I liked Ironman 3.
Mind you, I have no idea about super hero lore and how it supposed to be outside Batman, and Watchmen.
The Mandarin twist was strange (funny as heck too) but good. It's one of the few twists in a movie in ages that I didnt see coming from a mile away aka super obvious.
From the little I think I know the Mandarin was supposed to be of Chinese origin or something but meh, they change origin in movies depending on time period. Plus getting tired of the obvious the foriegner is always the villain kind and the American is the wholesome good old boy super hero. It was funny to see this big bad dude in the previews is nothing more than some actor putting on a show and the real villain is (or was up to that point) behind the scenes. That is pretty realistic how it works many times, especially in this time period of mankind, especially in the corporate world. Many corporations put on this image of clean wholesome, looking out for the people and the foreigner is the big bad villain but it's the american corporation that funded, gave them weapons, and gave them access to the local soil to do the dirty work so they can sell more, say for example, security systems or help push a law into being. Of course the face gets blamed, and the corporate suits walk away with lot of money and clean hands. Or like cheap products. Owned by american corporation, cheap easy to use but the dirt they hide is they contribute more to the economy to say China upper levels than they do to the American economy that bails them out while getting laid off so these corporations can go to Asia and have people 18 hour shifts for money where they cant even afford a roof in their own country with no benefits in conditions that would make the JP Morgan(the person) blush. Yet turn around on US tv saying they dont support the human rights issue of a specific Asian country work conditions when at the same time they own 85% of those places.
