So I had the chance to catch Marvels latest super hero movie Iron Man 3 today. I thought the first movie was one of the best super hero movies of all time, and I found the second to be kind of a bore, so I wanted to be optimistic going into this one, but at the same time wasn't holding my breath. On the off chance you've never heard of or seen an Iron Man movie, they feature Robert Downey Jr. playing the very charismatic genius Tony Stark who after a near fatal accident builds an armor wearing suit loaded with high tech weaponry and AI, and decides to fight the bad guys and occasionally save the universe from intergalactic threat.
In this third film we see Tony coping with events from the Avengers which has left him a little shaken mentally, and facing a new villain know as The Mandarin. Unable to sleep Tony spends most of his time creating new Iron Man suits, and keeping to himself, causing problems in his personal life with his current love interest Pepper Potts played by Gwyneth Paltrow. This is as much of the plot as I'm going to give away at this point as to not spoil anything, but I will say that if you have seen the trailers over the last few months they are very misleading about exactly what is going on. Even though I did find the truth to be a little goofy it was also refreshing to have not been spoiled by trailers giving away the whole story which is common place these days.
Now was Iron Man 3 worth the price of admission? Well it still doesn't beat the first one in my opinion, but it was a much more fun ride than the second, and had many moments where I and the rest of the film audience were laughing out loud. Downey has always been the heart of these movies and nothing has changed, I don't think I could ever picture anyone else doing anything better with the role, and considering that this is more of a Tony Stark film than an Iron Man film, that's a good thing. What I mean by that is there is very little suit time and this is more of an adventure starring the very witty Tony Stark trying to come to terms with things and stop the bad guys, with a little help from his tech and friends thrown in for good measure.
I think the only problem really is Marvel out did themselves with The Avengers, I mean how can you go from stopping an alien invasion led by a god from another planet to just some petty guy out to cause chaos. I did enjoy the movie and would recommend it as a movie to go see, but the villains just aren't that menacing compared to the epic battles fought in The Avengers. I believe that this should be the last Iron Man only film, but the character should definitely be a part of any future Avenger movies.
The trailer is amazing, but I'm pretty sure a few of those scenes were not in the the film, unless I blinked when they happened.
