Everyone has a favorite MCU movie. Avengers: Infinity War, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are all generally regarded as the best MCU has to offer. The flip side is also true. If you read forums and social media for long enough, plenty will passionately tell you about how a batch of Marvel movies – Eternals, Thor: The Dark World, and Quantumania all spring to mind – are undeniable flops.
Then there’s Iron Man 3. Not quite a success (though the $1.2 billion box office would beg to differ) and not quite a failure, the Shane Black-directed threequel feels like the poster child for Marvel’s forgotten middle-of-the-road mediocrity. Upon a revisit for its 10th anniversary, it’s clear that it’s overflowing with style, charm, and charisma – something that Marvel’s post-Endgame era has been struggling to find.
