Epic, epic, epic.... disappointment!!!! Save your money!

Rating: 1/10 (3 May 2013)

To begin with, I really enjoyed the first two Iron Man movies. I'm also an avid comic book fan. However, I do understand that things can't be exactly the same in the movies as they were in the comics, and I see why, it's pretty self-explanatory. What they did in this movie was just plain STUPID. Spoiler alert, but truth be told the only thing that can be spoiled is disappointment. The first, I think hour of the movie was actually going well. They present the "mandarin" (notice the quotations), we don't see much of him, but we see enough to think "damn, this guy's no joke". They set him up as this ruthless terrorist, and of course you think he's the main villain. You're wrong, and I was wrong, it turns out the character that Ben Kingsley plays is actually a drunken idiot actor (yes, an actor playing an actor) named trevor who was hired by the real main villain i.e. Guy Pearce's character to make these stupid movie clips to send to the media that show 'the mandarin' committing terrorist acts, and that is NO JOKE. Now I know that The Mandarin isn't super well-known, and that Iron Man doesn't have a particularly revered cast of bad guys, but neither does The Hulk, and they managed to make The Abomination pretty awesome in The Inredible Hulk. The character Yinsen; who helped Tony Stark make his first armor in the first movie, makes a small appearance in a flashback, then he is completely not even heard of again. Now I think it would have been pretty cool to see how Yinsen was involved with The Mandarin, since he was captured by The Ten Rings terrorist group (Mandarin wore ten rings by the way), and then maybe have Tony Stark go back to fight the Ten Rings camp and discover their true leader; The Mandarin, something along those lines. Something that involved the Ten Rings, Yinsen (since he did have a cameo), and of course THE REAL MANDARIN. The fact that they made him look so menacing at first and then reveal him to be a hoax is extremely tasteless, whether or not you were looking forward to The Mandarin, what they did was STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah, and plot holes galore. You might even notice how they're trying to emulate The Dark Knight Rises, if you've seen TDKR that is (TDKR was awesome though). Another threequel bites the dust!