More Like This. Coming Soon. The Whole Truth. One will win cash for the stocking — a merry Christmas indeed! On Aug. How could something like this happen? Told through her own words. Rhodes who has a new gig as the stars-and-stripes-studded presidential bodyguard Iron Patriot, the film appears as a sloppy mess likely to meet the same fate as "Iron Man 2. Story structure aside, the script does boast plenty of Stark quips in case you worried the directorial turnover from Jon Favreau to Shane Black would alter the tone of the franchise.
Not even close. If anything, the "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" director pushes the boundaries of political correctness with some of the dialogue, especially in the scenes in which Tony finds himself teamed up with a year-old boy. Rather than open with an action sequence to get the ball rolling, we get a flashback to when Stark met Pearce's Killian as well as a genetic engineer named Maya played by Rebecca Hall.
Things don't really begin to pick up until Tony has his mansion blown into the ocean. Not unlike "Iron Man 2," the film's action is largely reserved for the grand finale. Still, the amount of special effects shots is probably tripled, and the action sequences when they do come were written to be as unique and memorable as possible, with a skydiving sequence taking the cake. The "Iron Man" films and this is partly fault of the comic lack truly excellent villains. This film sets up Tony Stark's greatest nemesis in the Mandarin, but complicates it in a way you'll never see coming considering how studios and writers have flocked toward villains in the mold of Heath Ledger's Joker from "The Dark Knight.
Take the boy for example. If the film failed on the whole, it would forever be remembered as "the 'Iron Man' movie with Tony Stark and that kid. If "Spider-Man 3" had worked, everyone wouldn't refer to it as "the one with emo Peter Parker.
So much of the film seems anecdotal until you see how the pieces fit. Even then, there's no guarantee the audiences will be compelled by the completed puzzle, but "Iron Man 3" goes bold enough to surprise in a good way.
The humor definitely misfires at times and the sense of danger doesn't pervade the film from start to finish, but considering how must third installments have sputtered "Spider-Man 3," "X-Men: The Last Stand" , it's testament to a number of quality components at work behind the scenes, not excluding "The Avengers," which clearly reenergized Iron Man as a solo character.
Few actors have truly created and owned a character like Downey Jr. Without him, Iron Man is just a second-class superhero in Marvel's canon.
He single-handedly launched Phase One of Marvel Studios' plan and gave audiences a multi-dimensional hero with both despicable and lovable qualities. If he powers down the suit after "The Avengers 2," it'll be the end of an era. Visit moviemusereviews. FAQ 9. What is 'Iron Man 3' about? Is 'Iron Man 3' based on a book? Bush screams for his wife as he falls out of the sky.
Another subversive aspect of the movie: The post-credit scene, which reveals that Tony was telling this story to Bruce Banner, who fell asleep, in a quasi-therapy session. I love the Tony-Bruce bromance. Furthermore, they share basically the same theme.
At the beginning of Iron Man 3 , Tony talks about how we create our own demons, and in Age of Ultron , Ultron declares says we create the things we dread. What does that even mean? I said it because he said it. Tony Stark begins narrating the story of how he lost everything, stating how it all started at a New Year's Eve party in ; Stark meets the eccentric and physically disabled Aldrich Killian , who promotes his company, Advanced Idea Mechanics.
However, Stark, deciding to research another operation, Extremis with Maya Hansen misleads Killian into believing he was interested in his ideas. He sends him to wait on the roof, never intending to show up.
Stark witnesses the powers of Extremis first-hand, as it can genetically manipulate living organisms. As the New Years fireworks go off, Killian is left alone on the roof. In December , seven months following the Battle of New York , Tony Stark has spent all his time building dozens of new powered suits. It is clear that his near death experience while destroying the Chitauri has had a deep effect on him, as he starts showing signs of post traumatic stress disorder. Not helping is the emergence of a new threat; a powerful terrorist leader named the Mandarin has been responsible for multiple bombings.
In order to assure the public that the US Government is capable of handling the threat, they have given James Rhodes ' War Machine armor a Captain America-inspired paint job and renamed him 'Iron Patriot', to a mixed reception across the US. Stark meets Rhodes in a diner and the two discuss the Mandarin. Rhodes reveals there have been more bombings than have been reported on the news, and intelligence agencies have been left mystified by the lack of physical evidence left behind.
Rhodes insists that Stark not get involved, as the US Government is keen to handle this themselves to reassure people who have been left nervous following the Chitauri Invasion. The discussion is interrupted when two children ask Stark to sign a drawing of him carrying the nuclear missile through the wormhole, and the image clearly puts Stark on edge. When one of the children asks how he escaped the wormhole, this triggers a severe panic attack and Stark leaves abruptly, concerning Rhodes.
That night, Stark has a nightmare about his near death causing one of his suits to nearly attack his girlfriend, Pepper Potts , when it detects he is in distress. She is ready to leave, so he finally admits that something about him has changed since he left New York City. The situation becomes even worse when Pepper is visited by Killian, who happens to be her old love interest.
Killian is now far more suave and confident, and no longer shows any signs of his previous handicap. Pepper rejects Killian's invitation into Advanced Idea Mechanics. Happy Hogan , who has been promoted to Stark Industries ' head of security since Iron Man is hardly in need of a bodyguard at this point , becomes suspicious of Killian's bodyguard, Eric Savin , and investigates him at the Chinese Theatre. When he witnesses Jack Taggart unexpectedly combust, it destroys the Chinese Theatre, and puts Hogan into the Los Angeles Mercy Hospital : Savin escapes, mysteriously regenerating from his injuries.
When leaving the hospital after visiting Hogan, a pointed question by a reporter causes a furious Stark to make a impromptu statement towards the Mandarin promising revenge and giving him his home address as a challenge. Later Stark is unexpectedly visited by Hansen, and the same time, Stark's home is attacked and destroyed by Mandarin's helicopters. Stark survives the attack, but is left stranded in rural town Rose Hill , Tennessee when J. The world believes Stark to be dead as the Mandarin starts issuing more threats of violence.
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