Opinion / The Avengers may rock – but which is the worst film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
While many of the films, including Captain America: Civil War and Captain Marvel, may have sparkled at the box office, not all of them were gems
Now that Avengers: Endgame has finally hit the cinemas, most fans should have taken the opportunity to see it.
The story arc that culminated in a head-on collision with the crazy Titan, Thanos, is finally over and we can all take a collective breath, while we wait to see where the Marvel Cinematic Universe will take us next.
However, hindsight being 20/20, while we were always eagerly awaiting the next instalment in the superhero universe – starting with 2008’s Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr, which was a big box-office hit – it seems some of us overlooked the fact that several of the 22 films were not that good.
It’s time to look back to see how these films fared, not by box office results, but according to whether they had substantial plots and were good enough to see as stand-alone films.
Check out the five that did not make the cut for us.
Iron Man 3
Iron Man 2 is one of the films in the franchise that audiences love to hate, but we feel that the third instalment was more problematic than the second one.
The Mandarin is Iron Man’s greatest nemesis and, while the switch in actors from Ben Kingsley to Guy Pearce was a cool way to reinvent the character while avoiding its racist origins, the Mandarin died straight after admitting who he was – leaving most of the audience hanging.
Also, we got a glimpse of all the versions of Iron Man suits that Downey Jr’s character, Tony Stark, had made – only for him to destroy all of them after the fight … why?