The Iron Man sequel did not meet in my opinion the expectations, and that probably because we already liked so much the first movie. To be fair it was a great action-movie, not slow-paced, with good visuals and that captured the essence of Iron Man but other than that it just missed something.

The storyline is pretty much simple and predictable but since it's an Iron Man movie we couldn't expect of some mind-twisting story but it could have been better. I mean if the story was more complex it would have been more explosive and the character inter-relationship could have been built a little better but since it was not than it's just ... the regular comic book Iron Man movie. Besides that the visuals were NOT that great as people might think. The editing of the scenes was done well but the way some of the scenes were captured especially the ones where is involved flying like in the beginning where you have to really stare at the screen to realize what Iron Man is doing because the scenes are too quickly cut. The visuals are good but not that good I mean for a 2010 movie I was expecting something better, not Avatar type but neither to be a little bit over that G.I. Joe bullsh*t. Besides that the cinematography is good and offers some nice stand-up captures and scenes.

The acting of the movie was If I think better than the first one. I mean Robert Downey Jr. played very well the extravagant and cocky Tony Stark, Mickey Rourke offered a very good display as the Russian, Ivan, you have Samuel L Jackson as Nick Furry and a very good performance by Sam Rockwell who plays Justin Hammer.

The thing I was 10 minutes cheering for and 10 minutes disappointed about was the music used in this movie. The one composed I liked it but some of it was just used wrong...

At the end of the day this is a kick-ass movie, it;s a great action flick, with jokes, explosions, nice ladies, very good acting and with all the douchey scenes (and YES! it has douchy scenes) it was very entertaining. As to say if it was better than the first I don't know... It depends on how you see it and what you expect from an Iron Man movie, I liked the first one much more because the dialogue was more interesting and here it was full of jokes and stuff not to mention the character development which was better in the first than in this one but this one is like I said, a great movie to get me and you entertained and definitely worth the money.