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Iron Mask unites Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger for a bizarrely misguided adventure that aims for epic fantasy with unintentionally hilarious results. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

To save his homeland from certain doom, a kung fu master must escape from the maniacal James Hook in order to send his daughter a secret talisman that will allow her to control a massive and mythical dragon.

Rating:

PG-13 (Some Suggestive Elements|Sequences of Violence/Action)
Genre:

action, fantasy, adventure
Original Language:

English
Director:

Oleg Stepchenko
Producer:

Sergei Bespalov, Jackie Chan, Yingchun Fang, Gleb Fetisov, Peikang La, Aleksey Petrukhin, Sergey Selyanov
Writer:

Aleksey A. Petrukhin, Oleg Stepchenko
Release Date (Streaming):

Nov 20, 2020
Runtime:

2h 10m
Production Co:

China International Picture, CTB Film Company, Fetisoff Illusion, Gap Financing, Russian Film Group, GFA Entertainment, Sparkle Roll Media, Buffalo 8 Productions, Lime Studios, China Film Group Corporation
Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio:

Flat (1.85:1)

Cast & Crew

Jackie Chan
Master

Arnold Schwarzenegger
James Hook

Jason Flemyng
Jonathan Green

Yao Xingtong
Cheng Lan

Anna Churina
Miss Dudley

Yuri Kolokolnikov
Peter The Great

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Critic Reviews for Iron Mask

All Critics (30) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (24)

I wouldn't say you have to have seen the first instalment to enjoy it: in fact, an unfamiliarity with the general concept of cinema would probably help, if anything.

November 27, 2020 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Robbie Collin
Daily Telegraph (UK)
[A]t least two-thirds of Iron Mask is funny on purpose. The rest, however, is eventually dragged down by compounding inertia.

November 26, 2020 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
AV Club
The Iron Mask will be a curiosity only to those most committed to the mantra of 'so bad, it's good'.

August 10, 2020 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Clarisse Loughrey
Independent (UK)
It's the sort of film that, in fact, makes the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise look like a series of elegant, coherent masterworks.

April 25, 2020 | Full Review…

Deborah Ross
The Spectator
It didn't make a load of sense, despite occasional diverting moments.

April 18, 2020 | Full Review…

Mark Kermode
Kermode & Mayo's Film Review
A film daubed in CGI, with dialogue by Google Translate and a narrative logic so bamboozling it could pass for avant-garde.

April 15, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Danny Leigh
Financial Times
Iron Mask looks like a movie made by people who wanted to waste millions in production money to make a live-action version of a very badly conceived cartoon.

January 17, 2021 | Full Review…

Carla Hay
Culture Mix
As aggressively pointless as this can be and generally is, there's something engaging about its proudly threadbare showmanship.

January 8, 2021 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Tim Brayton
Alternate Ending
One hopes Chan and Schwarzenegger were well-compensated for lending their names to this disaster.

November 22, 2020 | Full Review…

Josh Bell
CBR
A big budget international blockbuster that really throws in the kitchen sink. There are CGI beasts, lavish production values, historical detail even if it is CGI enhanced (what isn't now) and it never slows down, not even for exposition.

November 20, 2020 | Full Review…

Fred Topel
Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Iron Mask doesn't stint on the action front, offers plenty of laughs (intentional and otherwise) and a budget-friendly diversion from our current, sometimes surreal reality.

August 31, 2020 | Full Review…

James Croot
Stuff.co.nz
A hot, lavish, mess but not without its 'so bad it's good' charms.

August 28, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Andrew Gaudion
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