Iron Man 3 Review

Well, here's my review of Iron Man 3. As the name suggests this is the 3rd installment in the Iron Man film series and sequel to The Avengers (in a way). Iron man is trying to get back to his daily routine as Iron Man. There's a flashback to show Tony doing the deed with a woman named Maya Hansen in 1999, who has a treatment to let people regenerate after deformities or injuries. This guy Aldrich Killian wants them to work with him and is supposed to meet up with Tony, who never shows. So now in the present the country is being threatened by a terrorist called The Mandarin. Iron man has PTSD from what happened during the Avengers and is building tons of different Iron Man suits. His security guy gets into an incident during a Mandarin attack and Tony threatens the Mandarin on live TV. This leads to his house being blown up, him in Tennessee and befriending a child.

This movie was BAD. I'd say this is the worst film Marvel has put out yet. The only saving grace could have been that the Iron Man suit is awesome but that's rarely seen either. The comedy in the movie was completely overbearing. It felt like a sitcom where after every sentence there was a joke, followed by forced studio laughter. It got very annoying after a while.

One of the worst parts were the choices made by the characters. I'm sure you've seen this image:

So the world knows who Iron Man is. He pays the price for this. Tony threatens the Mandarin, who knows Tony Stark has a history of going after terrorist organizations, and tells him to come find him, even gives him his address! Now I could see if after that he had his home surrounded by all those iron man suits he's been working on, had a radar to show low flying vehicles, and had some type of defense ready. Like missiles, guns, anything! Even some military presence since they know he will be attacked and he's still a civilian, Iron Man or not. NOPE, instead he just goes home and that's that. No defense, no preparation, no plan, nothing. So eventually he gets his home blown up. Some how those military grade helicopters can fly into NYC with no armed forces or even a police department noticing and intervening. I guess we should be glad the actual armed forces are competent in real life. 



The main villains were these people who became experiments and got the power to incinerate people along with strength and endurance. They were actually very weak villains. It's also mind boggling how they raise their body to such high temperatures that they illuminate yet their clothes don't burn.

 Killian's plan was also pretty confusing. His motives even more confusing. Tony Stark stands him up in 1999 and he gets so mad that after he builds a successful business, without needing Tony Stark, and a lavish life where he only got smarter and created scientific achievements, he makes a fake terrorist and kidnaps the President. THAT MAKES NO SENSE. A missile tot he chest and he would have been out, that's if the US Government gave a crap about these terrorists in the first place. The Iron Patriot suit, as cool as it was, did nothing. We didn't even get to see it fight! It got touched by some heat and shut down. Since when does extreme heat shut the suit down? Doesn't it have laser blasts in the palm of it's hands? Yet a touch shuts the whole suit down. However the suit can take blows, as evident by the previous films. So when the president is inside of it, so what if he fell. The suit would protect him.

The PTSD was just thrown in to tie it into The Avengers in some fashion. Iron Man met a God, fought him, joked with him and teamed up with him and WAS FINE. Yet all of a sudden seing different creatures that weren't Thor, who is also an alien, was too much for Stark to handle. He was kidnapped and held captive by terrorists and came out better than ever but a non-Thor alien gives him PTSD....sure.

The reveal of the Mandarin was disappointing. Not because it was different than the comics, but because that meant Killian, a poor excuse for a character with a grudge that makes no sense and a stupid plan, is the mastermind and that's just disappointing.

The final battle was about as ridiculous as it can get. The President in chains wearing a military grade suit THAT WORKS. Tony stark fighting fire people with his tons of unarmed suits that should have shown up half way through the movie. Looks like a big ploy to sell some toys and have a bunch of different ones to choose from!

Then the final showdown with Killian, who is beat up by Pepper! Here's a decision that makes no sense at all. This man has been hit by military grade armor. Yet Pepper hits him and they suspect that finished him off? Before even confirming he's dead, Tony blows up all his suits! Killian could have easily just blasted his head off since his line of defense was no more. But there's the even dumber aspect to all this! After these near indestructible beings have beaten armored suits, pepper hits Killian with a pipe and he dies? Maybe Tony should have just equipped himself with a stick and whacked Killian in the first place. Pepper also all of a sudden can fight and all this. Yes she got stronger and has powers, but she's still the same woman who stumbles around. I guess if it's convenient for its plot, or whatever you can call it in this case. Also, where were the police, or the military. The President of the United States is kidnapped and there's no military presence what-so-ever. Everyone was all sad when Colson "died" in The Avengers and it even inspired Captain America to fight the good fight. Yet everyone thinks Tony Stark is dead and no one gives a shit. Shield doesn't life a finger when the president is kidnapped. This is a shared universe, so when stuff on that grand of a scale happens and NO ONE shows up is just mind boggling.

The only redeeming quality the film could have had was cool Iron Man scenes, which it didn't even have that The character development was non-existent, and any attempts at changing a character was just horrible. So many things happened, or didn't happen, just to be convenient to its jumbled mess of a plot. There's so many plot holes it looks like the movie was a target in a shooting gallery. These plot holes were due to poor writing and poor directing. I can say it was a truly terrible film and it has no positive aspects.

.5/5 (Being Generous)