Goofy writing sinks this Iron Man outing.

Rating: 4/10 (18 January 2014)

The short version of the plot is: Tony has PTSD and has spent all his time building autonomous armor suits. Mandarin attacks Tony's house after Tony taunts him with his Malibu address. Tony goes into hiding and rebuilds, then attacks Mandarin's Miami estate. The final confrontation occurs on a ship where Mandarin has the President captive, and Mandarin plans to kill him.
This film had problems in the departments of plot/logical consistency and tone. Some examples: The armor suits became mysteriously flimsy at the writer's whim. The writers also injected awkward comedy lines which didn't work. Tony's armor pieces flew across the country at between Mach 5 and Mach 10, which seemed a stretch even with the idea of flying armor parts. He decided to blow up his suits at the end of the film as a mechanism to provide fireworks, I suppose. The bad guys ability to heat things somehow disabled the mechanized armor, but only when it was convenient. I could go on.
What we ended up with was a unsatisfying, sometimes strange, and ultimately disappointing Iron Man experience. I'm not sure how this script got green-lighted, but it needed to stay in the oven a while longer, if not scrapped altogether.