Rotten
Ironclad is as weighed-down as it sounds.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Ironclad
Heavy metal goes medieval.
2011 · 2h 1m · R
Action, Adventure, History, Romance
Directed by
Jonathan English
Overview
In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a 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.
Director and cast
- Jonathan English Director
- James Purefoy as Thomas Marshall
- Kate Mara as Lady Isabel
- Jason Flemyng as Becket
- Paul Giamatti as King John
- Brian Cox as Albany
- Derek Jacobi as Cornhill
- Charles Dance as Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Aneurin Barnard as Guy
- Jamie Foreman as Coteral
- Mackenzie Crook as Marks
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
43%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This English sword-battle drama is a mess. But there's a violent simplicity and a lack of pretentiousness that's refreshing.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
The problem is that the movie is only swords and stage blood. The suits of armor are all empty.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh
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, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rotten
The loud, closely photographed limb-hacking becomes as monotonous as the movie's unrelentingly gray palette.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
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