Iron Man 3 officially premieres on Friday, but thanks to early media screenings as well as leaked streams and torrents of the film, there is no shortage of reviews already available online.
We've aggregated a few Iron Man 3 reviews below, including excerpts from our own. However, we strongly suggest you hold off on reading any reviews until you can see the film for yourself. In the meantime, suffice it to say that Iron Man 3 is pretty awesome.
WARNING: Massive Iron Man 3 spoilers follow
Iron Man 3 Review: iTech Post
"Genetically-modified soldiers or no, it didn't work for me. What makes Iron Man special is its similarity to Batman in being more 'realistic' than the prototypical comic book movie. The humor was great thanks to the winning teamwork again of Downey and Black. Though, I couldn't help feeling Stark seemed a bit like Downey's Harry from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. As much I loved that movie."
"For whatever the hell was going on in 'Iron Man 2', there was clearly more of an emphasis on the technology than the human aspects, and in 'Iron Man 3,' things are tipped the other way -- it's much more Tony Stark's movie than Iron Man's. For a large swath of the movie, he doesn't even have his suit and essentially becomes an unlicensed private eye, trying to put the pieces of a vast international conspiracy together using little more than his wits. It's a refreshingly low-tech approach."
"Don't worry too much about Iron Man's anxiety attacks (brought on by those 'Avengers' memories), the execution videos broadcast by anti-American terrorist The Mandarin (an enjoyable Ben Kingsley) or the gruesome lab experiments of bioengineer Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce). Iron Man is still the anti-Batman, all zip and zingers. He's also, suddenly, rather family-friendly. Some of the movie's best moments are shared by Stark and latchkey kid Harley (Ty Simpkins), who mock their budding father-son relationship while acting it out."
"It's a fantastic setup. Taking Stark out of his element allows him to veer away from the swaggering playboy schtick, and sets the stage for a real story of rebirth - culminating, one would assume, in an epic mano-a-mano confrontation. But that's where the film changes gears. The broken Iron Man suit gets left behind as Stark pounds the pavement the old-fashioned way. He teams up with several partners - first a precocious youngster played by Ty Simpkins, then with Don Cheadle's James Rhodes. Hints of noir surface as he gets into fights and scrapes along the way, every exchange punctuated with a slightly-meaner version of Stark's wit."
