The right mix...

Rating: 10/10 (16 November 2013)

IRON MAN THREE came as a pleasant surprise: better than the second installment, it's a perfect blend of comic book super-heroics and Big screen sensibilities. Robert Downey is at his best. The writing helps. So do the fx, which are 100% believable. (Even seeing the "human chain" dangling over the Cape Fear River when the movie was being shot here didn't prepare me for the sequence: it's mind-boggling.) This was one of the few times that watching the movie was as much fun as reading the comic books. Everyone involved deserves a pat on the back. The scene following the end credits was by far the funniest (and the best) of the "tag" scenes. (And Stan Lee's cameo- as a lecherous old man watching a bikini contest- was great.) Hollywood finally got one right...