It's not clouding my judgement, I think I just gave the wrong impression by my post. I enjoyed the movie plenty overall, but the story wasn't very solid, and had a lot of the hallmarks of the people involved. It's not unexpected for a recent action movie though, just thought I'd point it out as a comparison to Ghost Protocol, which I enjoyed a little more (not that I'm arguing that Ghost Protocol was perfect, as they didn't even seem to know how magnets work). I enjoyed them both for what they are.
I do enjoy the silliness of the masks, but I like that they had to work around it in Ghost Protocol. The entire time I was watching that scene in 3, I could only laugh at the idea that they managed to take some photos in those circumstances with a moving subject with minimal angles and perspective parallax, do some perfect photogrammetry instantly with no major post-cleanup, use a portable CNC lathe that somehow worked on latex including the interior (or maybe the latex was a secondary process which would have raised even more problems), then some machine could spray paint it perfectly at speed, then they apply perfect hair that quickly and seamlessly, then put the mask on without any need for makeup (or even adhesive?) to blend it into the existing skin. Ridiculous in 2015, let alone back then.
Do they think the audience knows nothing about photogrammetry, subtractive prototyping, and makeup effects?!