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Red13n
If theres one thing you can add to make me hate a movie, its a child sidekick. And this movie just happens to have a child sidekick. There is no good reason to make Tony Stark, the dude that built the whole damn MCU in a cave, to have to rely on a child sidekick. This is a dude that is just starting to have issues with thinking the world is on the verge of potential cataclysmic alien invasion staking his fate with a 9 year old or however old he was. The whole premise just drives me crazy and absolutely hinders my enjoyment of everything else in this movie.

PrinceKaro
In the very iron-rich early days of the MCU we have this third movie where Tony finally confronts his classic comic nemesis, The Mandarin, that ancient chinese wizard with the ten magic rings and shit.
Oh hey, except it isn't that guy, this 'Mandarin' is a bad Osama Bin Laden cosplayer who makes vague threats in stereotypical terrorist videos. Before you say holy fuck how could they get an iconic character so wrong, it gets EVEN WORSE He is actually a drunken Irish stage actor! He is really just the puppet of... wait for it... an evil military industrial complex dude! Fuck off.
They supposedly didnt use the real Mandarin because he is culturally insensitive or whatever. Remember this is the same movie that has the laughably racist scene in the pakistani burka slave sweatshop.
The story weaves its way though ridiculous and convoluted shit with the writers determined to make their superhero characters as unsuper as possible. Tony does almost nothing as Iron Man in this movie. There always is some arbitrary reason he can't use the suit and it starts to get very silly. He is assisted by Rodney (who ALSO doesn't have his suit) and this annoying kid who just might be the worst character in the whole MCU holy fuck someone please drop him down a well and don't tell Lassie.
Half the time it almost feels like a rejected bond movie script they decided to stick iron man in. It honestly works better at that than a marvel one.
The story ends with the silly scene of him blowing up all his suits to focus on the more important things in his life like Pepper (well until next movie when he envisions an army of super-intelligent world-policing murderbots and nearly destroys the planet).
If there were any film that deserves to be excised from the MCU, it is this one. Literally nothing of value or continuity would be lost.

Maniac64
Probably going to be an unpopular opinion but I just did not get a lot of enjoyment out of this movie.
Turning the villain into an incredibly lame version of Fin Fang Foom was awful, as was pretty much everything to do with Extremis. I actually was fine with the Mandarin twist, legitimately caught me by surprise. Though I was also very glad when they revealed later that Mandarin did still exist.
The big scene with all the iron man suits was pretty cool but is one of those things that is much worse if you really think about it/on rewatch. Also the fact that Tony doesnt have any defenses on his house was absurd. And I found the long section of stuff with the little kid to be overall pointless. I just didnt like this movie.

BetrayedTangy
I hate this movie so much. I could literally rant about every aspect of it, but Im not. Im just going to focus on how garbage of a villain Aldrich Killian is. His motivation is stupid, the reveal of him being a villain is painfully obvious and they tried sooo freaking hard to make him look cool. Like if I wanted to see tatted up Guy Pearce Id go watch Memento. He wouldve been genuinely interesting if they just kept him a nerd and had him work behind the scenes the whole time carefully scheming and planning Tonys demise, but noooo he just had to flirt with Gwenyth Paltrow and walk around shirtless ugh. Screw this movie.

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