Monday, 23 September 2013

Phoning in a sequel

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Directed by Shane Black this comic book adaptation stars Robert Downey, Jr. Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Ben Kingsley and Guy Pearce. Suffering from the after affects of his actions in The Avengers (2012) Tony Stark takes on a terrorist.

There is some nice window dressing but not much substance to this film as neither the plot nor the character issues that the protagonist has to face have enough depth in this by the numbers super hero film. Even the protagonist is a real disappointment, taking a great actor and iconic comic book character to combine into a complete anti climax is a huge waste. Most of the effects and the big fight sequences are nice but there just is not enough story to really put this up there with some of the other Marvel offerings.


3/5

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