Basically mediocre-to-good. About a 6, I guess. Good: -Tony Stark is emotionally scarred from the events of Avengers -Tony Stark has to make do with crappy, busted Iron Man suit -Good variety of set pieces (Tennessee kitchen/town fight --> saving people falling from a plane) -Some snappy (perhaps to a fault) dialogue Bad: -Guy Pearce's character was embarrassingly cliche. -"Wait, why isn't Tony flying all of his Iron Man suits around his house? He just dared a renowned terrorist to kill him on live TV. And then he wears the new prototype suit, and it's later established that the suit's weapons weren't ready. Why wouldn't he use one of the 4 dozen other suits he has?" -"How did the Iron Man suit run out of power? I thought Tony Stark's heart powered it? His heart seems fine right now, so why is the suit off?" -"Wait, so heating up Iron Patriot will damage it? How come this is said and never brought up again? I know Tony kills what's-his-face with a shot through the chest, but it's never established that Tony knows about the weak-spot, (if the weak-spot exists at all). -"Oh, so he's just been using a busted-out Iron Man suit up until the end for, why? I thought the point of blowing up Stark's house was that he *didn't* have any more gadgets. Could none of those new suits blast through that big metal door with like 3 rocks on it? They had to wait for some guys with brooms? What?" -"So he just blows up the incredibly useful, incredibly expensive superhero robots for... no reason? Romantic fireworks? Tony, your problem was *supposed* to be that you almost died and your worldview has been shaken from the foundations. Sure, building suits was a coping mechanism, but it was a *damn good* coping mechanism that made everyone safer. This fixes nothing and ruins everything." -"Wait, why would Iron Man even have a remote-self-destruct program for all his suits? Aren't, you know, *people* supposed to pilot these? Do you have an eject/parachute system too? No, because it didn't eject Pearce. Okay, so do you at least have to give like a password? No, he just says "blow suit 43." What? Gee, Tony I sure hope a bad guy never says the word "blow" around you, or you're bacon." -The "emotionally scarred" point just kinda dissolves away for no real reason -Twist was unexpected, but the villain we get to replace Kingsley is lame -"Okay, so these are all just US military amputees? Wouldn't they be, like, incredibly dedicated to their country or something? Did they all get mind-control chips that made them assholes?" -"Oh, I guess we're just doing anything at the ending to make us forget that we dumped the actual character conflict around half-way through and never returned to it. Blowing up suits? No one hated the suits, and the suits weren't doing anything wrong, so it resolves nothing. Fixing his chest? His chest / his being Iron Man had nothing to do with anything in the movie. He might as well have gotten it taken out any time for all the meaning it has here. What is this maudlin, meaningless crap? Is this some kinda Adam Sandler flick?"