Review: Iron Man 3

#128 - Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3 is the third installment in the Iron Man trilogy. Chronologically, it follows directly after the Avengers movie. Tony Stark is dealing with the stress and anxiety he feels after almost dying in New York. He is so preoccupied with his own troubles, that it is too late before he realizes that a man he once wronged 13 years ago has finally come around for his revenge. A man named Aldridge Killian has created a pseudo-villain named The Mandarin to terrify the world into thinking there are imminent terrorist attacks. What he is really doing is creating a virus known as Extremis that, when implanted into the human body, creates an unstoppable force. Killian eventually kidnaps Pepper Potts and injects her with Extremis. This forces Tony to enlist the help of Jarvis and the 42 different Iron Man prototypes he has been busying himself with.

This is my absolute favorite film out of the three Iron Man films. There is nothing wrong with it at all. The only thing that makes me rate it as a 4.5 out of 5, instead of a 5, is that I don't understand why it took Killian 13 years to enact his revenge on Tony when Extremis was something that he already knew how to create. For a villain, that's a long time for someone to wait. Other than that, the movie is fantastic. It, as always, has the right amount of comedy in it, but it also has a super bad-ass fight sequence at the end between Killian's Extremis army and Stark's Iron Man suits. Everywhere Tony jumps, a suit is flying in to latch on to him. It's incredibly stunning to watch. I also love that Pepper turns into a pretty huge bad-ass herself once injected with Extremis. I was quite disappointed when Tony said he had the doctors work on her at the end of the film. Sad face.

I am quite happy, and at the same time quite intrigued, that Tony had the doctors remove his shrapnel at the end of the film. 1) Why did he wait so long to do it? 2) Can he really still be Iron Man without the arc reactor inside him? I haven't read the comics, so maybe there is already an answer out there for that. There have been rumors of an Iron Man 4...I sincerely hope there is NOT one. I like how this story ends. "And Iron Man lives happily ever after with Pepper Potts." I mean, when does a superhero story EVER end like that? Just let it be, seriously. I do not want a 4th one, because then Iron Man will probably die, and I will cry like a damn baby.


Overall, Iron Man 3 is a major cinematic success. I love it. I give Iron Man 3 a 4.5 out of 5 stars.