The Man With the Iron Fists Reviews
Top CriticAs befits a Tarantino-endorsed production, the anachronisms, one-liners and clashing acting styles are ostensibly part of the fun, but both the martial arts and the slightly dull narrative patchwork are too choppily edited to gain much of a foothold.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Lunatic, slipshod, absurdly violent, horribly acted, and borderline incomprehensible.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
There's little happening here except slavish imitation and embarrassing hackwork.
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| Original Score: 1/4
If Iron Fists is sometimes badly made, it is refreshingly badly made.
The blood spurts, the knives shoot out, and the fists fly - but The Man with the Iron Fists never takes off.
"The Man With the Iron Fists" is the type of movie that feels like you are always coming in half-way through, even if you watch it from the beginning. As an exercise in genre, this is the highest compliment.
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| Original Score: B-
At 96 minutes it is exactly 93 1/2 minutes too long.
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| Original Score: 1/4
As erratically enjoyable as it is consistently ridiculous, the martial arts pastiche "The Man With the Iron Fists" is the latest evidence that the vogue for neo-exploitation cinema shows no sign of flagging.
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| Original Score: 3/5
As endearing as it is exhausting, The Man With the Iron Fists bears strong resemblance to a hyperactive puppy: sloppy, scatterbrained, manic and migraine-inducing, but possessing an earnest sense of excitement.
It's all sufficiently well done and amusing enough to satisfy the appetites of fans who mainline this sort of thing, but it also sports a concocted, second-hand feel common to this sort of throwback homage ...
Goes a long way in demonstrating that a bad movie with big names is still a bad movie. Just prettier.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
