didn't live up to it's potential

Rating: 5/10 (23 July 2014)

I remember seeing the first trailer to this movie, and it looked like it was going to be darker and grittier than the first two films. It almost looked as if Christopher Nolan was making this movie. I was excited about how intense and dangerous the Mandarin looked, then I saw the movie. What a total joke. First of all, there's no way Happy would've survived that explosion, and why did the so called "Mandarin" have to be an actor pretending to be a villain? That was really dumb. I don't blame the actors for this movie being bad, I blame the writers for this one. Way to let us down Marvel. It's as if Marvel Studios got together, sat down and said, "Okay we made all this money from The Avengers, everyone loves Robert Downey Jr. Let's take all the horrible ideas we've had for previous Ironman films and throw it altogether into one huge suck-fest!" I understand that they wanted to show Tony Stark suffering from PTSD after the New York attack, but the other stuff wasn't needed. Also, I really was hoping for Pepper to die in this movie. Is that mean? I really don't think a stand alone Ironman movie can work anymore.