A snow-dusted Christmas noir in a blockbuster's armor: a sleepless genius, haunted by a wormhole in the sky, finds that the man inside the metal shell is the only weapon he has left.
Iron Man 3
"Unleash the power behind the armor."
18 April 2013
United States of America
130 min
6.9
(23,841)
Director: Shane Black
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Trauma and PTSD
Identity and false faces
Manufactured fear and media manipulation
We create our own demons
Ingenuity over technology
Budget:
$200,000,000
Box Office:
$1,215,577,205
Iron Man 3 — Movie Quotes
Memorable Quotes
We create our own demons.
Context
Tony's voice-over opens the film, introducing it as a story told looking back.
Meaning
The film's thesis. It also nods to the classic Iron Man comic "Demon in a Bottle." Tony's villains are the consequences of what he himself did.
I am Iron Man.
Context
It's the final line, spoken after Tony gives up the reactor and the suits.
Meaning
It echoes the last line of the first film. Here it means Iron Man is who Tony is, not what he wears.
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