Iron Man 3 Movie Review

Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark, the billionaire genius whose self-made suit of armor transforms him into a superhero. This time, Stark faces his gravest enemy yet -- the Mandarin, leader of an international terrorist organization who aims to disable Stark through the capture of his girlfriend, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). With the fate of America in his hands and through the support of his best friend Col. Rhodey (Don Cheadle), Stark's technological ingenuity takes on new strength and focus as he sets out for vengeance. Expect explosive violence, bloody combat, and some intense scary scenes -- as well as the strong possibility of drinking and innuendo from our playboy hero.

 In theaters May 3, 2013


 Not the arrogant playboy philanthropist that we’ve come to know and love over the course of three films, but rather a shadow of that guy, struggling to deal with the fact that he has encountered ‘gods’, aliens and a Hulk, and plagued by nightmares, anxiety and post-traumatic stress. His situation quickly worsens as, via voiceover and flashback, we are transported to Berne, Switzerland on millennium eve, a night when Tony unwittingly created demons that more than a decade on would come back to haunt him. We meet Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall), a brilliant and beautiful scientist who wants to cure all human beings of illness by creating the next iteration of human evolution. And Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), another scientist with a brilliant mind but multiple physical disabilities. Stark being Stark sleeps with the former and ignores the latter, and we are soon back in the present day, where the fallout from that decision comes back to bite Tony rather aggressively on the behind. There’s also the small matter of The Mandarin finally appearing on the scene. Iron Man’s best-known antagonist from the comics appears here as the head of sinister organisation The Ten Rings. A terrorist whose attacks are as seemingly random as they are deadly, he also specialises in spreading fear by stealing iconography and symbolism from countless different cultures and packaging them up in the kind of chilling video messages that appear on the news all-too-often.