I loved the twist. It's yet another example of Shane Black making a great commentary on big block buster cinema and how it can never have any sort of emotional resonance when you end every film with "Tony Start , or whomever, will return". There can never be emotional closure because there will always be another bad guy. Or in this case another movie.
Take the Barrel of Monkeys sequence. On it's own technically I rather enjoyed it. But everything about it from a production to a story context is inherintly false. Tony is never in the suit, he is never in real danger, he dose not go into PTSD over it because he is not there.
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