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Seen on: 10/08/2011

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Ironclad (2011)

Directed by Jonathan English

Action

Most recently watched by sensoria, noahphex, jenerator

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.

Rated R | Length 121 minutes

Actors

Derek Jacobi | Jason Flemyng | Brian Cox | Mackenzie Crook | Jamie Foreman | Charles Dance | Guy Siner | Paul Giamatti | James Purefoy | Vladimir Kulich | Ceri Mears | Kate Mara | Annabelle Apsion | John Pierce Jones | Steffan Rhodri | Aneurin Barnard | Kenneth Collard | Dan Burman | Rhys Parry Jones | David Melville | Daniel O'Meara | Stevie Raine | Simon Nader | Bree Condon | Marcus Hoyland | Jeff Jones | Wyn Bowen Harries | Dewi Williams | John Weldon | Laura Sibbick | Edward Manning | Steve Purbrick | Peter Bartfay | Ian M. Court | David Harkus | Gerald Royston Horler | Rhys Horler | Rhi Louise | Stuart Mager | Christian Morgan | Carlton Venn

Viewing Notes

I categorized Ironclad as an action movie, and it is, but not the sort of action movie most of us are used to.

Set in England during the 1200s, Ironclad is a historical drama with some amazingly gruesome savagery in it. I’ve always been critical of historical movies with ‘clean’ violence in them. In the 12th century, when a knight hacks into an opponent’s shoulder with a fucking broadsword, it’s gut-wrenchingly awful stuff. To Ironclad’s credit, it gets the violence right, no matter how cringe-inducing it is. And it does induce plenty of cringing, to be sure.

The movie is slow at times, putting a strain on our modern attention spans, but I really enjoyed it quite a bit.

It amazes me that Ironclad got little play in theaters (it was never in my area, to be sure) while a pile of dreck like The Eagle was plastered on big screens across the country. Ugh. There is no justice in the world of movie going.

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