2010 · adventure · action · sci-fi
Iron Man 2
Directed by Jon Favreau2h 4m2010
With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.
Our read: Iron Man 2 (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive adventure · action · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme adventure / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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