#Iron man 2 bad guy movie#

whiz kid and the scion of a family whose company makes and sells high-tech weaponry. Tony is a media celebrity, a former M.I.T. We catch up with Tony Stark in dusty Afghanistan, where he is enjoying a Scotch on the rocks in the back of an armored American military vehicle. It is not quite the real world, but itвЂ™s a bit closer than Gotham or Metropolis. (I note that there is one sharp, subversive surprise right at the very end.) In вЂњIron ManвЂќ it all plays out more or less as expected, from the trial-and-error building of the costume to the climactic showdown, with lots of flying, chasing and noisemaking in between. Those are the rules of the genre, as unbreakable as the pseudoscientific principles that explain everything (An arc reactor! Of course!) and the Law of the Bald Villain.

There should also be a skeptical but supportive friend. The hero must flex and furrow his brow the bad guy must glower and scheme the girl must shriek and fret. The film benefits from a script (credited to Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway) that generally chooses clever dialogue over manufactured catchphrases and lumbering exposition, and also from a crackerjack cast that accepts the filmmakersвЂ™ invitation to do some real acting rather than just flex and glower and shriek for a paycheck.

#Iron man 2 bad guy movie#

Or at least В— since it certainly has its problems В— a superhero movie thatвЂ™s good in unusual ways. This summer those guys are all in sequels or redos, so Iron Man (a Marvel property not to be confused with the Man of Steel, who belongs to DC and whoвЂ™s taking a break this year) has the advantage of novelty in addition to a seasonal head start.ДЄnd вЂњIron Man,вЂќ directed by Jon Favreau (вЂњElf,вЂќ вЂњZathuraвЂќ), has the advantage of being an unusually good superhero picture. And yet in some ways the glut of anti-evil crusaders with cool costumes and troubled souls takes the pressure off of вЂњIron Man,вЂќ which clanks into theaters today ahead of Hellboy, Batman and the Incredible Hulk. The world at the moment does not suffer from a shortage of superheroes.