It was good, except the villain.

Rating: 8/10 (6 June 2013)

First off, I felt that what they did to the Mandarin was terrible. The entire concept of The Mandarin is that he is Asian. So when I first saw the trailer and saw Ben Kingsly, I was worried. But then I realized that He was a perfect face for the villain. Then they messed him all up with making him the scientist who was the head of AIM. The leader of AIM wasn't even that special in the fact that everyone in his organization had the same power as him.
Then came the Extremis power that everyone had. If the power were controlled by that little spot in the brain that they explained about in the movie then, theoretically, if you destroyed that spot in their brain then that spot would not be able to tell the rest of the body to repair itself, right? That in itself was a fail in my opinion.
That was it for what I really didn't like about the movie, other than a few other instances of the same sort that I won't ramble on about.
Now on to the positives. The movie was very well made and the acting, as always, was superb. Just seeing John Favreau with a mullet and some crazy '90's facial hair was worth it. I like how they had Tony Stark suffer from PTSD; I just wish that they would have elaborated more on that.
I give it a 9/10 because I didn't like that Mandarin. But everything else in it was excellent. If your a hard core Comic fan you will hate it as well, but it has a good balance of action and story line.
I hope that this review was satisfactory, it was my first time so I do apologize if I make no sense sometimes.