Iron Man 3 Movie Review

Iron Man 3 Movie Review

Short and Simple: I HATED this movie.

Review Opinion
By PeterParker1991 - May 11, 2013 05:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Iron Man 3

What is it about Three-quels these days? Spiderman 3, X-3... they both stunk and now Iron Man 3 is also atop that list and I was hoping that it wouldn't be. Okay, being a huge comic fan I have a lot of issues with this movie. First, there's hardly any Iron Man in a movie that's supposed to be called Iron Man 3, yet all we see is Stark for 95 percent of the damn movie. I just have to say that this movie was poorly done and I left the theatre pissed. I was ticked. I haven't felt that way since the movies I listed above were in theatres. Considering how Iron Man 3 was the first film after the Avengers, which was amazing, how come it turned out to be a piece of crap? The Mandarin was a joke. He's Iron Man's Joker and he was made into a friggin' joke. Iron Patriot had no action scenes. AIM somehow jumps his ass, steals his armor and he doesn't even help Stark in the final battle which also sucked cause Stark once again spent half the time out of the damn armor.

What the hell was that? The kid was soooo annoying and pointless. He - - he makes a threat to the fake Mandarin, which was stupid on his part especially since Whiplash nearly killed him in the second movie on the damn race track after he unveiled his identity. You think he would have learned his lesson. Then he states his address on television and instead of preparing for something bad to happen he's of course acting like a moron and his house gets blown up. Wow. If that was Batman those choppers would have been blown up before they got in range. I mean hello! Stark is supposed to be a genius. What genius in their right mind would threaten someone on television, give out his/her address and not expect something to happen. And then of all the damn armors he got in his armory he summons the Mark 42. Its not built for combat. The damn thing barely had any friggin power and... I - - I just don't know. The movie was a mess. A complete mess.

The main thing that pissed me off... was the Mandarin. What the heck was that? Made one of the coolest villains in the Marvel Universe into a drunken actor. WTF? Almost as stupid as making Galactus into a cloud. Wow, Marvel. Just wow. I didn't think it was possible to sink any lower than turning the devourer of worlds into a freaking cloud. Mandarin has the Ten Rings, which are supposed to give him his mystical powers. Magic has already been introduced thanks to Thor and it really wouldn't have been hard to adapt into an Iron Man film at all especially since Avengers also had elements of magic in it too. Geez, man. On a side note if they wanted to kill Pepper they should have just killed her. Instead they made her into the next Crouching Tiger. And where the hell was SHIELD? You'd think the "super spies would be watching the Avengers on their solo adventures. But no. Fury and friends spent all that damn time getting the team together and where they at when Stark is getting his house blown out of the damn sky? That's just pathetic. Just like this movie.

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tasman71
tasman71 - 5/11/2013, 9:29 PM
Gee, what would you do if someone as close to you as Happy was to Tony got put in a coma! His anger got the best of him. We would all likely do the same.

SHIELD was busy getting their TV show ready.

As for the rest of your issues, OPEN your mind and read this: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Mindworld/news/?a=79268
sameoldthing
sameoldthing - 5/12/2013, 5:46 AM
Yea..movie has serious flaws.
One you forgot to mention..Pepper killing the bad guy.
So Iron Man gets ass beat then saved by the girl...reminds me of,yes Dark Knight Rises when Catwoman kills Bane after Batman gets ass beat down.
Sooooo annoying.
ChrisEl
ChrisEl - 5/13/2013, 7:32 AM
Yeah, not only did I hate this movie, but I was personally offended by it. Shane Black was entirely unconcerned with the fact that he was making a CMB/Super hero movie. Rather, what we got was a Lethal Weapon Sequel. I understand that Lethal Weapon type movies are his forte, but he should understand that when approaching an Iron Man film, he should make an Iron Man film. Black didn't give a damn that this was a super hero movie, and he didn't care about the fan base at all.
In addition to this, the Mandarin twist was just nauseating. Here black had the opportunity to develop an extremely interesting character. Even if the Mandarin had no powers, and was merely a human terrorist, the character could have been sooooo complex. Instead, we get the ridiculous and needless twist. ughhhhhhhhhhh.
Finally, Black just disregarded everything that happened in the past movies. If Stark could have had the shrapnel surgically removed, why didn't he do so in Iron Man 2. You know, the one where the arc reactor was killing him? What about Stark's whole conversation with Banner about the reactor? Seriously.
All I can conclude is that Black does not care about the character or mythos of Iron Man. Nor does he care about the fans. What he did was selfishly make another movie to suit his own tastes.
I really wanted to love this movie. I was extremely excited to see it. How unfortunate this turned out. In the end, Iron Man 2 was a much better film than Iron Man 3, because Iron Man 2 was actually Iron Man movie.
JayTopStix
JayTopStix - 5/13/2013, 8:40 AM
I loved this movie. I found it a writing masterpiece. I guess we have really diffrent taste in films. I was confused with the road they took the mandarin, but ended up loving him. Besides they can make him badass again with yet another twist.
PLUSH
PLUSH - 5/13/2013, 10:56 AM
The Mandarin twist ruined the movie for me.
PeterParker1991
PeterParker1991 - 5/13/2013, 12:22 PM
@tasman: Well, I for one wouldn't give away my freaking address on public television and allow my damn house to get blown out of the sky. Anger issues or not that was just plain stupid and then he acted like nothing was going to happen
TheRambunctiousRamboy
TheRambunctiousRamboy - 5/13/2013, 3:45 PM
I enjoyed watching Iron Man 3. But I wish Iron Patriot/Warmachine would have had some real action scenes. I also wish There was more Iron Man action scenes. Didn't really like the arc reactor removed out of nowhere it seemed like.
ISleepNow
ISleepNow - 6/1/2013, 12:14 PM
@Tasman71 What he would have done if he had half a brain would have been to get together with shield to hunt down whomever was responsible, not make him and his girlfriend a target.
PeterParker1991
PeterParker1991 - 8/15/2013, 8:11 AM
^^ What he said
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