Iron Man 3: Movie Review... So I saw the third installment (fourth if you count The Avengers) in the Tony Stark saga today, and needless to say, it was cool. The film had a nice twist (involving the main villain) towards the end of the second act of the story, and seeing as how they worked together on the 2005 flick Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, director Shane Black gave Robert Downey Jr. much more to act with (humor-wise, that is) than Jon Favreau did in Iron Man 2. Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts definitely saw more action than she did in the first two Iron Man installments, while Don Cheadle's Colonel James Rhodes got to have some awesome fight scenes with and without the Iron Patriot (formerly known as War Machine) armor on. Rebecca Hall (from 2010's The Town) played a neurobiologist who made the unfortunate mistake of being in cahoots with the Mandarin. Speaking of the Mandarin, Ben Kingsley did a great job conveying the true nature of this bad guy...which involved being a buffoon who enjoyed drinking beer and watching a soccer game on TV while two hot scantily-clad chicks were spooning in his bed. If you're a die-hard Marvel Comics fan who think that this description of the Mandarin is extremely blasphemous, then watch the movie right away. Trust me— You'll be pleasantly surprised.
Not to be trifled with in Iron Man 3 is Guy Pearce...who apparently got tired of being in such Oscar-winning dramas as The Hurt Locker and The King's Speech and decided to star in a major Hollywood summer blockbuster this time around. Pearce plays Aldrich Killian, the mastermind behind a gene-altering virus known as Extremis, who along with the Mandarin (cough-cough) decides to use this creation to get revenge on Tony Stark for shunning Killian at a party in Switzerland 13 years earlier. In case you're wondering what Extremis does, it allows folks with missing limbs (specifically injured war veterans) to grow these body parts back...plus increases their physical strength twofold. Oh, and the virus also causes an unstable chemical reaction within the subject's body to make them prone to self-combustion, and even leading them to explode. Injected into the wrong person, and you literally have a walking time-bomb; injected into the right person, and you have an antagonist who can breathe out fire like a dragon and use the heat generated by the chemical reaction to dismantle just about anything...including the armor on a certain billionaire philanthropist's robotic suit.
All-in-all, Iron Man 3 was an exceptional addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film, of course, had some minor issues...namely the fact that all of the Iron Man suits exploded like they were home-made pipe bombs or something (yes, I know— They were made in Tony Stark's house). Plus, Stark must have multiple bank accounts around the globe if he's going to nonchalantly destroy billions of dollars worth of robotic armor (every single one of them...except the suit worn by Colonel Rhodes) just to make things right with Ms. Potts at the end. To think that the Hulkbuster armor won't ever be used against you know, the Hulk, is unfortunate. But then again, if the end credits are any indication, it's that Tony Stark will return...and bring Iron Man back to life even if Stark no longer has that electromagnetic device implanted on his chest to power the suit. Oh, and who else is going to annoy Bruce Banner when The Avengers 2 comes along? Agent Coulson? He's too busy returning from the dead to star in his own TV show this fall (which would be Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). That is all.
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