"Iron Man 3: Forgeting to Iron the kinks"

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"Iron Man 3: Forgeting to Iron the kinks"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.

I always have a great measuring stick when it comes to watching great movies and it is something I call the Aven Scale. This measures the amount of whine my daughter develops once a movie goes south in plot and visuals. In the middle of a bad movie she becomes fidgety and I get the hint but in Great movies that are worth the money she just stays very still and eats all of my popcorn.Movies like The Avengers or Rio or Alice in Wonderland.

The latest movie that she was really fidgety about was Iron Man 3 and I could see why.

Plot: The threat of the Mandarin looms ever closer as Tony Stark begins to exhibit signs of Anxiety attacks after his run in with Aliens in New York during the Avengers movie.

Those who have not watched the movie yet. This is a spoiler alert.If you are the kind of person who would form an opinion later despite the facts then read on.

The Good:

- The interaction between Jarvis and Tony Stark.
- The added touch of remote to all of his armor, even fooling Pepper Potts with an empty armor masquerading as himself.
- Tony Stark and seeming fallible armor
- The Visuals and the fighting styles of  the Soldiers of Project Extremis
- The Entrance of Team Iron Man , probably thrilling everyone with all the armor Tony Stark has been working on.
- Tony Stark Fighting in semi armor or just thrusters was a delight to see.
- The destruction of the Stark Malibu Mansion
-Those funny moments when the Mach 42 was malfunctioning.
- The Death of Killian...
- Iron Man saving 13 people while they are plummeting from the sky...
- Tony Stark's generosity to the boy who helped him.
- The limited Edition Dora watch.

The Bad:

- Tony Stark being a pompous ass revealing his home address for the Mandarin to directly assault him.

- Tony Stark and his anxiety attacks. Yes it does make him more human and believable as a character but it does not push the plot in any way because he does not overcome it , the portrayal of it is inconsistent with someone who could assault a dozen giant  , armed men or save people from plummeting to their deaths as they fall from the sky.

There is a lesson here....

- The Mandarin is revealed to be nothing more than an actor.This is the biggest let down of the movie because The Mandarin with his ten rings is one of the coolest Villains of all time and with the ten rings that he has actually is the iconic archenemy of iron man. Ben Kingsley was great and funny but the character did deserve more than that and the script writers were really portraying one tough would be nemesis up to the point where he starts talking from the bathroom.

- The Iron Patriot...

The Ugly:

- The plot seems to be really rushed and Iron Man was never about Conspiracies but this movie was about one!

- Pepper Potts actually going She-Hulk and protecting Tony Stark. So out of character that she actually said so herself.

- Tony Stark coming in Commando style on the Mandarin compound with a bunch of things he invented from Walmart which is like Batman crosses McGyver. The direct assault without the armor is really out of character. You believe Bruce Wayne can do stuff like that but not Tony Stark. It gets even more annoying when it is revealed that he has more than enough armor stashed away somewhere but he didn't use it!

- The needless destruction of all the armor he has created. Even if Tony Stark is a gazillionaire the loss of all that armor is a well...wasteful and seems like a bad close for the 3rd movie even if it produces a lot of fireworks.

- Spoiler Alert: The most annoying part is that part of what defines Iron Man in the movies is the arc light reactor on his chest. By the end of the movie the writers are literally wiping all traces of the previous movies by having it removed. The scene where he throws it by the ruins of his old mansion is a symbolism of that. Again another dangerous and wasteful thing. The thing on his chest is like a mini nuclear reactor and you just throw it in the ocean? Expect mutants from that part of the world pretty soon.

All in all the movie was not worth watching in 3D.
The hurried plot and conspiracies was not even carried by the massive visuals that you would attach to a movie franchise of this caliber. It is obvious that Disney/Marvel is trying to move this to a different direction and we will just have to see where that rabbit hole goes. There were great moments but I did wish that there was more.