Not the best Iron Man movie yet, but enjoyable.

Rating: 7/10 (28 April 2013)

Realistically, I give it a 6/10. It wasn't the best Iron Man movie to date. Optimistically, I would go to 7/10 due to the pretty unreal graphics and 3D animation overall. That was pretty spectacular.
Now, for the movie itself, I went to watch it with a few friends of mine and even though we really laughed, along with everybody else in the room, there was this big gap, as it was not satisfying enough.
Firstly, I would like to point out the fact that Tony Stark in this film, does almost nothing new and exciting. I mean, he is IRON MAN, give him an idea, give him and epiphany to build something! Something that is exciting and more 'badass' than his previous inventions. Give him something to show off, as well as to show Tony to invent/build something from scratch, like he did in Iron Man 2 with the new element, where they also didn't give us enough information.
Secondly, as I only have two main concerns for this movie, is about character development. Roughly speaking, what they implemented in this movie was the following: 'Here is the bad guy, take him on'. I was like 'Huh?'. The movie lacks character growth way too much. They just gave Iron Man a villain out of NOWHERE, literally, and told him to fight him. Where did this guy even come from? What's his background? Why does he fit in this movie? Any goal? Purpose? Even a plan? That would seem nice, really. And what about this 'Extremis' drug/virus concept? What does it even do specifically? From my point of view, ladies and gentlemen, all I got from that, is that they developed a new drug to turn humans into fire- breathing dragons. That's it. And the fact that they use their body heat to melt other objects and have a tremendous increase in physical strength? What does that even tell us?
Overall, there were too many gaps in this movie. They should allow the characters to develop more and give the audience a goal that the villain is trying to achieve, with a reason and an explanation for this 'Extremis' virus. Also, as I mentioned above, give something to Tony Stark to build. We all loved the fact that Iron Man/Tony Stark is a 'mechanic' but we didn't get to see him actually BUILD something exciting. Nevertheless, the humor was there and it was quite the humor, I got to say. The 3D animation was just...outstanding.
To conclude for now, I simply wish they stopped butchering films that could actually make the best movies in the recent years, in the way they did with Iron Man 3 and many others beforehand.
Rated: 7/10.