Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Molto più lineare e riuscito del secondo episodio, Iron Man 3 accentua il lato comico della serie, in perfetta continuità con il ruolo che Tony Stark si ritagliava già negli Avengers.
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- [New – 9/26] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Dam Batty @ Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second
- Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: In some ways, Iron Man 3 is more purely entertaining than The Avengers, its expectations not as high, its opposition not as pressing, its screentime not so stretched thin.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Not quite as much fun as Iron Man the first… but there are worse ways to welcome summer than with the low-key return of an old friend in good spirits.
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: Robert Downey Jr. carries this superhero saga with his wit and clever improvised quips.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: Dare I say it’s the best Iron Man film yet? I dare.
- Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
- Bob Cashill @ Popdose.com
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …the best of the Marvel films with its complex story, exciting action, great cast and special effects.
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: We see less of the CGI Shellhead we’ve come to love and more of Downey himself than we have in perhaps all of the series’ previous films combined. And that is not only not a bad thing. It’s sensational.
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Iron Man 3 se salva gracias al humor que tiene y a las espectaculares escenas de acción, porque tiene una trama malísima.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: “Iron Man 3” is by far the biggest and most spectacular entry in Marvel Studio’s centerpiece franchise. Despite being about as big, action-packed and noisy as you can make an action movie, this is also more introspective than its predecessors, actually inviting comparisons with the James Bond movie “Skyfall.”
- Xavier Donoso @ Cinerama.ec [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Impresionante acción, mucho humor y algunas sorpresas hacen de esta película una entretenida aventura.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: This [Tony] Stark is an anonymous shadow of his former self-promoting self.
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Excerpt: The typical story of man build robot, man wants to become robot, man loses robot, robot comes flying out of nowhere to save man’s life — a few times.
- Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Exciting and hugely entertaining, it’s an eye-popping spectacle with surprisingly clever, whimsical dialogue and wisecracking one-liners.
- Richard Gray @ Behind the Panels
- Excerpt: Marvel’s Cinematic Universe kicks off Phase 2 in style as Tony Stark has his biggest adventure to date.
- Steven Greydanus @ National Catholic Register
- Excerpt: It’s a potentially promising setup for a slam-bang finale to what has been, despite its flaws, one of the brightest and most entertaining franchises around. Unfortunately, the slapdash plot is pretty much a disaster.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: More ED-209 than Robocop…
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: This could be the whip-smartest and most affecting superhero movie yet…
- Daniel Kelly @ Danland Movies
- Excerpt: “Iron Man 3” kicks off this new movement with confidence and style, helping to alleviate most of the problems that plagued 2010’s patchy but not-awful “Iron Man 2”.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Excerpt: After a disappointing second outing, the Iron Man superhero mythology returns with a highly satisfying third film that remembers what made the first one so good in the first place.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Josh Larsen @ LarsenOnFilm.com
- Excerpt: A shrug of a film…that has the diminutive stature of a DVD extra.
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: … the best Iron Man yet, thanks to Shane Black, who pushes characterization, plot twists, not frenetic effects … Downey finally drops his guard, shows the heart beneth the armor.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: Tony Stark is once again fighting terrorists in the first follow-up to the massively successful team-up film “The Avengers.” “Iron Man 3” comes out swinging and sets a high point against which all other successors must compare.
- Joe Lozito @ Big Picture Big Sound
- Excerpt: The third time’s a charmer for this Marvel franchise, thanks to a clever script and, of course, its inimitable star.
- Piers Marchant @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: Like all Iron Man films, it’s kind of a wild rollercoaster of witty banter and slam-bang action ingenuity, but it mines the humanity of its titular hero in a way its predecessors seemed to laugh off.
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Ryan McNeil @ The Matinee
- Excerpt: Tony Stark finds himself on his most difficult mission yet: fighting back.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- R. Kurt Osenlund @ SouthPhillyReview.com
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Marvel meets Shane Black in Iron Man 3, which eschews some of the more comic book elements of Marvel’s previous films in the creation of something both darker and more darkly comedic.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Downey’s performance buoy’s a plot that is – let’s face it – completely canned.
- Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: All this is meaningless, because Iron Man 3, or 4, or 5, or 10, is not the draw. The draw is the long, slow burn that is The Avengers 2.
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Iron Man in Dark Knight territory, and all the worse for it.
- Phil Villarreal @ COEDMagazine.com
- Excerpt: Damn, Iron Man loses his clothes more often than a Kardsashian
- Andrew Wyatt @ Look / Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: Between the wall-to-wall product placements and a clumsy attempt to turn the film into a Serious Issues feature about PTSD, Iron Man 3 feels remarkably hollow.
I have been waiting for iron man to come out since I was a little boy reading comics. The first iron man was great, it was new, and something people have never scene before. The second iron man in my opinion was good but had many of the normal viewing society members slightly disappointed. It still held one of the best fight scenes done by marvel yet. But iron man 3 with Shane black was a slight let down. The idea was great! But failed in being true to the comics and lacked in greatness. If this was suppose to be the start of marvels second coming than it was nothing like the first iron man! It was ruined with the portray of the Mandarin and keeping Tony out of his suit! Yes it had is classic Tony Stark humor (which I loved) but still let me down with iron man. Tony Stark is Iron man and don’t forget that! Let’s not forget to mention not putting Rhodey in a suit for the final battle! Ohh myy sweet gentle Jesus! What could you be thinking! And the ending credits! Thank you for making me stay an extra hour for absolute crap! Now yes, I will still buy the blu ray bc I love marvel an iron man. And for all the extra awesomeness that comes with it. I just hope to see more from the son of Oden and Mr. Steve Rogers since they rushed those two films the first time around.