Truly Awful

Rating: 1/10 (19 March 2014)

'Iron Man 3' has two highlights - Ms Paltrow in an Iron Man suit and seen with awesome red devil eyes. The rest of the movie is rubbish, pathetically attempting to be 'oh so serious' as Tony Stark tries to to work his way out of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from 'Avengers Assemble' action in New York. And doesn't he make a meal ( a very pathetic one ) out of it. By the end Robert Downey Jnr looks bored stiff and we have long lost interest! Again this is one of those blockbusters that has to have a CGI action scene whenever the writers/director thinks the audience is getting bored. The plot is a tired retread of the lunatic mad disappointed scientist (Guy Pierce) trying to bring the USA to its knees with a fake terrorist (amusingly played by Ben Kingsley). While Tony Stark is wandering around the Mid West (like Superman when he lost his powers!) trying to find answers and himself. The plot requires you not to understand who the bad zombie-like 'blow yourself up' terrorists are or what are the limits of their capabilities - because some can be killed and others magically regenerate! Yes, this film is lazily written, putridly directed, and barely acted, with an honourable exception made for Gwyneth Paltrow, who obviously demanded more of a part of the action. Ah well. The final blow out and blow up spectacular finale with umpteen dozen flying metal suits fighting numerous explosive zombies is just sheer and utter c***. And the film made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office - I despair.