A Huge Iron Mandarin Mistake!

Rating: 5/10 (3 June 2016)

The main beef I have with this film surrounds the directorial choice to use the Mandarin as a total foil instead of the true antagonist. Perhaps a candidate for one of the worst ideas EVER by the MCU! Obviously the director had little affinity to the original Iron Man story, or he would never have attempted such a thing. And yet I thought they picked THE PERFECT ACTOR to play the Mandarin too! Such a disappointment that they wasted his talent, especially since the antagonist (Aldrich Killian) was a laughable substitute with a nearly spoof-like backstory and shallow motivations. To add insult to injury, they write the plot where Tony spends basically the whole movie out of the suit, and then has him totally destroy all his remaining suits at the end for some fireworks. Overall, I'd give it 5 exploding Iron Man suits out of 10.