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Ironclad serves up plenty of crunchy gore to sate action aficionados, but the sketchy story clunks like a suit of ill-fitting armor.
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Terrific action spectacle and a great tattered and beaten performance from Paul Giamatti, but the film is largely lifeless and dull. January 29, 2012 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
Terrific action spectacle and a great tattered and beaten performance from Paul Giamatti, but the film is largely lifeless and dull.
R.L. Shaffer
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 22, 2011 | Rating: 5.2/10 | Full Review…
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.
Sean Gandert
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 18, 2011 | Full Review…
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?
Jason Best
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 14, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
Mayer Nissim
Good gravy, if you're looking for satisfyingly bloody swordplay, look no further. July 11, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Good gravy, if you're looking for satisfyingly bloody swordplay, look no further.
Rob Thomas
Ironclad is as weighed-down as it sounds. July 8, 2011 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
Ironclad is as weighed-down as it sounds.
Tom Long
Like Takashii Miike's 13 Assassins, Ironclad takes a familiar genre-the historical action picture-and colors it blood-red. July 8, 2011 | Full Review…
Like Takashii Miike's 13 Assassins, Ironclad takes a familiar genre-the historical action picture-and colors it blood-red.
Maitland McDonagh
The problem is that the movie is only swords and stage blood. The suits of armor are all empty. July 8, 2011 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The problem is that the movie is only swords and stage blood. The suits of armor are all empty.
Stephen Whitty
Casting is almost uniformly first rate with Cox, Purefoy and the always brilliant Giamatti providing noteworthy standouts. July 8, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/5
Casting is almost uniformly first rate with Cox, Purefoy and the always brilliant Giamatti providing noteworthy standouts.
Wade Major
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 8, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
As a critic who complains about painless and brainless action movies, I hoist a glass of mead to the men and maidens of "Ironclad."
Joe Williams
The loud, closely photographed limb-hacking becomes as monotonous as the movie's unrelentingly gray palette. July 8, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
The loud, closely photographed limb-hacking becomes as monotonous as the movie's unrelentingly gray palette.
Robert Abele
A gore-filled guilty pleasure... July 8, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
A gore-filled guilty pleasure...
Lou Lumenick
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