Waste of time and resources.

Rating: 1/10 (28 April 2013)

*Contains Spoilers* I can't believe this film was even considered with this obnoxious storyline. Mandarin, Iron Man's arch-nemesis, is made to look like a complete useless idiot. Their intellect (in the comics) is evenly matched but Iron Man 3 showed us that Mandarin was working on his project for 13 years and could not figure out a way to stabilise it where Tony Stark almost figured it out in one night, when he was drunk. He later figured it out completely to save Pepper, without breaking a sweat. If that wasn't enough of a kick to the groin, Tony has reoccurring stupid decisions throughout the film. From giving the terrorists his home address to taking the only suit that wasn't combat ready to trusting a little kid with his only suit to destroying all of his 42 suits for no reason. One another major thing that annoyed me was his constant panic/anxiety attacks. It was just painful to watch a hero cower and replay memories of himself from the ending scenes of The Avengers, added nothing to the story and was just useless. If anything, shouldn't one of his priorities be to keep all the suits in case of alien danger, the thing he kept cowering about? There was also major inconsistencies with Mandarin's henchmen and the damage they could do to the suits.
I gave the film a 3/10 because the action was good, no other reason. I recommend to only see this film if you are a person who has no care for Iron Man or the storyline or logic in general, and just generally enjoy violence.