Continuing my journey with my first born to the world of the MCU and getting to remember why it became so good almost two decades ago. Maybe if was getting judged these days, it probably didn't get so much love, but when judging it back in those days and maybe also in a retrospective look - it passes both tests successfully.

Tony Stark went out of the shadows and got the recognition as Iron Man, but now the potential enemies starts to grow within and from the outside. Evil force of a Russian scientist is getting real and activated with the inspiration of Iron's Man suit invention.

At the same time the judgment system is trying to regulate the potential rough Man of Iron and stick a mirror to his face, for him to understand he needs to share the information about his weapon to a proper institute, for research purpose and what not.

Tony and Pepper are getting spicy and we got Tony's recognition that he might not survive, due to his increasing power and the fact that this suit is sucking his life force. Sounds a lot, doesn't it? Well...it is. Several subjects for at least two movies get squeezed into one and though it is a lot of fun, and the action sequences are pretty polished, it is sometimes too much.

The chemistry between Robert Downey Jr. And Gwyneth Paltrow is of the chart. You can add his chemistry also with Don Cheadle and you get multiple collaborations, that made this movie fun to watch. Mickey Rourke is not bad as a villain, but is not being used enough. Sam Rockwell is missed as his depute of evil, but they both supply great performances and all supporting cast, with their cameo's performances.