Rubbish...

Rating: 3/10 (29 April 2013)

Iron Man 3 is just a melting pot of a lot of plots in the comic books. It's pretty clear that the main goal was to introduce A.I.M., to use it later in other Marvel movies, but other than that, it's chaos.
Yes in the comic there's an arc with a villain capable of regenerating himself, and some human bombs. But not an army of fire breathing demons or something... Yes in the comic there is an arc where Tony Stark uses all his old armors, but they're not in autopilot, he has to pilot them himself, all at once, and that's what was brilliant. Here it's just for show, and it's ridiculous. Yes there is an Iron Patriot in the comic, but it's the Dark Avengers' version of Iron Man, with Norman Osborn in it, AKA the Green Goblin, when he was head of the new version of SHIELD after the Skrull disaster... Obviously they couldn't do this, since they killed him in the Spiderman series... so why bringing the Iron Patriot like that ? It's pointless and pathetic...
So, does Tony Stark evolve ? Well not really... Since they refuse to show his alcoholism on screen (but apparently don't have any problem showing terrorist attacks a couple of weeks after Boston lol...), all they could do was introduce some couple problems with Pepper... Well guess what, it doesn't work. I don't know how Guy Pearce got convinced to play in this, but he makes for the worst villain ever. No depth, no motivation, it's very badly written. Making a hero work isn't that hard, the hard part is making a villain work... The joker and Bane were quite good in the Batman series, but in the Iron Man series it's a succession of awfully written characters. Even in all the Marvel movies, there may be only 2 descent villains : Loki and the Green Goblin. That's it. Magneto and the Abomination were kind of fun, but the rest are appalling : Bullseye, Sandman, Whiplash, the Red Skull, Sebastian Shaw, etc...
Secondary characters ? Rubbish as well. War Machine/Iron Patriot brings nothing but laughable pity, Jon Favreau's character is totally out of place, Pepper forgives everything and transforms into a superhero at the end (the arc in the comic book was again so much better...), Rebecca Hall's role could simply have been erased it's so useless, and James Badge Dale delivers a pale copy of X-Files' super soldiers...
I watched it in IMAX 3D, and frankly, it wasn't worth it. The 3D is just as bad as in The Avengers : the movie is clearly not made for it, it's just a post production effect, not a desire from the director to shoot it in 3D. Same with the IMAX scenes, nothing pops out like the scenes in the Batman movies or the last Mission Impossible. All in all, it's one of the worst Marvel movies ever. Even Thor was better than that.