Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

pepper at the end fighting was fucking stupid

When it was announced that the Mandarin would be Iron's nemesis, many became excited about seeing the superhero's top rival in action. However it seems that the character is not what he seems. In fact, the Mandarin is nowhere near what the fans expect him to be. In trailers and pre-release advertising, Ben Kingsley appears in full garb with rings around his fingers. Considering what has transpired in recent "Avengers'" movies, many expected that the ten rings' superpowers would play a major role in the upcoming film. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Not even close.

According to What Culture, Ben Kingsley's character barely shows up for most of the first hour. With his house completely destroyed, Tony Stark travels to Florida to face off against the Mandarin at his home. He runs into the characters' bedroom and finds two women under the sheets. The "Mandarin" comes out of the bathroom and reveals that while he has appeared in promo videos as the villain, he is simply a paid actor working for the real villain Aldrich k!llian (played by Guy Pearce).

As it turns out, the character been completely subverted and those expecting Ben Kingsley to confront Iron Man in his Mandarin garb will be completely shocked and surprised.

What Culture concludes: "I'll give them credit; it was an extremely bold, brave move that I'm sure many other filmmakers would not have had the balls to do, but at the end of the day, is it worth the risk when it's possibly going to alienate or annoy half your audience? The film could have gone the more simplistic, down-the-road route of having Kingsley be the main villain and it wouldn't have been anymore the worse for it, whereas the path they've taken is most definitely going to be divisive, and may be more trouble in the long run."

The movie they opted to make was full of bad choices.

The opening scene was boring thats when the movie should grab you. BTW I like the song but it didn't fit.

I then got to experience Post Traumatic Stress Tony and relationship Tony for the first hour it seemed.

Then I got to experience the Tony Stark version of a ripley from Aliens. This got a little bit interesting when he outsmarted the female villain, and the interaction with the kid was funny in parts.

The movie then went full retard with the Mandarin twist. Not that the character they showed looked like anything else except Bin Laden to me.

Then some stuff gets blown up and the villains, who really have nothing interesting about them at all die. And Pepper goes all awesome (which was dumb) then I get to sit through 10 mins of credits to see a dumb end scene (which is a major let down considering how awesome they normally are).

What I hoped to see...

I went in expecting a back story of the Mandarin getting the rings as the opening scene Then possibly one or two other comic book characters popping up to help Tony as they defeat the Mandarins super type underlings until finally Iron Man defeats the Mandarin using science and strength along the way. And in between all that he would make his relationship stronger or weaker with pepper. And after all the credits another villan or avengers type scene.