Tony Stark embarks on a 'meh' adventure with silly villains

Rating: 6/10 (2 September 2013)

Hooray for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, for bringing us great movies such as The Incredible Hulk, Tha Avengers and the Iron Man movies. However, the third installment of Iron Man is not on par...
The movie has a convoluted plot involving a Fire Zombie Virus, that is spread among war veterans by a guy who had been stood up by Tony Stark in the nineties and now wants to take over the world or something. Also, Tony Stark is suffering from PTSS because being an Avenger scared him so much. This is an issue that will not get resolved in a proper manner, it just ends with the movie. For some reason, War Machine could not be called War Machine anymore. Plus, Tony Stark has a gazillion suits that function independent from him. And Pepper dies but she doesn't die. And then there's the Mandarin, who isn't the Mandarin. The ending is particularly weird. Tony Stark stops being Iron Man - destroys all of his suits, has his impossible to remove shrapnel removed from his heart, and tells in voice-over that he IS Iron Man.
Does this make any sense to you? Well, it is Iron Man 3 in a nutshell. A lot of stuff that is either too far-fetched or too ridiculous to keep the suspension of disbelief up. Robert Downey Junior is okay in this movie, as is Gwyneth Paltrow. But the rest of the cast is fairly not up for the job or their parts are redundant. One exception on this is Sir Ben Kingsley. His performance is really what is saving the movie, both before and after the infamous 'twist'.
Kingsley's acting plus the fact that it's still an Iron Man movie is what makes the movie somewhat digestible - but the fans deserve better.