A Rousing Movie; Different from What I Expected
Let me start by saying that I can understand why there are a lot of split opinions about IRON MAN 3. It's a film full of misdirection and deceptions, and I was a little distressed by a couple of them - which would give away too much to detail here. Suffice it to say that there were a couple of moments I felt somewhat cheated; and though I'll be vague about it I can say it involved Mandarin. Still, read on; while I gave the movie four stars, I believe down the road I might very well revise this to a five. I'll explain...
First of all, rest assured there is A LOT of action. And there are a lot of the Iron Suits, too...it's just that Tony Stark isn't often the one IN the suit. I found myself often frustrated by that fact: Iron Man interruptus, if you will. Either the suits were off on their own, or they were on other people, or they weren't working properly...something that seemed to occur almost constantly.
I saw it in Imax 3D, and it was well worth the extra...
Awesome
I dont care about comics. As far as a movie? This was great. It makes me forget that stinker Iron Man 2. Good action, great camera angles, great characters. I enjoyed the madarin twist even though it was against the grain. Guy did a great job of being a villian. It was like getting part comic book, part video game, and part Lethal Weapon. The level of action and the pace of the movie was right on target. The pepper ending could have been a silly disaster but i think they did it right, and gwen played that scene perfect. I left the theatre very happy. Like spider man 2, avengers, x men 2, this is a great marvel action movie. Not a comic book. Shane Black did a great job with this movie. It was like being in the theatre as a kid watching the Hoth battle unfold. Thats how i feel about this movie. Can you tell i just watched it? Im going to watch it again right now.
Great cast, beautiful visuals, ridiculously implausable
The cast is fantastic, the writing is top-notch, but the plot and premises are soooo far out there it tough to enjoy at times. I don't mind a kinda wild, implausible story, but this time nothing makes any sense at all anymore. Without giving anything away, the technology displayed via the new "suit" is so advanced, one would imagine that with tech like that, there is absolutely no reason for anyone to be inside the suit at all. The real movie would be one of indestructible drones going around and instantly dispatching of every bad guy that ever walked the earth (in the first half-hour) and the last two hours, everyone living peacefully in a world devoid of evil megalomaniacs. But the real movie features a Tony Stark, who apparently, selectively applies his genious as the plot requires, and likewise, somehow his IQ will drop drastically to facilitate a plot device that otherwise would never come to fruition.
Still a fun movie overall and certainly worth the price of...
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