Jordan's 3 Point Review: This Story Arc was an Epic Fail.

Rating: 4/10 (3 May 2013)

1- The mandarins character was completely unused. An absolute tragedy considering his role as iron mans nemesis.
2- Lots of cool iron man suits for those looking passed the story and more at the action and gear. 3- A completely messy plot. Using the Mandarin as a decoy villain was an insult to the comic faithful. This felt like a t.v one shot and completely missed the characteristics of the villain.
Finally, I am a comic book fan. I like new ideas in a movie and don't fault a story angel that doesn't follow page by page tradition. However, this was simply a bad idea and the story completely abandoned the characters it was trying to introduce a mass audience too. Unfortunately, now the mass audience thinks the Mandarin is a joke. This was as big an opportunity as there are for marvel to build villains into something special..and they decided to completely diminish Iron Man's biggest foe. Bad Idea.
5/10