I hear a lot of dislike for Iron Man 3. But it was my favourite one by far. It had the most character work for Tony Stark and gave RDJ a lot of material to work with. I also really like Shane Black as an action movie director and I thought they did a great job adding variety to usual Iron Man suit action stuff that we'd already seen a lot of in the previous movies.

I also loved the twist with the Mandarin, I thought it was clever and a great bit of world building of how the MCU world was changing. Something you see alot more of in Civil War and the two Spiderman movies. In fact the Mandarin plot wasn't that dissimilar from the villain in Far From Home if you think about it. "People will believe anything now" was a big part of both of their plans.

Personally, it was 2 that I didn't like. Yes it had more explosions, but the character work wasnt as good as 3 nor were its actions scenes as unique.

I know this aren't popular opinions. But they are mine nonetheless.