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| Iron Man 3 (2013) Paramount |
An old popular plotline in superhero comics is the ‘demons
from the past’ plot which never seems to get old because it allows writers
to bring new villains to the forefront that have been lingering around for
years. I think it is important to note that the theme of these movies often
orbits around things that the protagonist could’ve done better to stop these
people from rising to their evil plots. It’s somewhat a joke when you think
about it because there were plenty of things that troubled these people before
they became evil. It’s not the superheroes fault, but they take the blame for
it like in Iron Man 3 where Stark blames himself for starting this mess.
Aldrich Killian was supposedly thankful for Stark treating
him the way he did because it allowed him to become desperate enough to become
evil. His whole goal during the film is to create another war on terror where
he owned the villain and somehow had the war supplies. Although it is only
mentioned briefly, Killian had lots of military contracts but mostly focused on
the extremis project. He didn’t really have any weapons other than the people he
manipulated. In fact he was so understaffed that some of his security teams
literally gave up on the spot and he had to do all the video production of the Mandarin
himself as shown in a scene where he was getting different camera angles to publicly kill the President and suggests they do a technical run through first. So
you basically want me to believe that not only does Killian basically work
alone, but he more resources than S.H.I.E.L.D. and he is able to infiltrate government officials all by himself? He can override all
television programming and get to the presidents cell phone and I guess this
means I should just assume he has people on the job even though they are never
to be seen on camera.
Perhaps Aldrich Killian and AIM are part of something bigger?
I am trying to suspend my disbelief, but wouldn't it be
logical for the next guy in command take over after Killian is dead? Since this
is such a vast organization should I also assume that other people are still in
charge? Wouldn't it be pointless for Iron Man to blow up his specialized suits
if there is just another imminent attack or will some other superhero actually show up when there is a terrorist threat?
(Oh btw, Killian is as bad of a name as General Grievous... so dumb)
Besides all of the tech talk and flimsy side character
story lines, the movie in it of itself seems very self-serving to mostly Stark.
Sure he was trying to recover from the difficulties of ‘New York’ but I feel
like he is a little stronger than that as a character. I feel like this was a
character piece made for the sole purpose of making Tony Stark seem like a
person, but he already was one. He made mistakes in every film and seemed
somewhat believable as a person putting their life back together during the
Avengers. He eventually makes the sacrifice to put his life on the line and it
now it becomes something that gives him panic attacks. From a guy that once
dodged a tank shell, was shot at with missiles, killed his lifelong mentor, killed dozens of other ironman
drones on top of an evil villain bent on showing the world Iron Man could be injured, fought off an alien invasion, and has been almost killed by his own
blood, it seems like a stretch to say that he is now worried about this one
other brush with death.
I don’t mean to marginalize his achievements as a character,
but Iron Man 3 was not my favorite movie. It was better than the second film,
but it still lacked a decent villain (let’s be honest, it was basically just
Guy Pierce we hated as we always do), it lacked believability, and it focused on a guy
rebuilding his life for the fourth movie in a row.
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