Is this the best MARVEL could come up with?

Rating: 2/10 (29 April 2013)

While RDJ, Ben Kingsley and Guy Pearce do a good job with their performances they are tied to a luck lustre script.
The plot is just lame and the action scenes are rubbish.
As others have noted I'm not sure why Iron Man's armour kept on falling to pieces versus the unconvincing villains he was facing when it did quite well against Thor and alien marauders.
And what was the point of introducing the Iron Patriot armour? I sincerely hope Rhodie isn't going to replace Iron Man in Avengers 2 because his character is poorly developed and pretty useless.
Oh and thanks for destroying Iron Man's greatest foe The Mandarin. MARVEL what were you thinking? I had thought that IM3 might have introduced the infinity gems which would have set up a confrontation with Thanos in Avengers 2...but obviously not.
Also an opportunity lost to introduce a new female character who could join the Avengers...perhaps Carol Danvers? Iron Man taking on the Kree/Skrulls would definitely have been better than the boring unconvincing villains in this offering.
I am presuming this is the end of the IM franchise and probably just as well if this is the best they can come up with. Nobody is expecting a superhero movie script to rival MacBeth but this was just poor. I hope MARVEL haven't fallen into their reoccurring trap of going for quantity over quality and the next Thor movie is a worthy sequel... and surely Cpt. America Winter Soldier couldn't be any worse than the first one?