The Mandarin...
Feb. 22nd, 2013 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
They've released publicity photos of Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin in Iron Man 3:

I've always loved Ben Kingsley, but here as The Mandarin he reminds me of how Mickey Rourke looked in Iron Man 2 - is it the scowl? The glasses? In any case... it doesn't make me feel better about the movie.
Mind you, it was just last month, on my umpteenth viewing of Iron Man, that I heard the name of the warmongering villains - the Ten Rings - and thought: "Ten Rings! Mandarin! Riiiight!"