A little disappointed

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2015)

I was a teeny weeny bit disappointed with this after having seen the previous movie in the series. Whereas Iron Man 2 is a light-hearted affair, Iron Man 3 tries to be (a little bit) more sinister and gritty and I felt as a result it fell a little wide of the mark.
Robert Downey Jr is still excellent as Iron Man and there are still plenty of genuinely funny moments. It's the bad guys that let this down for me. Iron Man 2 went for a mad, bad, caricature of a bad guy that provided a perfect foil to Downey Jr's quirky Iron Man. In Iron Man 3, they went for a genius sinister scientist type that probably suited a James Bond move more than this.
Still, a good showpiece finale made it largely worth it.