This is "Lethal Iron" With Tony Stark As Riggs and Rhodey as Murtagh

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2013)

Shane Black wrote the script - the dialogue is excellent. The budget was something north of $150-200million - it's on the screen, and 90% of the 3D works well with subtlety and not just in your face negative parallax.
So what's the problem? It's not about Iron Man anymore and Disney thought we wanted to watch two hours of "ah heck my suit's not working again" and turn these characters into a standard wisecracking action duo, or if they actually get to wear a suit of armour then they're R2-D2 and that suit will get smashed to bits because this is a hilarious running joke from the Avengers onwards. It got old after two hours in the Avengers but nope, here it is all over again.
The treatment of the villain might have been smart but more time should have been given over to Guy Pearce's excellent performance than just a simple flashback and cut to the present day. Then it would've been more believable than having his plans nearly succeed all over one single Christmas period, he's criminally underused and so are his non-super-powered henchmen.
The ending is also complete BS, trying to give some kind of patriotic flag wave about counter-terrorism and to some extent takes another leaf from Nolan's Batman films with regard to Stark.
All that Man of Steel has to do is to be about Superman without the relationship sub-plots getting in the way of the action and that will be the better film this summer out of the two. Anyone that disliked Iron Man 2, go back and watch that again because this is worse.