It was just throwing a lot of suits on screen in the last five minutes(and it didn't even make sense,i mean it didn't cross his mind to use one or two of those suits when his house was under attack and Pepper was in danger) and it went so by the numbers it even had him giving up on being a hero to be with his girlfriend even when there was no build up just because that is what Spiderman 2,Batman Forever,and The Dark Knight did it. I saw every single thing coming from the opening scene,that is why I was shocked that it all played out the way i thought it would because I didn't think anyone would ever go that by the numbers.
I know that most people think that Iron man 3 was one of the best films ever made but I am sorry that I am not one of them and that saying it was anything other then perfect will put me on par with Hitler in most people's eyes but I can only be honest and say I found the humor lacking in energy,the drama comedic and badly written,and the plot to be boring. I'm sorry but I nearly fell asleep in the theater and I was looking forward to this movie. I really wanted to like it but it lacked the energy of the last two films,I saw the twists coming,and I am still not sure why he had to stop being Iron Man when the mess he was in started long before he became Iron Man and Pepper didn't fall in love with him until he started being Iron Man so it can't be for that reason and he has seen that bad things happen without Iron Man. The whole thing was a mess and it felt completely rushed. I'm sorry I am a writer so i guess I see movies in a different light then 99.9% of the population,the script is the most important part to me and I found this script to be very very weak. I'm sorry but i felt like I was watching someone's first draft of a fanfiction story and not a script someone was paid money to write. Sorry but that is just what i took away,I didn't enjoy it and it felt like it had been rushed out the door by the executives. i feel like maybe it could have worked if they had been given another year to work on the script and really flesh out the ideas and just pick one or two to really focus on but as it stands it's a mess. It has a ton of ideas but none of them are explored in enough depth or detail to really make an impact or even make a whole lot of sense. If I had to guess at what went wrong I would say the movie was rushed and either a first or second draft was used or they had a bunch of different Iron Man 3 scripts that were all unfinished so they just used bits and pieces of the different scripts to create one whole script. Either way what we got was so much less then what it could have and should have been.
Here is a perfect example. Our hero calls out a villain on TV and then take no steps whatsoever to protect himself or his girlfriend and they nearly die because of it. Now if the character doesn't care if he or his girlfriend lives then why should I? Then if i don't care then where does my investment in the action scene come from? Since I am not invested in it then it just becomes a lot of pointless noise. If this script had gone through a normal number of drafts someone would have picked up on this and fixed it by either changing the setting or having something happen that would keep Tony from being able to turn on any of his suits or defenses ahead of time,the setting would have been changed to some place where he couldn't get a hold of them. it wasn't,that is just one example of how this film feels rushed off the top of my head and I have not seen it since opening weekend.