']]}Watch in HD Ironclad (2011)
- MOVIE page: Ironclad (2011)
- Rate: 6.1/10 total 22,612 votes
- Genre: Action | Adventure
- Runtime: 121 min
- Filming Location: Dragon International Studios, Wales, UK
- Budget: $25,000,000 (estimated)
- Director: Jonathan English
- Stars: James Purefoy, Brian Cox, Paul Giamatti | See full cast and crew
- Original Music By: Lorne Balfe
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
- Plot Keyword: King | Castle | Fight | Knight | 13th Century
- (in alphabetical order)
- Jonathan English story & screenplay
- Erick Kastel co-screenplay
- Stephen McDool first screenplay
Goofs: Continuity: A large stone is catapulted through the stain glass cathedral window. All later scenes show the window fully intact.
Plot: In 13th-century England, a small group of Knights Templar fight to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John. Full summary » | »
Story: 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. Written byAnonymous
Produced By:
- Glenn Kendrick Ackermann known as executive producer
- Christian Arnold-Beutel known as executive producer
- Evan Astrowsky known as executive producer
- Graham Begg known as executive producer
- Rick Benattar known as producer
- Adam Betteridge known as executive producer
- Brian Brightly known as associate producer
- Alastair Burlingham known as executive producer
- Jamie Carmichael known as executive producer
- Andrew J. Curtis known as producer
- Jonathan English known as producer
- John Evangelides known as executive producer
- Uwe Feuersenger known as executive producer
- Mark Foligno known as executive producer
- James Gibb known as executive producer
- Linda James known as executive producer
- Al Munteanu known as co-executive producer
- Robyn Owen known as associate producer
- Steve Robbins known as executive producer
- David Rogers known as executive producer
- Marcus Schöfer known as executive producer
- Tilo Seiffert known as executive producer
- Deepak Sikka known as executive producer
- Andrew Warren known as line producer
- James Purefoy known as Thomas Marshal
- Brian Cox known as Baron William d'Aubigny
- Kate Mara known as Lady Isabel
- Derek Jacobi known as Baron Reginald de Cornhill
- Paul Giamatti known as King John
- Charles Dance known as Archbishop Langton
- Jason Flemyng known as Gil Becket
- Jamie Foreman known as Jedediah Coteral
- Mackenzie Crook known as Daniel Marks
- Rhys Parry Jones known as Joseph Wulfstan
- Aneurin Barnard known as Guy the Squire
- Vladimir Kulich known as Captain Tiberius
- David Melville known as Baron Darnay
- Annabelle Apsion known as Maddy
- Steffan Rhodri known as Cooper
- Daniel O'Meara known as Phipps
- Bree Condon known as Agnes
- Guy Siner known as Oaks
- Marcus Hoyland known as Abbott Marcus
- John Pierce Jones known as Cook
- Jeff Jones known as Head Clerk
- Ceri Mears known as Blacksmith
- Kenneth Collard known as Sapper Captain
- Wyn Bowen Harries known as Baron
- Dewi Williams known as Baron
- John Weldon known as Castle Darney Sentry
- Laura Sibbick known as Castle Servant Girl
- Edward Manning known as Mercenary
- Simon Nader known as Hungarian Mercenaries (voice)
- Steve Purbrick known as Tavern Landlord
- Peter Bartfay known as Hungarian Mercenaries (voice) (uncredited)
- Dan Burman known as Mercenary Scout (uncredited)
- Ian M. Court known as Priest (uncredited)
- David Harkus known as Young Soldier (uncredited)
- Gerald Royston Horler known as Hungarian Warrior (uncredited)
- Rhys Horler known as Hungarian Warrior (uncredited)
- Rhi Louise known as Topless Wench (uncredited)
- Stuart Mager known as Garrison Guard (uncredited)
- Christian Morgan known as Wounded Guard (uncredited)
- Stevie Raine known as Mercenary Fight Performer (uncredited)
- Carlton Venn known as King's Aid 2 (uncredited)
Production Companies:
- Mythic International Entertainment (production)
- ContentFilm International (in association with)
- Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds 4 GmbH & Co. KG (I) (as VIP Medienfonds 4) (presents)
- VIP 4 Medienfonds (as VIP Medienfonds 4) (presents)
- Premiere Picture (in association with)
- Rising Star (in association with)
- Silver Reel (in association with)
- Silver Reel (in association with)
- Wales Creative IP Fund (as The Wales Creative IP Fund) (in association with)
- Molinare Investment (as Molinare) (in association with)
- Perpetual Media Capital (in association with)
MPAA: Rated R for strong graphic brutal battle sequences, and brief nudity
Ironclad (2011) Review by Ced Yuen from United Kingdom
There are plenty of lower-budget independent films that have gone on tobe more critically acclaimed and more financially profitable thanbig-budget Hollywood pictures. What is rare, however, is an indie filmthat masquerades as one of these pictures. A self-labelled "all-star indie action blockbuster" and "inspired by history",'Ironclad' issuch a film, trying to redefine the boundaries of British cinema.
Whether by intention or by coincidence, 'Ironclad' picks up a few yearsafter the end of Ridley Scott's 'Robin Hood'. It is England, 1215. KingJohn (Paul Giamatti) has been forced to sign the Magna Carta, whichlimits his power and ensures the freedom of men.
With the help of a Danish army, the King rampages across the country toregain absolute power. Baron Albany (Brian Cox) and a band of rebelstake Rochester Castle in an attempt to stop the tyrant king. A siegetakes place, and the rebels must hold the castle until reinforcementsarrive.
The film certainly ticks many of the boxes of an action blockbuster.There's a clear "big bad guy vs. underdog good guy" vibe, plenty ofaction, and some veterans among the B-list cast. The $25 millionbudget, although pocket change in Hollywood, shows how badly this indiefilm wants to be big. A big film, however, is not necessarily a goodfilm.
'Ironclad' is at its strongest when it comes to the physical side ofthings. It does not shy away from gory violence. Heads, hands andfeet go flying, blood splatters all over the the camera's lens, andthere's a particularly nasty bit involving a man and a catapult. Theweapons feel like instruments of destruction rather than Medieval-chicaccessories, and often succeed in making viewers wince.
The fight choreography is particularly impressive - characters looklike soldiers trying to tear each others' hearts out, as opposed toactors trying to high-five each other's swords. The action sacrificesstyle and appearance for physicality and brutality, which results in arefreshing level of authenticity.
The 13th century England recreated looks good enough to fool anyone buta history buff. Giamatti and Cox play their roles with conviction andsucceed in getting the story moving. Giamatti is particularlywatchable, playing King John as an unhinged sadist.
The narrative is where 'Ironclad' falters. Fully aware that the film isessentially about a group of soldiers in a building, the writers havetried to spice things up. One of the rebels (James Purefoy) happens tobe a Templar Knight. He regrets killing people for God, so he goes on adiet of silence and chastity, the latter of which is tested (of course)by the lady of the castle (Kate Mara). These are ill-advised attemptsat emotional content and only serve to distract from what should havebeen a simpler, more polished affair.
Regrettably, the filmmakers decided to emulate that mostrepulsive staple of modern action blockbusters - the shaky-cam.Specifically namechecking 'Transformers 2' and the 'Bourne' sequels asinfluences (not a good sign), they decided to shake the picture tocreate "a very real sense of action".
What is achieved instead is a very real sense of frustration every timethe action is made unnecessarily incoherent. Once again, the "MichaelBay Effect" has ruined a film that would have otherwise lookedexcellent, and wasted the work of an obviously talented actionchoreographer.
Despite its flaws, fans of mud'n'blood, hack'n'slash mini-epics willfind plenty to like in 'Ironclad'. It is comparable to 'Robin Hood'despite costing $130 million less to make. Director Jonathan Englishwanted to create an action blockbuster. In terms of scale and ambition,he has succeeded. But blockbusters aren't perfect, and neither is this.
Ironclad (2011) Review by macca197338 from United Kingdom
Firstly I am quite realistic about my expectations when a historicalmovie is made. Real history does not generally run smoothly nor is itengaging enough to fit conveniently into a 2 hour movie, so I refuse tonick-pick a screen writer for adding a little poetic license into ascript or for the costume designer who doesn't have the time orresources to get the actors "just right".
With this in mind, I found the story enjoyable and it ran more or lesshistorically and at a good pace, I was certainly never given enoughpause to consider boredom. The fight scenes were very good and I agreewith other criticisms on the reviews about the shaking camera making itextremely hard to concentrate on what was happening.
There was plenty of blood, limbs and sliced heads to appeal to the gorefest/action fans but it seemed to accurately reflect the face ofmedieval warfare with its close and gruesome nature.
The cast were a list of well known and respected actors, all of whomput in a good display with what they were given with Paul Giamatti'srant about the divinity of Kings being especially engaging.
Overall its not a classic nor will it win awards, but for a couple ofhours action based escapism it is certainly worth the effort ofwatching and is far superior to a number of bigger budget Hollywoodcontemporaries.
Ironclad (2011) Review by syntinen from United Kingdom
If you've always wanted to see what if would look like if someonehacked off another guy's arm and bashed him over the head with thesoggy end (yes, really), Ironclad is probably the film you've beenwaiting for all your life.
Otherwise, it is a waddling armour-plated turkey; after its verylimited release it's likely to go straight to DVD for the benefit ofadolescents who enjoy graphic violence for its own sake.
Jonathan English, the writer and director, read the interpretive panelsat Rochester Castle and said "Wow! The bloodiest siege in Englishhistory! Hands and feet lopped off! Pigs slaughtered! We can make aReally Gritty and Realistic Movie out of this! Show what medievalviolence was Really Like!"
Except of course they didn't, and perhaps couldn't; because the thingabout sieges is that they consist of hundreds of people occasionallyfighting each other, parleying or lobbing rocks and boiling oil at eachother, but mostly just sitting about starving for a Very Long Time. Tomake a gripping film about that would take a truly gifted and originalstoryteller, which these guys are not. So they started putting in stuffto spice it up, and be damned not only to history but common sense too.
- It's established at the outset that the rebels . So you'd thinkthey'd send all their forces there, yes? Er, no. One baron collectstogether four oddball Old Comrades, his naive young squire, and aTemplar Knight with a 5 ½-foot two-hand sword (yes, just likeBraveheart, never mind that those won't exist for 100 years at least)who has lost his faith on Crusade; and the seven of them ride off tohold Rochester against John's army.
- When they get there, they find that the elderly castellan, in spiteof there being a civil war on, has only got six soldiers to man it (anda hot young wife, naturally).
- And (because "Flemish mercenaries" and "John's French vassals"doesn't sound evil enough) John's army consists of pagan Danes (nevermind that in 1215 Denmark had been Christian for centuries) who preparethemselves for battle by painting themselves blue (yes, just likeBraveheart again; never mind that Danes never did that).
- Historically, John ordered forty pigs slaughtered and their fatrendered down to create a blaze in the undermine that collapsed one ofthe towers of the castle. But that would have been too dull, so thepigs are driven straight into the mine and burned alive. Never mindthat that wouldn't work – it's badass, right?
The characters are so badly written that even good actors can only walkthrough their parts. The Magnificent Seven don't have personalities,just attributes: the Angry Sexy One, the Foul-Mouthed Brawler, theUnimpressive One with the Special Skill, the one who had retired tofarm and look after his kids but comes back for One Last Mission… Andall the stuff they are given to do is drawn from such hoary clichés as:- Both the director and James Purefoy (who plays the Templar) haveexplicitly called this a "medieval Magnificent Seven"; either notrealising or not caring that in MS and SS there's a good reason whythere are only seven assorted misfits holding off the powers ofbadness, but none whatever in Ironclad. It would pass in asword-&-sorcery or wuxia flick, but not in what's supposed to behistorical one.
- Hero goes over the wall without a word to anyone, everyone thinkshe's deserting but no, he has gone to steal supplies from the enemy?Tick.
- Two of the Old Comrades meet, one promptly thumps the other, we'resupposed to brace ourselves for a big brawl but no, they laugh andembrace each other? Tick.
- The idealistic young lad is told "kill the women if the baddies getin" but can't bring himself to do it? Tick.
Yawn, yawn, yawn. You don't give a stuff about any of the characters,mainly because you don't for a moment believe in them. It's purecartoon: but because the makers thought they were making a "gritty""realistic" film, it's a dull sludge-coloured cartoon - the colour isso washed out it looks like a badly-degraded old print in need ofrestoration.
In addition to all this there are random packets of stupid:
- John has a scenery-chewing rant about the Divine Right of Kings inwhich he claims that his ancestors have ruled England for 'thousands ofyears'. Shome mishtake there, shurely?
- As soon as the siege starts, the lovely chatelaine puts on a verylow-cut metal-studded leather corset, with bare arms, and spends theentire siege dressed like that. I think it was supposed to be armour,but it just looks like fetish wear. (All the costuming is pretty iffy,because the desire to make things look realistically squalid andmedieval has clashed with the desire to scatter them with cool-lookingbits of metalwork and stuff.)
The fictional characters' names are so inappropriate and un-medievalit's as though the production team picked them by opening the telephonedirectory at random, or raised money to make the film by auctioning offthe right to name a character after your uncle: e.g. Marks, Phipps,Jedediah. And the blue-painted pagan Danish chief is called – wait forit – Tiberius. Why?
If English & Co had admitted to themselves that they weren't making ahistorical film but a hack 'n bash cartoon, they could have thrown in afew Orcs, a Chinese swordfight heroine or a Tim the Enchanter, and sentit up rotten. Then this film could have been tacky late-night fun. Asit is – meh.
Related Search :
Ironclad - Rotten Tomatoes - Movies Movie Trailers Reviews ... Ironclad (2011) tomatometer. All Critics; Top Critics; 43. Average Rating: 5.2/10 Reviews Counted: 56 Fresh: 24 Rotten: 32 No consensus yet. 25. Average Rating: 4.8/10 Ironclad (2011) - IMDb 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 ... Ironclad (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ironclad is a 2011 adventure film directed by Jonathan English. ... Ironclad was the largest independent production that has been filmed in Wales, ... Ironclad Film Facebook DIFF 2011: IRONCLAD Review. Written and directed by Jonathan English, IRONCLAD stars Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Brian Cox, and James Purefoy. 1 13 Like Comment ... Ironclad (2011) - MovieWeb.com - Movie Trailers, New Movies, Movie ... Ironclad (2011) starring Kate Mara, Jason Flemyng, Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy, Brian Cox, Charles Dance, Derek Jacobi, Mackenzie Crook, Vladimir Kulich, Jamie Foreman. Ironclad Trailer 2011 - YouTube Ironclad - for more info visit http://www.movie-pedia.com Release date: 2010-03-04 (UK) Director: Jonathan English Lead actor(s): Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti ... Ironclad (2011) - Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics ... A Medieval Magnificent Seven, Ironclad is a violent action thriller that tells the true story of a motley crew of tough, battle hardened warriors, who withstood ... Ironclad (2011) In 13th-century England, a small group of Knights Templar fight to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John.
Post a Comment