Iron Man 2 (2010)

People thought this was one of the biggest early hiccups in MCU history after Thor: The Dark World. This movie is not bad and I think I have an idea of how they could have done it better. Keep the military wanting the armor part. Keep Tony’s bucket list YOLO stuff. When Rhodey takes the suit, have Hammer reverse engineer the arc reactor and attempt to to make his own Iron Legion. When showing the suits at the expo, he calls out for Tony to go toe to toe with him. Tony tries to do the right thing and talk it out but Hammer being embarrassed by his early suit fails attacks Tony and hell ensues. Hammer tells his software to go into remote override and every suit kicks out their driver and every suit comes at Tony who can barely hold out and then Rhodey comes and saves Tony’s butt and they defeat all the drones. Hammer deactivates Rhodey's suit that now has Hammer tech instead of Stark tech. Tony and Hammer go manno y manno. Hammer starts off hot and Tony is on his knees, Hammer pulls out the ex-wife bullet and fires at Tony but it doesn’t do crap. Tony looks at Hammer and say’s “My turn” and shoot a chest repulsor at full blast from his new reactor sending Hammer flying and the suit is immobile due to the arc reactor being destroyed. Hammer is arrested and the day is won…so long story short, get rid of Ivan and focus on Hammer and his trying to be better than Tony. While hindsight is 20/20, the only positive thing this movie did was expand the universe a bit with Fury, Coulson, and Widow. I didn't love Whiplash as the villain which is why I would have liked Hammer to be the main villain and try to overcome the embarrassment of the hearing at the beginning of the movie. Downey makes the movie we did get at least enjoyable.

Story - 14%

Characters - 13%

Pacing - 16%

Spectacle - 16%

Entertainment - 15%

Total score: 74%

Grade scale:

90%-100% = must watch

80%-89% = solid, but could be better

70%-79% = Not terrible, watch if the characters or story interests you

60%-69% = only watch for completionist reasons

0%-59% = just skip it, I find the positives and they don't exist here