Ironclad
It is the year 1215 and the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal to the Magna Carta, a noble, seminal document that upheld the rights of free-men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter, the King reneged on his word and assembled a mercenary army on the south coast of England with the intention of bringing the barons and the country back under his tyrannical rule. Barring his way stood the mighty Rochester castle, a place that would become the symbol of the rebel';s momentous struggle for justice and freedom.
29 September 1971, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK
1 June 1946, Dundee, Scotland, UK
10 October 1946, Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
3 March 1986, Newport Beach, California, USA
25 September 1966, Putney, London, England, UK
1946, Anglesey, Wales, UK
12 June 1979, Bishop Auckland, England, UK
16 October 1947, New York City, New York, USA
3 June 1964, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
27 February 1983, Bedford, New York, USA
25 May 1958, Bermondsey, London, England, UK
14 July 1956, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
July 14, 2011
What saves the flick is Paul Giamatti's John, played as a petulant, damaged man born in a world where he wields the power of a god and inevitably rages as that power is snatched away.
July 08, 2011
The problem is that the movie is only swords and stage blood. The suits of armor are all empty.
January 29, 2012
Terrific action spectacle and a great tattered and beaten performance from Paul Giamatti, but the film is largely lifeless and dull.
July 11, 2011
Good gravy, if you're looking for satisfyingly bloody swordplay, look no further.
July 22, 2011
Most of the movie is so bland and has such a lack of passion for characters or story that it makes you wonder why anyone cared enough to make it.
July 08, 2011
Ironclad is as weighed-down as it sounds.
July 08, 2011
As a critic who complains about painless and brainless action movies, I hoist a glass of mead to the men and maidens of "Ironclad."
July 18, 2011
James Purefoy's Marshal is still bound by his Templar oaths, but will he be able to preserve his vow of chastity when Kate Mara's lady of the castle starts fondling his great big Templar sword?
July 08, 2011
A gore-filled guilty pleasure...
July 08, 2011
Like Takashii Miike's 13 Assassins, Ironclad takes a familiar genre-the historical action picture-and colors it blood-red.
July 08, 2011
The loud, closely photographed limb-hacking becomes as monotonous as the movie's unrelentingly gray palette.
