User blog comment:LoveWaffle/We Didn't See It Coming - Iron Man 3 and the Future of the MCU/@comment-2031194-20130513221732

I understand what you're saying about the Mandarin... still wish he was an actual super villain though. He's basically Iron Man's arch enemy, and it was a total let down to me. Yeah, it was different from other villains. I can appreciate a twist, but when I was expecting him as the main villain (not Killian who was weird), it ruined the movie for me. Up to the Mandarin reveal I still had hope for the movie, but in the end I think it only deserves a 3/5. There were a handful of other problems I had with the movie, like why didn't he just send for one of his other armors when he was in Tennessee? And I felt it was stupid that he got "lost and on his own" in the middle of the US. I was expecting China. The scenery change would have been a lot cooler.