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The Man With the Iron Fists Reviews
In any case, Crowe's a hoot, RZA's instrumentals mostly deliver (save the occasional and baffling metal guitar), and I left the theater not lamenting that this movie exists. Good hustle, everybody.
| May 23, 2018
All that matters here are cockamamie anachronistic music cues, low-rent filmmaking and one spectacularly hammy turn from Russell Crowe.
Full Review | May 3, 2015
The Man with the Iron Fists is an off-balanced and bloated martial arts film that barely gets by on its gorgeous set design.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 17, 2013
When you team with Eli Roth, who has the writing talent of a sociopathic thirteen year old boy on Ritalin, what can you possibly expect but swill?
| Jan 11, 2013
A scrappily authentic and entertainingly bloody tribute to old-school chopsocky films and taken purely on those terms, there's not a lot to complain about.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2012
The movie is undeniably colorful and action-packed, and gorier than a slaughterhouse floor. But something's missing.
| Original Score: C | Dec 17, 2012
The violence is extreme and preposterous, the fights ingeniously choreographed, the producer Tarantino (his actual credit is "presents").
| Dec 9, 2012
The fists, feet and digital blood go flying in this enjoyable, frenetic, largely forgettable chop-socky extravaganza about, well, about a man with iron fists who gets into lots of fights.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2012
One is occasionally infuriated by the archness of the exercise. But there is a charming innocence to Fists' faith in the values of 1970s cross-cultural exploitation.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2012
A vacuous but fun exercise in chop-sock style over substance.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2012
Given the talent on board, this registers as a disappointment, but even with the clunky dialogue and subpar fight scenes, it's watchable fun.
Full Review | Dec 7, 2012
Predictably, this kind of gleeful fanboy excess yields diminishing returns. RZA hasn't much sense of storytelling rhythm, and lacks Tarantino's gift for turning adolescent obsessions into something uniquely personal.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2012
It's so over the top that I just thought it was a hoot.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2012
Thank goodness for Russell Crowe who gives a sardonic, who-gives-a-damn performance as one of the good guys.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2012
The Man with the Iron Fists is as limp as last week's wet noodles.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 7, 2012
Rapper-turned-actor-turned-filmmaker RZA is clearly influenced by cohorts Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth as he indulges in this crazed pastiche of 1970s kung fu action romps.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 7, 2012
Self-defeatingly "Tarantino-esque".
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2012
A one-note pastiche featuring impressive wire-fu, bloody mayhem and CGI mutilation.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 7, 2012
The Man With The Iron Fists definitely isn't the most polished first effort. But if you approach it as a sloppy, OTT martial arts outing, you'll find the fun.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2012
As long as you accept some magnificently bad dialogue, this is silly, fun and ludicrous beyond belief.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2012