Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall), and on-again, off-again best bud and fellow shellhead, Rhodey Rhodes (Don Cheadle), whose government-owned War Machine has been painted red, white and blue and redubbed The Iron Patriot.

(voiced by Paul Bettany), botanist and former one-night-stand Dr. Impulsively challenging The Mandarin to literally bring the fight to his doorstep, Tony inadvertently invites a world of hurt upon himself, live-in girlfriend Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), resident artificial intelligence J.A.R.V.I.S. That said, you aren’t likely to have this much fun, laugh this hard or applaud this loud while watching any other comicbook spectacle this year. For all its bravado and arc-wrapping aspirations, Black’s wry action-comedy is more IM4 than IM3, and works better as a solid one-off or a second trilogy opener than a proper close to Marvel’s Phase One Stark saga. (IM3 handily breezes past the god-awful Iron Man 2 while narrowly inching by Jon Favreau’s original Iron Man.) Is it a flawless fling? A perfectly fantastic hurrah? For that matter, is it a more effective Iron Man 3 than Joss Whedon’s The Avengers? No, no and… no. Iron Man 3 is a far better film than its detractors give it credit, though, quite a different film than the one most will experience during their first viewing, and one that does indeed best each Iron Man that comes before it. Would-be filmfans responded with equally impassioned jeers and cheers when the eagerly anticipated, billion-dollar summer blockbuster debuted in theaters particularly the disenfranchised comicbook readers among you who were none too fond of filmmaker Shane Black and co-writer Drew Pearce’s controversial but fearless take on The Mandarin, the foremost villain in Tony Stark’s corner of the Marvel Universe. The simply but aptly titled Iron Man 3 falls somewhere between divisive third-parter and undisputed trilogy topper.

Even rarer is the fabled Trilogy Topper: a film that outclasses its predecessors and stands tall and proud as the unmistakably best of the bunch. More often than not, even the best Part IIIs are divisive, and only a select few deliver something truly special. When was the last time you walked out of the third film in a trilogy with a grin on your face? Trilogy cappers are notoriously tough nuts to crack.

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