[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Just watched it with my son. We really enjoyed it. Alot better than 2, maybe better than 1. It's funny, it was basically an Iron Man film grafted onto the Shane Black formula. With a few revisions, this could have been another Lethal Weapon flick. A lot of scenes and dialogue were pure Shane Black. I like how the entire middle act with the kid was basically kept hidden from the trailers.

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A lot of fans will probably be upset by the Mandarin thing. Truthfully, it was kinda corny....and if your gonna use an iconic comic character like that, why use him at all? Why not just change the character name?

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I was too kinda disappointed bc all the buzz was this was Ironman's archrival and all the talk about how his history with him made for some of the best plots in the Ironman canon.

Also, I was very into Kingsley's performance and how menacing he came off- like it was building up to some really awesome chess match between the two.
Really seemed to be establishing by far the best villain of the 3 flicks.

I would really enjoy if there was a follow up where somehow Kingsley's character actually does transform into the Mandarin. As I understand in the comics he finds the rings which are alien origin, so what if he came upon the rings and it caused him to take on his Mandarin act for real and no longer just pretending to be him.

Yeah, it may be cheesy or a stretch but I would really love to see Kingsley return to the role and actually get a true movie pitting the two against one another.