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military's liaison to its private weapons contractor, Hammer. Rhodey's friendship with Tony is in particularly bad shape, as Rhodey also serves as the U.S. Both of them have had it with Tony's capricious and often careless ways, which grow even worse when fueled by alcohol. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes ( Don Cheadle, succeeding and surpassing predecessor Terrence Howard).

Meanwhile, Tony is dealing privately with a very distressing personal matter, one which colors all his dealings with both his assistant Pepper Potts ( Gwyneth Paltrow) and pal Col. Vanko's schemes eventually fold into those of Justin Hammer, and he's soon brought stateside to aid the evil industrialist. Vanko is essentially a cross between the comics' Crimson Dynamo and Whiplash, but this composite character approach succeeds in creating a villain who is visually arresting and also legitimately complements Tony's story arc. Ivan is also a scientist albeit one who has spent nearly two decades in a gulag and is now badass enough that he can kill professionally trained goons with his bare hands who has developed his own makeshift variation of the Iron Man tech. Ivan, who is never referred to as Whiplash during the film, blames the Starks for the suffering his family endured during the Cold War and now wants Tony to pay for it. That enemy is Ivan Vanko ( Mickey Rourke), the son of a Russian scientist who was once a colleague of Tony's dad, Howard Stark (played by Mad Men's John Slattery as a sort of cross between Howard Hughes and Walt Disney). But what he doesn't know is that at that moment an old enemy of his family's is hard at work in Russia on his own version of Stark Industries' Arc technology. What if their enemies developed such tech? Tony dismisses their fears, saying that any such advances are at least 20 years away.

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The government doesn't like the idea of a private citizen possessing such potentially destructive technology and wants in on how to make it. Senator ( Garry Shandling) during a televised hearing. Tony brazenly shows up both Hammer and a U.S. Tony is more arrogant than ever, and his ego - to swipe a line from Top Gun - is writing checks that his body can't cash. government wants his tech, as does Stark's rival Justin Hammer ( Sam Rockwell, playing him as Tony's villainous doppelganger), who has succeeded Tony as the U.S.

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Tony is definitely paying the piper for his glib declaration at the end of the first movie that he is Iron Man. In many ways, Iron Man 2 is an argument for a superhero maintaining his/her secret identity.

Iron Man 2 doesn't always successfully balance all of these moving parts, but considering how wildly it could have gone off the rails (think Schumacher's Batman sequels), it's a significant and highly entertaining accomplishment on the part of Marvel Studios and director Jon Favreau.Д¬ontrary to what AC/DC says the band of choice in the Iron Man films hell is a bad place to be, especially if you're Tony Stark. You should be happy to know Iron Man 2 more or less wins its battle with 'sequelitis,' managing to successfully squeeze a hodgepodge of storylines and characters into one two-hour adventure while still keeping the narrative focus sharply on Tony Stark (played once again with unbridled aplomb by Robert Downey, Jr.). Please be advised that this review contains some spoilers.

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