'Iron Man 3' first trailer review

The first (if you don't count the trailer for this trailer ) trailer for the third Iron Man movie has arrived with huge blast-off and here are my toughts about it. Now I enyoyed both Iron Man and Iron Man 2, having to admit the second one was worse, but still fairly enyoyable and I am really curious about how will they do the third part, as it's actually set after the events of The Avengers. One of the more notable changes was switching director Jon Favreau with Shane Black, a guy mostly known by writing the Lethal Weapon franchise and directing the comedy-noir film Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Doesn't really sound like the obvious choice to direct an Iron Man movie, but the trailer itself is cool and gives a good impression to look forward.

The trailer shows Tony Stark's world falling apart (literally, sometimes) and shows that the events in The Avengers left a mark on him and that he is only concentrated to protect Pepper Potts, which of course, doesn't go by plans. The epic part of the trailer is when the suits start blowing up and we hear the monologue of the mighty movie villain: The Mandarin. His epic voice saying "some people call me a turrrist" makes a cool villain impression, but the way he looks doesn't. I don't know anything about Iron Man outside of the movies, so I don't really know anything about Mandarin, but as Ben Kingsley, he just seems like that classic old-guy villain. I more prefer younger actors as villains in roles of more untypical villains, like Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow, Heath Ledger as The Joker and similar. 

There are a few things in the trailer, that are making me ask questions (in a positive way).  We get  a glimpse at Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian, which I am also not sure if he's a villain or not. Personally, I'd rather see Guy Pearce play a real villain  in this movie, but I think the trailer is trying to fool us. His image appearing while Tony Stark saying "there's a hundred people that wanna kill me" is just a bit too obvious. There's also that insanely cool red-blue Iron Man in the middle of the trailer (which is not Tony Stark). I see people calling him "The Iron Patriot" or something in the comments (as I've said, Iron Man n00b here), so what is he, an Iron Man/Captain America merge? I read a bit about him on the Internet and realised, he's actually supposed to be Norman Osborn...wait what?! That left even more confused, as the trailer doesn't really answer if he's good or bad, but I like that, as even if he's a villain, I'll root for him. Just look at the guy!

 'MERICA!

One of the things that also makes me scratch my head, is figuring out the tone of the movie. The first two movies were fun, a bit serious in parts, somewhere above The Avengers and below The Amazing Spider-Man (on a superhero darkness scale from Batman & Robin to Watchmen), but this movie looks far darker, actually a bit resembling TDKR. Which is slightly weird, going into a completely different direction after the light and fun Avengers, but we'll see. After all, the movie does come out in May, and this trailer was just here to highlight some new things and show us, that they're not laying back and letting it sweep money and actually doing something to conclude a solid movie trilogy. Or not? 

So what did you think of the trailer? What do you think of Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin so far? What roles do you think Aldrich Killian and The Iron Patriot (or whatever he is) will play? Check out the trailer here, comment below, let me know!