An Honest Review

Rating: 9/10 (13 November 2016)

This film breaks its viewing audience down into three categories.
1) The people who hate it because of how awfully it veered from the comic books. It's the MCU, you have to expect that, so most people tend to give the Mandarin thing a wide breath.
Sure, it was a disappointment, but not as big as fans make it out to be. It's the MCU, they are working in Feature Films not TV, you can't really make an epic villain out of anyone you know has to be knocked off and will never come back all in under 3 hours.
So, why not warp him to fit the plot? 2) The people that want Iron Man and not Stark. From reading the bad reviews one gets the impression that people hate this because it isn't ALL IRON MAN ALL THE TIME.
Stark isn't constantly suited up, and in fact, he wears it probably less than in any other movie.
So the lack of CGI Iron Man action is going to garner a lot of distaste in some viewers.
3) The people that like a balance between Stark and Iron Man, the story over action crowd.
Not that this installment doesn't have action, but the action revolves around Stark and not Iron Man. It's good, but it's a total Stark story and one that develops his character nicely. What Iron Man 2 lacked in heart, Iron Man 3 made-up for.
How are you going to like the movie? Well, that depends on who you are and how much you want to weigh one thing against the other. For Shane Black fans though, it totally works.