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Ironclad: Battle for Blood (2014)
Wish I hadn't wasted my time. Wish it had been better though.
I finished it. Not without fast forwarding through on my sky box on a few parts but I finished it. I never reviewed a film before but this was the straw that broke the camels back - I knew I had to save innocents from this abhorrent time sink.
It was a cold December 27th night that I saw this film coming on to Sky Premier a little later than I wanted to stay up, ergo I slapped it with a record and went peacefully to my bed. Come the afternoon of the following day I got a drink and sat down. I pressed play. Fool on me.
The film follows the typical savage Scots attacking the English lords in their keep. It doesn't particularly elaborate as to why except that the chieftain has suffered the loss of his family at the hands of SOME English. As such, he wants to kill all the English. Sounds legit. So begins an extensive siege that claims all but 4 lives in the end.
The acting wasn't bad. Don't misunderstand my 4/10, the acting wasn't bad at all. Nor was the setting. The fortress castle and the landscape were good and the script wasn't bad either ... at least for the English. Medevil England is a great historical period and worthy of films. This didn't do it justice.
The plot? The plot in itself was direly lacking any real direction outside of several characters developing. It was so similar to every other film of the period, and consisted of a small force assaulting a very small but fortified force; thats fine. Epic battles don't need to have thousands of people. Unfortunately for more than 100 minutes of time you get little reward from this film, seemingly made with the idea of 'lets get some actors from other things like Game of Thrones and have them play in this'. It's a film you look at and think "they must have made this over 2-3 evenings for a quick cash cow" because thats what it is. Unimaginative. Uninspiring. Boring and dull. You don't know if some characters will live and die; frankly you don't care. You know it's like most films like this where 2-5 people survive but you don't care who.
If you want to know if this is worth a watch then it depends how valuable your time is. If the alternative is sitting still staring into space then this film is for you! If you like taking walks or head butting a wall then your time is better spent on those things - they're more fulfilling!