Disappointing Start For Marvel

Rating: 6/10 (26 April 2013)

Came back yesterday from Iron Man 3 and overall, I have to say another disappointment for so far
The biggest mistake for me was The Mandarin character. I mean the guy was suppose to be some badass dude going out to rule the world but in here, he was nothing more than just some whinny loser who doesn't even do anything than just talk most of the time and where the heck were his famous 10 rings. Tony Stark was OK but I would really have liked to see more time screening for Iron Man rather than Tony Stark. Guy Pearce in my opinion was way stronger than Stark and if it wasn't for all those iron man suits showing up to him in the final battle (which I thought was kind of cool by the way), he would definitely have lost against Pearce. Another disappointment was the Iron Patriot who in my opinion didn't get a lot of screen time
The story however was quiet good. Its trying to show how Tony Stark can deal the problems that he gets himself in without the Iron Man armor. However, it did rise a lot of questions as well like why was the setting of this movie around Christmas but shown during Summer. Just didn't seem to fit
Another thing that was shockingly disappointing was that if Tony Stark was really a genius, then why did it took him 3 movies (including The Avengers) to figure on removing the arc reactor on his chest? Still, the action scenes did make up for some of my complains but I was still kind of disappointed