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While I’m not going to argue that it’s the greatest movie ever, it’s darn good. There seems to be some valid criticism that it loses some steam in the second half. If a movie’s working for me it’s pretty easy for me to get swept along so it really didn’t bother me, but in retrospect I can see people’s point. However one of the reasons I’ve seen reviewers give for this loss of momentum is that Tony Stark losses his moral focus. That when he halts the weapons production of Stark Industries he’s  turning his back on his country by not providing the arms she needs. Then sort of willy nilly he deciedes to use this suit he’s perfecting more out of obsession to perfection than anything else to go out and play superhero. As a big fan of things that make a lot of noise and go boom if I got this vibe it would have soured the movie for me. I maybe engaging in a bit of projection here but that was not the read I got of  Tony Stark at all. True he suspended weapons production at Stark Industries and this may be nit-picking but I think he even said production would be “suspended pending a review” which I took to mean he was going to clean house, find out how the weapons were failing into the wrong hands, fix the distribution problems and then start production back To my way of thinking disruption in the supply of weapons caused by this suspension would be enough to frighten skittish investors and upset Rhodes and the military. I may be on thin ice here as I can see there are moments in the film that seem to contradict this but there’s enough there to sustain, for me anyway, this interpretation. Regardless that’s the interpretation I’m going with because ceding this point would really knock the film down several pegs for me.