Originally Posted by redfox

Yeah, I'm not a big fan. IMO, it's kinda haphazard and all over the place. Apparently there were alot of changes and re-writes as the film progressed. Rebecca Hall, the actress who played Maya Hansen, later said that the role she signed-on to and role she played were drastically different:

“I signed on to do something that was a substantial role. She wasn’t entirely the villain – there have been several phases of this – but I signed on to do something very different to what I ended up doing. Halfway through shooting they were basically like, ‘What would you think if you just got shot out of nowhere?’ I was meant to be in the movie until the end… I grappled with them for a while and then I said, ‘Well, you have to give me a decent death scene and you have to give me one more scene with Iron Man,’ which Robert Downey Jr. supported me on.”