Something Explodes!!! (again)

Rating: 6/10 (5 May 2013)

I swear, the plots of these films get crazier and crazier. Who cares though, when you have Robert Downey Jnr's ability to diffuse every tense situation with an irrelevant one-liner. Does this guy EVER worry? As for Gwyneth Paltrow, life is good... she earns almost as much as the guy playing the title character... for a small fraction of the screen time. Reminds me of Judi Dench winning an Oscar for portraying Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare In Love... despite only gracing us with her presence for just eight minutes. Nice work if you can get it...
BAM. SLAM. WHACK. SQUEAK. (Okay, I made that last one up). The movie is one big noise from beginning to end, with plenty of stuff getting blown up real good and a final battle with so many automated robot suits it resembles a cut scene from a Transformers film. This puts it above the rather dull part 2, but a shade below the more plot and character orientated numero uno. Highlight for me was Ben Kingsley's performance as the dim-witted 'terrorist' who loves his beer and football. Well, don't we all? The summer season starts here... 6/10