Unable to sleep since New York, Stark loses the house, the suits and most of the certainty, and has to work out what is left.
It is a film about a man having a panic attack for two hours, disguised as a blockbuster. The suits malfunction, fall apart, or are somewhere else, and he spends the middle of it in a small town with a borrowed coat and no powers at all.
The twist about the villain divided people permanently, which is worth knowing before you meet it. What is not in dispute is that the film is unusually interested in what happened to Stark after the previous one.
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Released: May 3, 2013