Iron Man 3 soars at the Box Office but crash lands with me.
There was a great line from Iron Man 3 that summed up my
feelings. “Ever since that big guy with the hammer fell out of the sky,
subtlety's kinda had its day”. That is a line that Aldrich Killian (Pearce)
tells Tony Stark (Downey) in a scene from the film and I have never agreed with
an analysis more. As viewers/fans we KNEW that the Marvel Universe would change
forever after the events of The Avengers. It’s hard to make a movie that deals
with aliens, gods, super soldiers and tons of other topics and that expansion
of the Universe not spill over into the world of the most realistic character
in the group, which was Iron Man. So when the writers saw what worked with The
Avengers I’m sure they figured “let’s add a bunch of stuff like that to our
movie”! What you end up with is a movie that doesn’t even feel like it is part
of the same franchise as the previous Iron Man movies.
Storyline: When Stark (Downey) is targeted by a mysterious
threat known as The Mandarin, he brashly threatens The Mandarin and invites him
to attack when he has the nerve to do so. This results in a full on assault on
Tony Stark and the United States. Tony uses this attack as motivation to strike
back and find out exactly who this terrorist is. When the current is pulled
back, exactly who is behind the attacks is something that, as The Mandarin
states, you will never see coming.
I will try to keep this as spoiler free as possible, but I’m
typing in “rage mode” right now, so I can’t be held responsible for what I
leak. First of all, Iron Man was the BATMAN of the Marvel Universe. A rich guy
in a battle suit that fights crime and belongs to a team filled with other
superheroes. By taking on that role, Iron Man should be the most realistic and
relatable films in the Marvel Universe. Yet in this film you have humans that
can spit fire and are, basically, invincible. How does that fly? The writers
should be ashamed of themselves for ruining the tone of the franchise by adding
in some of the stuff they did. And don’t get me started on how poorly they treated
the legacy of a great character like The Mandarin (which has near limitless
powers in the comics due to 10 rings of power). He is basically reduced to a
joke. That doesn’t sit well with me.
Worth the admission? If you are looking for a fun movie and
don’t care about franchise/character continuity or how they treat characters
with 50 years of history, then sure…it’s worth it. But if you are a true fan of
the series you will wait for it to come out on DVD. This installment is not
even on par with Iron Man 2 and relies so much on comedy to carry the film that
you fully expect Seth Rogan to make an appearance at some point.
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