
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 cast... (Full plot summary below)
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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 rebels' momentous struggle for justice and freedom.
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| Detroit NewsTom LongIronclad is as weighed-down as it sounds. |
| IFC.comMatt SingerWhen they named 'em the Dark Ages, brother, they weren't kidding. |
| Boxoffice MagazineWade MajorCasting is almost uniformly first rate with Cox, Purefoy and the always brilliant Giamatti providing noteworthy standouts. |
| Real.comLisa Giles-KeddieCaptures the contemporary imagination: freedom for every man ... we empathise with its characters' determination to defend this ideal ... we easily commit to the grounds for the barbarity. |
| News of the WorldRobbie CollinTHERE comes a time in every great movie-watching experience where a special little moment in the film makes you smile with purest joy. For me, in Ironclad, it was the bit where a guy tears another guy's arm off then beats him to death with it. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasGood gravy, if you're looking for satisfyingly bloody swordplay, look no further. |
| Daily Mirror (UK)David EdwardsHe sure isn't the obvious choice to play King John, but US-born Sideways star Paul Giamatti pulls it off in this bleak and bloody drama examining the terrible vengeance he visited on his enemies post-Magna Carta. |
| eFilmCritic.comErik ChildressA certain bloody matinee charm to it, if your idea of charm is brutally graphic combat scenes and well-known faces hamming it up in the downtime between. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAs a critic who complains about painless and brainless action movies, I hoist a glass of mead to the men and maidens of Ironclad. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfIt's overlong, but Ironclad provides a righteous jolt, working as a gritty work of period recreation and as a sword-swinging marathon of squirting blood and flying severed limbs. |