It's sloppy and it drags, even with ambitious action sequences in Sokovia, and struggles to build Ultron's disdain for humanity. Ultron has a lot of good moments but is not overall a good movie. What we do get is a lot of the big green guy getting angry, which may have been cool in 2008 but pales compared to the visual effects that followed. We don't watch him fall in love with Betty (Liv Tyler), because he already is. Since it's not an origin story, we don't get to watch Edward Norton as Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk he already is. Sure, it's part of the MCU canon, but The Incredible Hulk was so aggressively meh that its title character got recast and was only made palatable by The Avengers. There's still a long road before this is the Tony we see in Endgame, but it's too slow on that path. We meet Black Widow, but not without some classic 2010 misogyny, which is the root problem with Iron Man 2 the first film was all about Tony's growth as a person, and the second doesn't let him mature nearly as much.
Iron Man 2 (2010)Ī tepid followup to the sleek brilliance of Iron Man, the sequel gives us a sinister yet funny Mickey Rourke but does the franchise no favors with its creative decisions. With so much to choose from, how do the movies stack up? To celebrate the release of Avengers: Endgame, we've updated our ranking of all the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel started its multi-phase movie takeover in 2008, and since then has shelled out dozens of movies and now TV shows about Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, the Hulk, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel – and sometimes all of them, as with Avengers: Endgame.
We've grown used to a lot of things in the past decade-plus, with one of the best being big-budget, high-quality superhero movies.
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