PicardRex Wrote:No spoilers, just a brief review. I thought it was good in some ways and very disappointing in others. You can defintely tell Shane Black made the movie, if you've seen Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang you'll notice a similarity in dialogue. Actors were good, action was good and the story was good. My complaint is that it should have been called Iron Everyone but Stark, because there is very little screen time devoted to Iron Man and plenty to his associates. There is a twist, some like some don't, depends on how invested you are in the comics I think. Overall, it was a pretty good movie, just not up to the hype.
I agree wholeheartedly. Iron Man 3 has some sharp writing and the dialogue is as sharp as ever. A lot of this has to do with the fact that the directors have always let Robert Downey, Jr improvise freely.
The problem with this film is that there did not seem to be enough story to properly fill the overly-long running time.
I waited years for the Mandarin to make his appearance. I was a bit miffed when I read that while he will wear 10 rings they will not be a source of magic, because they wanted the Iron Man franchise to remain in the realm of the real world. I was willing to accept a Mandarin who used rings developed as tech versus magic.
But what they ended up doing with the character was horrible. He started off so promising too!
The lack of Iron Man in the film was staggering too. Easily only 15-20 minutes are dedicated to Stark in the costume. Instead we get a few fleeting glimpses of Iron Patriot, and one time we see Pepper Potts in the costume..but aside from that...very little Iron Man.
The action is great though, and there are some intense thriller-like scenes, but ultimately the story is rather weak.