Iron Man 3, did it live up to its hype?

           

               Iron Man is a successful movie trilogy based on Marvel's character Tony Stark.The news about the third Iron Man movie quickly became a trending topic on the internet with the hype supporting it for being a great movie trilogy. In Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr. reprised his role as Tony Stark, a genius playboy millionaire who dons the suit of Iron Man. In this movie his main villain is The Mandarin who is one of his arch nemesis in the comics.

                  This movie touched the main character anxiety attacks because of his past experience in The Avengers . It could be suggested that this is a new style of portrayal for Tony Stark who is arrogant and confident  in the past which makes the character more vivid than before. It is also the first movie who starred a child sidekick who help Iron Man regained his confidence. In a sense this movie is more kid friendly by giving a new character for children to relate. It can be seen as a gamble because some portrayal of kids become irritating for being dependent to the main character which they handled quite nicely. One can also see that they really put more effort on the comedy side which makes it easier to take some of its dramatic moments. It could be suggested that Shane Black did a good job retaining this movie trilogy's glory while adding his own techniques to improve the quality of this sequel.

                The problem with this movie is the portrayal of the Mandarin itself. Mandarin here become nothing more like a dummy rather than one of the most strongest enemy of Iron Man. It can also be suggested that this movie become more child friendly and Tony Stark as someone who is arrogant and a playboy, Limits the possibility of this portrayal for his character. The Extremis arc is a good story but it is not as good as the comic version which give birth to Extremis version of Iron Man suit. This suit is use for combating the Extremis Terrorist which overpowered Stark just like the movie.

                    Anyway, Iron Man 3 is a good movie even with its flaws. The portrayal of Tony Stark by Robert Downey Jr. is great with his witty one liners and, the love between Pepper and Tony is delved in even deeper. Overall it is a solid movie and I recommend it to all my readers who wants to experience a good action movie from 2013.

                  

                                 This is how The Mandarin looks like in the comics.