I had high hopes for this movie

Rating: 5/10 (18 June 2013)

When I first saw the trailers for iron man 3, I thought the movie looked great. I can easily say that I was looking forward to this movie. When it first started off, I thought it was pretty good. One of the things I don't usually like about these superhero movies in how cheesy they can be. Being a comic book junkie, I find I like the movies better when they are grittier and more realistic (dark knight,amazing Spider-Man, XM first class, etc.) I can say that at least for the first half, iron man 3 is the darkest of the IM movies. So yeah, I was enjoying the movie. At around half way through it, I thought to myself," man they're gonna have to do something seriously stupid to screw this up now".....and they did. I'm not into spoilers so I'll just say this: if you are at all a fan of the iron man comics, you are going to hate this movie. They took one of the most iconic marvel villains and just ruined him. If you aren't a big fan of the old IM stuff, it probably won't bother you as much, but for me, it ruined this movie. I probably would've given this film a 4/10, but the acting was pretty good and there was a badass throw-down at the end which earned it a point.