Rating of
3/4
A decent finish to the Iron Man trilogy
Shawn - wrote on 05/05/13
From the standpoint of the MCU this was a very good building block toward phase 2. It looked great, there were plenty of tie-ins to the other franchises and the RDJ was great once again as Tony Stark. The main problem I have with this movie are the villains. Avoiding spoilers, this was one of the worst treatments of a mainstay villain I have ever seen. Until the movies, Iron Man had always been a B team superhero but one of the saving graces had been the Mandarin. He brought an aspect, magic, that had always rivaled Stark's scientific mind. I was hoping with the Avengers including aliens and Thor showing that magic could be done well in the movies that the mandarin would be the BA that he is in the comics but sadly I was left disappointed. This was better than 2 but falls short of the first go-around.
