Iron Man 3 Review

     So the summer movie season is here this is the best time of the year for movies. I like this season better than Oscar season. Summer movies will not win any awards, but I have a blast the entire time I'm there. The first big summer movie is Iron Man 3. I just saw it and I want to write about it.  
      Iron Man 3 is the beginning of Marvel's "phase two" meaning this is the second set of movies about The Avengers. You really see Tony Stark dealing with the aftermath of the events that transpired in The Avengers. He's suffering from severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, he can't sleep, so he just throws himself into his work. So he's dealing with that and then the Manderin starts reeking havoc on the world. He was played by Ben Kingsley and he did a great job. In my opinion he is the biggest threat to Tony Stark that we've seen.  
    The main things I loved about the movie is that it does a very good job at showing that Tony Stark's intellect is his best weapon. In the first Iron Man movie when he builds the suit of armor in the cave when he was captured, he didn't have any of his cool technology he could rely on. His intellect was all he had. In Iron Man 2 there was no scene like that. Another thing I liked was that there was a kid in the movie, usually I'm against having a kid in a comic book movie because they're usually really annoying. This kid was annoying but in a different way. He had some good dialogue with Tony Stark and overall I thought the scenes with him in it were written really well. The other thing I loved was that the final showdown was very good. Unlike in Iron Man 2 where the final fight was very anti climactic, this movie's final fight scene was very engaging and very well done.   
    Some gripes I've heard was that Iron Man didn't get enough screen time. Similar to The Dark Knight Rises we saw more of Bruce Wayne than Batman. However in the final scene of the movie we see a lot of Iron Man and that scene was awesome. This isn't necessarily a gripe with the movie it just needs to be addressed. There is so much content in the movie it's not for casual watching. It's not just something to have on in the background while you do something else. You need to be fully invested in it. Also for those of you who don't know there's always a post credit scene in these Avengers build up movies. There is a post credit scene in this movie but it doesn't point to anything pertaining to another Avenger or villian.
      Overall this was a very enjoyable movie. I like the first Iron Man movie a little bit more than this one, but it is still worth checking out. I give this one 4 out of 5 stars.