Ironman 2

Two thumbs up. Way up. Like, hanging from ceiling from my thumbs to make them longer thumbs up. There is one problem though, and it's a worrying trend I've been seeing. It goes something like this: 2 hours of build-up, 20 minutes of action. So Ironman 2 had about an hour and a half of comedy (and some actually touching moments of mortality) and then 20 minutes of action. There's only a few other actions scenes, which I'll list if you don't mind the spoilers:

- The Monaco racing scene (3-5 minutes. Fun fact: The Monaco track is so dangerous that if it were proposed today, it wouldn't be accepted. The only reason people race there is it's been grandfathered into the circuit. Some things need to be grandfathered out, before people get hurt or killed)
- The fight between Ironman and War Machine (5 minutes).

Really? You couldn't have an awesome opening action scene? Don't get me wrong, you can have a great action movie without an opening action scene (Die Hard takes a good 30 minutes to fire a gun. If someone watched the first 25 minutes, they'd think it was a drama about John McClean trying to sort out his marital problems). But if you have less than 10 minutes of action before the climax starts, you may want to rethink things.

Of course, they fix it by adding a lot of comedy, so that was good. And the climax was pretty awesome, and we get to see Scarlett Johansson in black leather ("Yowsa" I might say if I were from the 50's) so all in all, two thumbs up.