Rating:
3.9/5 (so far)*
With characters culled from Marvel Comics, we know for sure that
Iron Man 3
would be packed with spectacular action and nice razor sharp, witty
lines. When, the film begins with a voice-over which states - "A famous
man once said, we create our own demons. Never mind who the famous man
is." We are all the more confident about the same. The voice-over at the
very onset sets the tenor of the film.
The first scene ushers in a
New Year's party in Bern, Switzerland, heralding the new millennium
where a businessman-cum-genius inventor-cum mechanic Tony Stark (
Robert Downey Jr) is partying hard. The audience waits with baited breath to understand how he creates his own demons.
Iron Man 3 is the Superhero's journey of finding the demons he created and destroying them.
Flash
forward to the present day, following the attacks on New York where a
new terrorist, Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), is threatening to bring down the
US government. Tony is mentally fatigued. He is worn out with
confidence and anxiety issues. This causes a strain on his relationship
with Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow).
He is unable to sleep and so
he spends all his time developing a super cloak - The metallic shield
that can protect him. Created through advance mechanics, it assembles
itself around him and works on mental remote. Thus making him the
formidable - Iron Man. Meanwhile, a good looking bio-tech researcher and
geneticist Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), who has a grouse against Tony,
teams up with Mandarin. So it is super-villains versus Iron Man.
With
his back against the wall, Tony has to survive by his own devices,
relying on his creativity and instincts to protect himself and those
close to him. He has also to juggle a tense relationship with his old
buddy James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) and beautiful ex-girlfriend Maya
(Rebecca Hall). Along the way, Stark discovers the answer to the
question that has secretly haunted him - Does the man make the suit or
does the suit make the man? - IANS
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