Iron Man 3

First up: will the people who will vote this review as being unhelpful please explain why they find it so when they do. Thank you. Second: This sees the film debut of a villain from Iron Man comics called the Mandarin. But a man with mystic powers doesn't quite fit into the style of these films. So the character has been somewhat altered. In a way that may not please some comic book fans. You have been advised. But never having read an Iron Man comic in my life; I don't care! And neither will others who haven't read one either. But who enjoy these movies. And they, at the end of the day, are in the majority. DVD specifics: Languages: English, Flemish. French. Subtitles: English, Arabic Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Slovenian, French. The disc begins with lots of trailers and adverts. Which can be skipped by pressing the next chapter button on the dvd remote control. All these trailers and adverts appear in the sneak peeks section of the dvd anyhow. The only extras are: 'Exclusive behind the scenes look at Thor: The Dark World.' Which is a one minute long promotional feature of clips and talking heads for the forthoming Thor sequel. It's short, but it does make the film look really good. 'Deconstructing the scene - attack on Air Force One.' Is an eight minute long look at how one big set piece in Iron Man Three was filmed. It's pretty interesting viewing. The film itself is set sometime after the end of Marvel's Avengers Assemble [DVD ] [which you probably don't need to have seen in order to get into this. But then if you're watching this you probably will have anyhow]. It sees Tony troubled by what happened in said Avengers movie. He's not troubled by the events of the first scene, though. A flashback to a time a few years before when he got involved with an engimatic lady and gave a nerdy inventor the brush off. But perhaps he should be... [as the narratation makes clear]. When trying to deal with ruthless international terrorist the Mandarin [Ben Kingsley] Tony finds his world under attack. And without much of he relies on, he has to use his ingenuity to survive. And strike back. Can he bring The Mandarin to justice? And find the truth about some horrifying experiments? This is the 'hero gets knocked down and starts to doubt themselves, can they find their way back up?' movie plotline. But then there are, as someone once said, only so many stories. The familarity shouldn't put you off. It doesn't have to tie into any other Marvel movie or set things up. So the focus can be firmly on Tony throughout. Which allows for it to be a strong character pic. There does come a point once we're past all the set up when it really clicks. There's good character interaction. Fun dialogue. Even a smart kid character never gets annoying. Good humour. And a plot with a few decent twists and turns. Plus a pretty good villain. Big set pieces are more than adequate and pretty spectacular with it. Although the final set piece is perhaps one too many, but that's only a minor complaint. It tries to round off the Iron Man Trilogy and bring closure to a lot of things, and it succeeds in doing that. Whilst not entirely closing the door for more [since the money men wouldn't be happy if he wasn't in the Avengers sequel, after all]. Everything a blockbuster movie should be. Good escapist spectacular entertainment, and well worth 5/5. There is a scene after the credits, as is common with these movies. But unlike most it doesn't actually set up anything for any future films. But it's still worth a look.

Robert Downey Jnr takes centre stage in this excellent sequel. This is an action packed film worthy of the genre. Enjoy!

Brought to complete my ironman set. No issues. As expected.

Kaboom!! Pow! Smash! Zingg!! Swoooshh!! Ping ping ping crackle Boom! These are just some of the flashed words that could have come up on the screen. After a story fuelled first half of the film with key fore-shadowing occuring of course, a sudden reveal of a plot detour, we arrive at the Shane Black re-routing of Iron Man. Was this going to bloom into a Wolverine hard slog mood piece or a pulse-racing Thor-a-thon? Then, for the final portion of the movie it's one zinging uplifty pummel-fest after another. Audacious action came in waves, crescendos, quickenings, the pacing zesty with the vigorously present score. Not unlike a number of landmark action films from earlier decades, Shane Black has clearly upped the fun-throttle from the slightly uninspiring second Iron Man. This has minor niggling flaws of course, but by the end they are sat further back in your memory than the impact laden film that impresses upon the ears and eyes. A metallic Beethoven overture perhaps. And this is indeed why the movie succeeds where others have been lagging. It is a rabble-rouser with a nod and a wink, like one of the better Bond films. What many similar films have lacked is the audacity to have audience whooshing orchestral music that is arena filling, adding flame to the ardour, the building of emotional crescendos, the energy of a comic-book sensibility coming through loud and clear. A crowd pleasing, uplifting surge of film, that can be summed up simply with the cameo of Stan Lee in amidst the fleshy goings-on. A solid piece of work, which does what it should do, entertain whilst simultaneously dazzling the eye. Surprisingly frenetic and kitschy end-titles were in fact more entertaining than many big movies i have recently sat through. More please.

Good buy

I vaguely remember the original mags back in the 60's and people who refer to this film not being true to source need to get a grip. Being pedantic and oh so superior about original material doesn't mean the critique is any more meaningful. So what, it might not stick like glue to the original concept but the technology over the last 50 years mean it can develop to fit in with audience expectations today. If we stuck to everything as it was and the 'futuristic' views of what might happen in the 60's we'd be moaning about the lack of effects and drama and how outdated the whole thing would be This film likes the others takes a fairly traditional hero and puts him into a contemporary setting. In this there are plenty (and I mean plenty) of suits flying round, lots of good bangs and special effects and some very understated humour. I enjoyed it for what it is and a lot of other folk will too. I mean lets face it were talking about a flying suit of armour here.....still a bit futuristic in itself.....its a fantasy/science fiction film so just go with the flow...and enjoy as much as the other two which I assume you have watched and enjoyed or you wouldn't be reading these reviews and thinking about buying this one to follow suit.

Well our hero isn't doing to well, our idiot is still in the show from number one and two now the world is in rubbles what are you doing where is the hero?. I still love the movies and haven't got tired of them yet. The story is continuing from the first but this iron man must now improve his wits and armour to try and end this. Is it the suit that makes the man or visa versa that remains to be seen. With so many suits he won't catch a cold, maybe gunfire rockets or bombs as the action take us, but not a cold, as the action its full on going from beginning to end, and this is a must for the collection. To tell the truth they must like playing in their suits. I rated this an A grade plus for been awesome and entertaining that is first class, fantastic actors and storyline is just as great. Time for the popcorn and movie so go get it and relax with feet up, to a fabulous night in with something unforgettable, if the show doesn't start straight away just hit the play button. Enjoy!

Ok, it's like this. I am well out of the normal age for these sort of films and my expectations are probably shaped by the need for of a more adult theme to what I watch, think what Watchmen and Batman did for the word 'dark' ? I LOVED Iron Man 1, the second film was doing well until it began to look like a kids computer game at the end, however the suitcase rig was well done and believable...maybe ?? Same thing with Avengers Assemble ...loved it to bits and watched it over and over, in BluRay too...no problems there. Iron Man 3 just looked like an out take from any Transformers film, and any bashy bashy film that's made it to the screens in the last 10 years ...lots of noise and massively improbable, too many suit changes, too many cliches!!! My copy is going to a charity shop :-( I WISH THE BUDGET FOR THIS FILM HAD BEEN USED TO MAKE SOMETHING WITH A HEART AND SOUL ...A NEW SERIES OF 'FIREFLY' AND ANOTHER 'SERENITY' FILM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!