Iron Mask
critic Reviews
, 22% Rotten Tomatometer Score- Iron Mask unites Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger for a bizarrely misguided adventure that aims for epic fantasy with unintentionally hilarious results.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRobbie CollinDaily Telegraph (UK)
I wouldn't say you have to have seen the first instalment to enjoy it: in fact, an unfamiliarity with the general concept of cinema would probably help, if anything.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreIgnatiy VishnevetskyAV Club
[A]t least two-thirds of Iron Mask is funny on purpose. The rest, however, is eventually dragged down by compounding inertia.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreClarisse LoughreyIndependent (UK)
The Iron Mask will be a curiosity only to those most committed to the mantra of 'so bad, it's good'.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreDeborah RossThe Spectator
It's the sort of film that, in fact, makes the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise look like a series of elegant, coherent masterworks.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreMark KermodeKermode & Mayo's Film Review
It didn't make a load of sense, despite occasional diverting moments.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreDanny LeighFinancial Times
A film daubed in CGI, with dialogue by Google Translate and a narrative logic so bamboozling it could pass for avant-garde.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAnne BrodieWhat She Said
The opening chapters are pretty funny, with these masters of action battling it out in the Tower and dropping bon mots. But TBH I'm lost for the late chapters.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreLiam LaceyOriginal Cin
This swollen, flowery 18th-century fantasy mishmash, though starry, might appeal to the thoroughly blunted. All others should take a pass.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreCarla HayCulture Mix
Iron Mask looks like a movie made by people who wanted to waste millions in production money to make a live-action version of a very badly conceived cartoon.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreTim BraytonAlternate Ending
As aggressively pointless as this can be and generally is, there's something engaging about its proudly threadbare showmanship.
Read full article