An Enhanced Super Hero Experience That Just Misses Being A Classic

Rating: 8/10 (17 January 2019)

5 May 2013. Enhanced with a decent and by now mainstream 3-D experience that still doesn't quite bring in the complete visceral experience and a subliminal psychological incorporation of the Jaws (1975) audience identification storyline that pulls on the American public's patriotism echoing the recent Olympus Has Fallen (2013) espionage-terrorist genre along with a huge enjoyable Ben Kingsley twist, this superhero action-thriller explodes on the screen. Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark's character continues it deepening layered personality, exposing more humiliation and humanism that Jennifer Garner's character reflected so well in Elektra (2005).
The movie is somewhat dependent on its technical photographic 3-D special effects for part of its presentation and it suffers somewhat in its lack of complete immersion into the clarity and focus on all its elements (either the technology is not quite there yet or more money and time needed to be expended), thus the rich density while enhanced doesn't quite match up with a movie such as Hugo (2011) for its qualitatively superior 3-D presentation.
Iron Man 3 continues to improve with its further inclusion in its storyline stronger emotional relational elements to balance the movie's action sequences offering this movie a more human component than say the more consistently fast-paced suspense ridden Speed (1994) or the tech-intelligent and slick sci fi thriller Déjà Vu (2006) though not as substantively strong or conflicted as found in Spiderman 2 (2004), Spiderman 3 (2007) or even The Incredibles (2004), Bolt (2008), or The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
The storyline is somewhat spoiled by its overly ambitious inclusion of cute lines and characters that reflect it attempt at audience identification with the everyman or everyboy characters in the movie from the over the top comedic television producer or the small town boy even though it might capture the enlarged audiences interest and appreciation of the movie. The Green Lantern (2011) excelled by incorporated instead an everyman as its principle character played by Ryan Reynold for the audience to identify as well as a much more subtle use of rich humor so as to avoid having to use secondary characters to obtain a similar effect or some more obvious and standard manipulation for laughter, The Green Lantern's entire movie was focused on the mass audience instead of the smaller elite population.