Satisfying us between Avenger movies

Rating: 6/10 (4 October 2013)

Ciaran: I found this movie very disappointing and very over-rated. For these reasons- one, it created secondary plots that were never tied up or even left open for say another movie, the CGI in this film is up to date. Another thing that makes this movie disappointing is the lack of seeing Tony Stark as Iron Man, instead we saw him as a anxiety suffering detached mechanic. I will give the film credit for the first half as it followed a good story and built on and up the characters. The film also managed to update Iron Man's arch-nemesis The Mandarin. In Iron Man 3 they made him a somewhat threatening terrorist. But after the twist of finding out that the great villain The Mandarin was just an actor and Killian, a researcher of bio-something is actually the mastermind. All in short terms i found this movie to be okay for the first half, but after the twist i felt that the movie took a turn for the worst. 6/10
Jacob: No movie is flawless. There are plot holes in lots of famous movies but the thing to consider is how entertaining the movie is (strictly from the entertainment factor) and consider the problems after the viewing. Iron Man 3 is an entertaining movie for the most part. The problems are not ones that you have to dig deep to find but they are very clear and appear very commonly in the last half of the film. The beginning is brilliant with setting the tone, characters and subplots. The subplots are actually dropped or changed (for the worse)in the later half of the film. Tony Stark's anxiety attacks are completely forgotten and not mentioned again. Tony gets rid of his arc heart contraption that you would think he would of gotten rid of in the first place. A Middle-Eastern terrorist who is set up to be mysterious and one of Tony's biggest threats. That terrorist turns out to be a pathetic actor and the real mastermind is Guy Pearce's character who basically has some sort of weird pathetic grudge against Tony. This is disappointing because this terrorist is built up so much and replaced with a shirtless, womanizing weirdo with fire powers. This isn't a clever twist and his it's eye-rolling moments. The Dark Knight Rises sort of worked with it's twist because it is unexpected and Bane is not just a fraud. Pearce's character is set up as one of the villains in the beginning of the film so him taking the antagonist's role wasn't that hard to predict. The fact that he used a false antagonist symbol to distract the people was a clever idea but the flip-side of that was not all that satisfying. There is another problem that is brought up: it may be a little too predictable. However, the action and special effects are great, the humour is great, the chemistry that Tony has with Pepper, his guard and a little kid is fun to watch. Overall, it's not terrible but really fun.