Everyone enters the movie theater with just one question in mind; does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man, and by the time you finish watching the movie you’d know that it does not matter with Iron Man 3. This film does not bring too many new tricks to the table, but it does offer some explosive action.

The movie starts with Christmas Eve in the year 1999, where a nerd named Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) pitches a project proposal to Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) which he turns down because he is busy partying. Cut to present day where Tony is facing the after effects of fighting off the aliens in The Avengers, which has made him anxiety filled and sleepless. He tries to confine himself to his better half Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) where she asks him to slow it down. While all this is going on, America is facing a new terror threat from a guy called Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) who starts by saying, “Some call me a terrorist, I call myself a teacher.” He is made to sound and act like a version Bin Laden-meets-Bond.

Tony issues a warning to Mandarin to leave America alone or come fight him, which makes Mandarin attack Tony’s home making it look like Ground Zero. Tony has developed an action-synced Iron Man suit, which saves his life when he is lying on the ocean bed under the debris of his own home and takes him to a safe place. From here starts Tony’s journey to discover the nexus between Killian and Mandarin and save his nation from this threat.

Tony meets a kid named Harley (Ty Simpkins) who helps him kickstart his new journey of self-discovery. He brings him food and tools to make him jump back into action. Harley proves to be Tony’s most resolute assistant. He helps Tony get power back in his suit and find out that a biologist, Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall), has joined hands with Killian to make a formula to hack into human DNA and also be able to upgrade it as per need. And they are working with Mandarin to hold America hostage.

Tony is joined by Colonel Rhodes (Don Cheadle) and his Iron Patriot suit variant of Iron Man to help him solve this mystery and save the world.

The best part of the movie is RDJ himself, who spends more time outside the suit than in it, and the humour and wit of his character, the free falling scene where Iron Man rescues people mid-air, the little kid and most importantly Mandarin. This makes it an action packed plus entertaining movie with an intense climax to end it. It might not be the best movie of the trilogy but it keeps you glued to the screen because of the storyline and the plot.

This movie gets 4 out of 5 stars from me for making our weekend superhero-filled.

- Pankaj Ahuja
Published in Vol.1.Issue.08 of eFiction India

 

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Pankaj Ahuja is a superhero while playing Halo and Warcraft on his X-box when he is not working in exchange of shoes in his normal life. Music and movie have made him able to deal with people around him since 1985. In his free time, he would be found applying his bargaining skills in public.