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* WARNING - Spoiler Alert!!!
The first Iron Man film was such an unexpected surprise and very entertaining film, we
all wanted more – and soon. And so the filmmakers wasted no time in making the sequel,
and in 2010 ‘Iron Man 2’ hit the screens.
It’s been about six months since the events of the first
story, and the whole world knows Tony Stark is Iron Man. This creates legions
of fans for him, as he makes ‘appearances’ at special events as Iron Man,
casually exiting his mechanical shell to reveal his second suit, made by Giorgio
Armani. As weapons are no longer his business, he launches the Stark Expo in
the Flushing Meadows area of New York city.
The people are treated to a futuristic mini-city that will change the world,
according to Stark. The general public love the man in the flying suit, but no one person
can have all those fans without making a few enemies.
The US
military want Stark to hand over his suit so they can basically steal the
technology he invented for their own purposes. Stark, ever the proud and
integral man refuses to hand over his creation. Meanwhile, in the shadows of far Eastern Europe,
a man sits hunched over a device, working on it with total precision. His walls
are covered in articles and newspaper clippings, covering stories of
Stark the business man and Stark the superhero. We soon find out this basement
engineer is Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke); the son of a man who used to work with
Tony’s father, Howard Stark. Ivan’s father was deported to the Soviet
Union for trying to make money from the Stark brand of technology,
and died in poverty. Ivan wants revenge.
While Stark is attending (and taking part in) a car race in Monaco,
Ivan shows up to crash the party. Armed with whips made of electricity, Ivan
walks out onto the track, smashes Starks car to smithereens and picks a fight.
Luckily, Stark keeps a spare Iron Man outfit in a suitcase – which turns into
his suit and fits onto him in seconds. Stark takes Ivan down and he’s locked
up.
Upon returning to America,
Stark starts to doubt himself as a hero. This is when Nick Fury, (the
mysterious man dressed in black we met at the end of Iron Man) shows up to
“recruit” Stark. S.H.I.E.L.D. wants to really move on putting together their “team”,
and Stark has been picked as their first soldier. The billionaire is reluctant,
so Fury incorporates the assistance of Natalie Rushman, who is also secretly an
assassin called ‘Black Widow’. She’s sexy, mysterious and knows how to persuade
any man… including Stark. While he battles with this, retreating into the
isolation of his massive mansion, Ivan has been broken out of jail by an
industrious defense contractor named Hammer. He resources Ivan’s engineering
gifts to build him an army of robots, which Hammer will sell to the military.
* TIE IN TO THE AVENGERS – The scene at the end of the
credits that hints at what is still to come, is a short moment in this case and
doesn’t give too much away. A car drives down a long, desert road. As it comes to
a stop we have a close-up shot of the license plate, which tells us its from New
Mexico. Out of the car steps Agent Coulson, who
figures more prominently in Iron Man 2. He looks down into a large crater where
lots of people in hard-hats and car after car arrive at the site. Taking out
his mobile, Agent Coulson dials a number then speaks, “Sir…we found it”.
In the centre of the crater is a large hammer, lodged in the ground. END OF
SCENE *
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