Iron Man 3 in a nutshell: that’s just what it is. Just a shell with no nut inside of it to protect. Albeit a very handsome, very witty, very polished nutshell, it’s still only good for a one-night stand or a week’s fling at the most. It’s no marriage material. It ain’t got no soul. And you won’t want to eat it.

Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.), if you haven’t been following the series so far, is a playboy inventor who, after getting into a bit of a scrape somewhere in the Middle East, fashions himself a suit of armor with which to fight crime and global terrorism, thus turning into Iron Man. After dealing with space aliens in The Avengers, Tony goes back to his home in L.A. for a little R & R with his new girlfriend Virginia “Pepper” Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). Little does he know that the past is about to come back to bite him in the rear end in the form of the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), a vaguely Asian terrorist who has stereotypically terrorist designs on America.

The movie just seems to cut straight to the point…here’s a prime example of how foolish our Iron Man hero can be. Should be quite simple to guess what will happen to Mr. Stark after this statement he makes in the film:

Tony Stark: “Here’s a little holiday greeting I’ve been wanting to send to the Mandarin. I just didn’t know how to phrase it until now. My name is Tony Stark and I’m not afraid of you. I know you’re a coward. So I’ve decided that you just died pal. I’m gonna come get the body. There’s no politics here, it’s just old fashioned revenge. There’s no pentagon, it’s just you and me. And on the off chance you’re a man, here’s my home address, 10880 Malibu Point 90265, I’ll leave the door unlocked. That’s what you wanted, right?”

Funny thing is…that address doesn’t even exist in real life. It’s actually a just a very popular beach area chosen by directors for filming known as Point Dume. The Normandy landings of the film D-Day the Sixth of June were filmed at Point Dume, and important scenes in the Planet of the Apes series were also filmed at Point Dume’s Westward Beach.

Jests aside, the film was still very enjoyable; it included a lot of action scenes mixed with some comedic relief from Robert Downey Jr. This film was his last solo salvation gimmick as a superhero. The Nest gives a 8.5/10 and says farewell to The Great Gatsby…oops, we mean…Iron Man.