IRON MAN 3 - EVERY MAN FALLS, WHAT ABOUT A MACHINE?
Are
you ready for some metal-clanking battle between full body heavy duty machinery
suits versus hot-blazing superhumans? Then you should really get some time off
and watch this thrilling adventure of Marvel’s Iron Man 3. Shane Black (the director)
has done it again along with some other crash-and-burn action films such as
“Lethal Weapon”, “The Last Boy Scout”, and “Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang” which also
features Iron Man’s star Robert Downey Junior in 2005. The Iron Man franchise
has a delightful attitude considering that all the Iron Man movies are more
self-aware comedies than just some serious tight-faced dramas. The energy
emitted by this film manages to get audiences talk about it long after leaving
the cinema because of many of its memorable shots and beautiful filmography.
There’s
very little downtime between the exposition of the story and tense battles.
Tony Stark narrates the first part of the movie where back in a science
conference in Switzerland, 1999 a limping, wide-framed glasses guy, Aldrich
Killian (Guy Pearce) approaches his partner who is a supposed botanist, Maya
Hansen (Rebecca Hall) and tells about his proposal and how he’s been following
up on her work. Killian introduces his organisation, Advanced Ideas Mechanics
(AIM) while they were squeezed in an elevator, but Tony, as usual with his
ignorant attitude, shoves him aside. Maya, however, was interested in
collaborating with AIM.
Killian
came back after many years trying to impress Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow)
with a projection of the inside of his brain. However Potts turned him down
because she viewed his proposal of decoding the human’s DNA is highly
weaponizable.
Iron
Man 3 all boils down on Tony against an Osama bin Laden-esque terrorist guru
known as the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). He never grabbed Starks attention until
his best friend ended up in a coma caused by a mysterious explosion, a message
from the Mandarin. Tony swears revenge against the villain for injuring his
best friend by giving him his home address during a short press attack. The
Mandarin threatened to kill if the people of U.S. do not meet his demands. Tony
later finds out that the Mandarin just turns out to be a paid alcoholic junk
actor by Killian. This is one of those movies that builds on political cynicism
whereby politicians and arm dealers consolidate power and make money, but
doesn’t go beyond in detail just to keep the audiences in their seats.
Full of
witty remarks and funny script lines, it’s a good way for audiences to get
disconnected from the seriousness of the situation and the laws of physics for
a while before getting back into its gravitational action. Sometimes, its
violence stretches beyond the supposedly PG-13 rating with lethal gunplay and
moments of wanton cruelty. To make accounts for his than
The plot
hole of Iron Man is that Tony is the genius mechanic, but Jarvis did most of
the job saving the world here. Compared to the previous two Iron Man movies,
there’s a softer, more sensible new side of him, mainly because he is now with
his girlfriend Pepper Potts. He felt sorry and regret for being selfish and
stupid for putting her in harm’s way in which he did. She’s the damsel in
distress.
With help
(sort of…) from Don Cheaddle’s “Rhodey” Rhodes, aka War Machine (re-christened
Iron Patriot, both of them took down the Mandarin and saved the President. But
that doesn’t stop there. While still being chased by other superhuman villains
he has to face the ultimate villain behind all of this; Aldrich Killian who is
actually the most superior of his invention. Killian threatens to do the same
thing to Pepper as what he had done to all the other blazing superhumans, which
he already did. And when Tony thought that she had just died from falling into a
large fire, she suddenly came back to save him, turning things around at the
very end of the movie.
Parts of the
clips for the Mandarin were brilliantly edited and laid out, using flash-cuts
of terrorists training and lots of brutal killing. Tony's adversaries are
visually fresh but serve only as regular people with not much character to
play. The movie also successfully include Downey’s anti-sentimental and
hilarious character, he brings life to the movie. Cheadle has an easy-going
authority character while Paltrow is strong and charming onscreen, which isn’t
often enough.
The skydiving action sequence was a memorable moment in the movie
and one of the greatest airborne setpieces in movie history. The graphics
display and simulation captivates audiences with awesome upbeat music
composition and selection by Brian Tyler. The theme of the movie is also
articulated with about as much care. Storyline of the movie is mainly dominated
by Tony and Rhodey, but Black did sprinkled some soft touches into it by the
presence of Pepper in Tony’s life which has successfully provided the pathos
when he had a touching conversation with Pepper that's filled with regret over
bad roads she's taken. When Tony Stark's cliffside home is destroyed in the
first attack — a moment prominently showcased in trailers — the audience gasps
as if the film had shown a maniac slashing the Mona Lisa, and within this
film's value framework, it does seem an obscenity.
THIS MOVIE COULD DESERVE 5 STARS BUT DUE TO SOME LACKING ELEMENTS, WE CAN ONLY GIVE IT 4/5 STARS
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