Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (24 April 2013)

If you're going to see Iron Man 3, expect it to be very much unlike its two predecessors in terms of acting, story and development. It seems as though the writers forgot how to make an Iron Man movie and left us with a product that is far from what it could have been.
RDJ, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Kingsley and all the other actors put a lot of effort into making the plot believable, yet there is only so much a stellar cast can do with the messy, overly simplified and predictable script that they were given. Even RDJ's antics seems forced and unfunny at times. Story-wise, there's not much to it and it's safe to say they could have at least tried to make the villains somewhat menacing instead of hilarious and shallow.
The action sequences will compensate, right? Wrong. Even here, the movie manages to not make any sense. In Avengers 2 or Iron Man 4 (should there be one), it'd be great if the writers could agree on exactly how (in)destructible the suits are so as to not create rather sizable differences in 1 movie.
All in all, if this weren't an Iron Man movie it would be a sub-par action movie that nobody would really care about. As it stands, it's a sub-par Iron Man movie and people will see it. If you do, either lower your expectations or prepare to be disappointed.