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Friday, May 3, 2013

Review: "Iron Man 3" (2013) "Back In Black"


By: Gabriel Roderick
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Before I can even review this blockbuster let me throw my thoughts out of the other movies in the series.

Our Honest View gives:

Iron Man 2008: 9/10
Iron Man 2 2010: 9.7/10
Avengers 2012: 9.7/10

Okay now that I got that off my chest I am going to this review a little different by talking about the minor things I hated about this film, then go into all the things that I loved about it!

The major thing I didn't like about the film is that it's so true to the story it should have been the first movie. Don't get me wrong Jeff Bridges performance was amazing but he wasn't necessary as much as the Mandarin and the Extremis are.  

They are vital elements in the Iron Man series, as proven in this film and are of course would have made a great origin movie. Though this is a great conclusion supposedly to the series. However the order of the film could have been Iron Man 3, then 2 and ending with the first one of course just the villain not the entire story because this isn't Star Wars.

The other thing I didn't like about this film is something minor but I should point out is the audience. Not to spoilers here but the movie is a a story from 1999-2013 told by Tony and if you don't stay past the credits you'll never know who he's talking to. Well I'll tell you anyway **SPOILERS** he's talking to Bruce Banner claiming that Banner is a doctor. And even past this the screen reads "tony will return".

That is good since the idea of Robert Downey Jr.'s contract has been tossed up in the air over the last few months.

Okay the other thing I didn't like about the movie was changing the War Machine suit into the Iron Patriot. We only got to see War Machine for the last 20 minutes of Iron Man 2 so I was hoping he'd have more of a showing in this film. Apparently the change is because it's more appealing to the American People, seems to be following in the trend of ditching Howard for Cheadle. More spoilers but in Iron Man 2 HammerTech is put into the suit and Tony has to hack it right?

Well why the hell did Rhodey let AIM put tech into this suit as well?

I guess we'll never know.

Well that's what I hated very minor as you can see, now let's digest the goodies!

My big feeling going into this is that most super hero movies are heading into darker tones after the success of the Dark Knight Trilogy. Don't get me wrong I love the series but Batman is a dark character not ever other superhero or else we'd see a lot of guys in bat suits.

Iron Man follows this trend, Tony claims, "It's not about politics just good old fashion revenge."

The film is counterbalanced with all the dark elements by being funny as hell! It's truly the funniest of the three films, and it's Tony's character. His chemistry with the other characters make him so great.

Guy Pearce's role as Aldrich Killian is a great villain but not the best. Granted the movie takes a HUGE plot twist you wouldn't expect Killian is just like the comics in turns of nuts. However Pearce adds some great humor to the character especially in the flashbacks playing a nerd and crippled man.

And of course Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin. Tony calls him a "Baptist Preacher" which he really sounds. He has a deep southern tone of a manic but I won't ruin the plot of the film.

However I most point out there is a epic war between the Mandarin's army of Extremis soldiers and  Tony and his army of suits. I was worried about how you could protray a army of healing hot heads. But Black does a great job, when in doubt blow them up!


Yes finally Tony can put his suits on at will and jump from one to another. Which absolutely was filmed epically. He jumped off a a crane structure jumping from suit to suit. There is about 10 suits that are shown all representing parts of Tony's personality. As he says, "Everyone needs a hobby."

A few things that I was worried about with this film where the run time but surprisingly is only about 2 and half hours but with action non stop and jokes left and right the run time doesn't feel bad at all.

Another thing that worried me was the idea of Tony's character developmental especially after the events of the Avengers. That's where Ty Simpkins fits in. He plays Tony's sidekick Harley and a great job at that for a 11 year old. He seems like a mature version of Tony. 

He keeps asking Tony what happened to Tony in New York which plagues him constantly into building all the suits to protect Pepper who even wears the suit for a minute finally!  

Though it SHOULD have been a reoccurring theme, Harley helps him get over his fears of New York by telling him to build something.  I was hoping this would plague him more since his experience in Avengers seem to be the worse all of the heroes. 

Tony's character after Avengers seemed to grow all the way but occurring to Iron Man 3 he went backwards in growth. I was wondering where to go from here, but at the end of Iron Man 3 he's finally a adult and realizes no matter what he does he's "Iron Man." 


The difference to him saying this in the first film and the third film is that he has much more confidence in himself and knows who he is.

Our Honest View gives Iron Man 3, 9.75/10. This truly is the greatest Iron Man movie and may be one of the greatest movies of all time. Yes I believe this movie is larger than the Avengers, the Avengers may have had a negative affect of his character but he outshines this neagtivity to become Iron Man. This movie could easily be the first in the series but with a great plot, development and characters it claims the rights to be the third in the series. 

+ Tony Stark
+ Jumping Suit To Suit
+ Harley

- Avengers
-Iron Patriot

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