I don't even really give a fukk about the Mandarin twist. A lot of that was fake outrage because while he's a memorable Ironman villain....Ironman himself was always a B tier character prior to the MCU. People reacted like they fukked up Magneto or something.
The movie was ass because his suits were damn near made of Legos this entire movie. He got hit by a car and one fell apart, for Christ sake. I get that they were prototypes but it came off as "let's just have RDJ run around for 2 hours" which is not what I paid to see.
Whole movie was full of just....dumb shyt. No other way to put it. He gives his address out to terrorists, they pull up and blow his whole shyt up. His
entire reason for existing is weapons and/or armor creation....how in
the fukk does 2-3 helicopters get the drop on where he lives?
The whole "Pepper Potts is a super hero" sub-plot. Which they just said "fukk it" and dropped abruptly after this movie.
The "real Mandarin" in the movie being a disgruntled nerd, basically.
I liked the PTSD angle and his interactions with the kid. And him building random shyt when he infiltrated the mansion. That was dope. But over all the movie is awful.
I see people saying other MCU movies....most of them aren't bad. The MCU's main problem is a gang of their movies are just kinda....there. To move the plot forward towards Thanos. So I don't mind them in a "going through the motions" sort of way. But "IM3" is actually, legitimately,
bad.
Fred.