Marvel Second Batch
I am deliberately avoiding lumping these reviews with the specific Phases used by the MCU. I put Captain Marvel in my first batch as my memories from it were pretty fresh and it took place before all the other films. Nonetheless these entries will probably stay pretty close to that template. As always spoilers abound so I suggest watching the films first. Iron Man 3 (2013) Iron Man 3 is a superior sequel than Iron Man 2, with a clear theme and better plot. Initially I was a little mixed on it, feeling that there were too many suits in the climax and I was less than intrigued by the Extremis effects. I still agree with a lot of these concerns, in fact I wonder how they even manage the logistics of the sequence of not only this, but each Marvel climax which requires actors to react in odd ways to all kinds of things happening in the air to and around them. There was a controversial decision to have the popular Mandarin villain from the comics be a decoy for the actu