Iron Man 3! This movie has been hiped for a whole year! People have been so excited! Not to see a story but to see fan service and a crap load of Iron Man suits. This movie is of course the first movie of Phase 2, of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), and if that's the case, it has alot to hold up on its sholeders. Did Shane black do a good job with this series of fun movies. Is this better than the pure stupidness of Iron Man 2? I pray to Odin that it is.
The movie starts on News Years Eve in 1999. Tony (Robert Downey Jr.) is partying with his little squeeze, Maya (Rebecca Hall). She and him doing their thing, while a crippled disgusting Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) tells Tony about A.I.M. While Tony and Maya are up in a hotel room, she tells him about this healing process called "EXTREMIS." Yes, the story is going that route.
We then cut to the present, where Tony is having anxiety because of the events of the Avengers. Pepper (Gwenyth Paltrow) and Roadey (Don Cheadle) try to help him, but he is just in his lab working on suits. We are then introduced to the character called the "Mandarin." (Ben Kingsley) He is bombing all sorts of places and making viral threats on the T.V. He is basically a terrorist.
Roadey is charged by the President to go after the Mandarin doning the new persona, the Iron Patriot. NO! IT'S NOT NORMAN OSBORN! He is looking all over but cannot find him. Meanwhile, Aldrich comes back and looks alot better. He tells Pepper about the Extremis project and asks if Stark Industries and A.I.M can work together. Pepper say's no, and Aldrich leaves on his merry way. Happy Hogan (Jon Faveraue) see's Aldrich and follow's him, for he looks suspicious. Aldrich took too many cookies from Happy's cookie jar.
Happy finds out that the Extremis project is dangerous, but he is injured in a fight. After Tony visits him in the hospital, the media asks him what he'll do. He then threatens the Madarin by giving him is home adress? I don't know, just go with it. BUT OF COURSE the Madarin responds to the threat by blowing up his house. Everyone thinks that Tony is dead, but he goes into hideing. Oh, and that Maya girl comes back, forgot since she isn't much of a character.
Tony wakes up in Tennesse, where we meet the comedy relif sidekick who is only ten. GOD THIS KID'S ANNOYING! After a bunch of cool fight scenes that don't involve the Iron Man suits, (There is a scene here that deserves it's own paragraph that involves the Mandarin. It will come soon in this reveiw.) Tony is captured by Aldrich. Maya then becomes a villain! Don't know why though, she's not really a character... can she do something usefull? OH LOOK! She just got shot by Aldrich! WOW! I don't care!
It is revealed that Pepper has been kidnapped by Aldrich, and he is using her for the Extremis experiments. Wow, y'know... it seems that this Aldrich guy is more of a villain than this, oh what was his name? ..... Orange Chicken? No, Panda Inn? No, no. OH I remember! Amandarin! No...
The scene that was mentioned in that last paragraph deserves EXTRA attention. When I saw this scene I was pissed off, but I've had time to calm down and look at it in a different perspective. Before Tony is captured, he gets supplies to make a bunch of cool weapons. He infiltrates the location of the Madarin, and finds him. It is revealed that the character Ben Kingsley plays is not the Mandarin. It turns out the Madarin doesnt exist. It is all an act, and Ben Kingsley plays an idiot actor named Trevor. He is brittish, drinks beers, watches T.V. and does drugs. WHAT WAS THAT!???!? Everything that has advretised this movie has shown the Mandarin as a menacing villain! You're just gonna throw this little haha moment at me? That whole thing belonged in a parody of Iron Man. Not in the movie itself. To give the movie credit, I like the idea of the Madarin not being a person in itself, but an idea that is passed on from person to person. Unfortunatley, it is done bad in this.
Back to the story.
While all this stuff is happening, Tony escapes in a really badass scene involving one Iron Man boot, one repulsor, and a gun. He gets his armor and tries to help the president. While Tony was escapeing, Roadey is being pulled out of his suit by Aldrich who has Extremis powers. Roady and Tony escape and meet up. They go after someone who is in Roadeys suit. Roadey is supposed to escort Air Force 1, but since he isn't in the suit they must go after him. The man in the suit attacks Air Force 1 and puts the President in the suit, going to parts unknown.
13 people fall out of the plane,and Tony can onley hold 4 in his suit. He saves them in a very clever and amazing scene. Tony and Roady go to the final battlefield and are surronded by people with the Extremis upgrade. Tony calls for back up and the Avengers appear. JUST KIDDING! It's more awesome than that. Over 40 Iron Man suits, controlled by Jarvis, are there to back him and Roadey up. That scene was freaking awesome! Tony is fighting a bunch of bad guys while changing suits. He goes from the Silver Centurion to the Aqua Suit and so on. To be honest I wanted to see a suit that was all gold, but this was still cool.
The final fight happens between Aldrich and Tony. They have a very "edge of your seat" fight. When Aldrich is about to get Tony he is saved by Pepper who has the Extremis powers. He tells her that he can cure her and that he doesn't have to be Iron Man anymore (yeah right). He tells Jarvis to iniciate project "Clean Slate" which destroys all the Iron Man suits.
Pepper gets the help she needs, the "Mandarin" is taken into custody, and Tony gets the shrapnel taken out of him. Everyone lives happily ever after. There is a funny post credits scene that involves Tony and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo). Before that the screen says "TONY STARK WILL RETURN."
This was a fun movie that had it's problems. No movie is perfect, (other than The Dark Knight) and I had a good time with this. I had ideas about what they could've done, but maybe I'll post those ideas another time. This movie was serious, funny, and awesome. I liked it with all the problems it had. Hopefully they'll get a little better with the rest of Phase 2. I give this a high MATINE!!!
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