Empire Magazine
It could have been a tantalising coming-together of two icons of action cinema. Instead, The Iron Mask feels oddly anemic.
Full review
The Iron Mask
Crazy actioner pairing Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It holds a 19% Rotten Tomatoes score (at the time of writing), with The Financial Times saying it features "a narrative logic so bamboozling it could pass for avant-garde."
The Russian Czar commissions Jonathan Green (Jason Flemyng), an English traveller, to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire. Green sets off his long journey, which eventually leads him to China. On his way, he makes discoveries, meets mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even Lun Van, the King of Dragons, himself.
2019Rating: M121 minsRussia, China, USA
Action
The Iron Mask / Reviews
The Guardian
We are stuck with endless, weightless green-screen shenanigans involving a dragon whose eyelashes are used to create tea (I think that's right) and a cast of thousands who drift across various CGI landscapes.
Full review
The Times
This is not a film that features actual acting. It's not even one that features much actual talking.
Full review
Financial Times
A film daubed in CGI, with dialogue by Google Translate and a narrative logic so bamboozling it could pass for avant-garde.
Full review
IGN
The Iron Mask is a mess of cultural ideas that not even Jackie Chan or Arnold Schwarzenegger can make work.
Full review
Independent
The Iron Mask will be a curiosity only to those most committed to the mantra of 'so bad, it's good'.
Full review
Share