There is no denying that “Iron Man 3” is a fun watch but it suffers from two fatal flaws that ruin it as an “Iron Man” movie. It ends up being about as good as the equally disappointing second film.

Set after the events of “Avengers Assemble”, we see America hit by a wave of terrorist attacks by a charismatic villain named Mandarin (Ben Kingsley “Hugo”, “Gandhi”) so superhero Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr. “U.S. Marshals”, “Chaplin”) goes to save the day. Unfortunately we seem to get far more of his alter ego Tony Stark (even during the action scenes) and that’s a real disappointment as for the villain… I’ll get into that in a minute.

Iron Man/Tony Stark isn’t quite as bland as he was in “Iron Man 2” but he lacks the correct type of lines that made him work so well in the first film. I really disliked how little we actually get of Iron Man. The villain has to be the biggest disappointment in the entire movie as Ben Kingsley plays him really well but because of a clever twist, which seems out of place in this kind of picture, we end up not seeing a great big battle with arguably Iron Man’s most famous enemy and instead we get lumped with a bland one named Killian (Guy Pearce “Memento”). I really liked the kid in it.

As flawed as the second film was we still got to see a lot of Iron Man so you can see how I’m disappointed and the Mandarin villain is just hugely annoying. I had some good laughs with this film and the action scenes are alright but the film is just murdered by the two things I keep mentioning. There is a scene where Iron Man rescues people falling out of a plane which is very silly as the people would never be able to hear what he’s saying. All-round it’s kind of fun but it just is frustrating.