CheerupSilver
Very Cool!!!
Libramedi
Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant
Beystiman
It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
vengeance20
To be honest it was pretty good for a film that wasn't put on the big screen! The gore & the suspense etc all added to the film! But the story line just made no sense at all. About 80% of the film was good the gore the suspense etc was great! But 20% of it just blow it! The sci-fi & the whole story line just come from nowhere was far too much to take in & think about. ***Contains Spoilers***The way I see it, if say that most of the film before the terrible ending were to be about the 4 women waking up, gazed not knowing what had happened because their memories were wiped, then getting tortured by asking them questions they don't know the answer to & showing them horrible images then threatening them to not to look away or else they'll get the eyes cut out & getting tested etc. Etc. Then one of them being left alive & killing the doctors & the masked killer with the cutlass shaped knife & escaping would have been great but when the second commander turned out to be her husband & she signed up to do it etc, etc didn't add up at all!So overall it's good for gore, violence & strong horror. But the ending & story coming out all at once instead of it being mentioned a'little bit every few minutes would have been a bit better! But the whole Sci-Fi theme ruined it totally. Especially when it was LOVE that killed the aliens! I mean it confused me to think it was more a of a romantic ending than a horror like ending!
charliejsch
My girlfriend and I bought two movies, I chose Ironclad and she chose Bane. She's a bit of a horror junkie. We flipped a coin to see which movie we'd watch first, unluckily it was heads, her choice.She fell asleep about half way through, she was the lucky one. I stayed up watching this because if I'm going to spend forty minutes or so watching a horror then I might as well see why the hell there is an alien in it...From the very beginning I saw bad acting and shoddy camera work. Close ups of bad acting and their bad expressions. Grimacing background music which changes constantly, the music or noise does not meld at all. An irritating tick tocking from the clock in the main cell, which I assume is to help break them, but in the end it just annoys the viewer. The dialogue seems broken and awkward. When one of the women was crying constantly I couldn't help but laugh, it was such a poor display of acting and bad camera work. The plot line doesn't even make sense. OK fine, they are trying to transfer emotions from the girls to the aliens. Emotions kill? and I thought emotions are chemicals in the brain, how do you transfer that with an electronic signal? Why was the alien not guarded, and a button to release it right next to it?. The killer is a Ninjabutcher who can climb ceilings and the prisoners never look up, the camera doesn't either. You don't really know how big their cell is, sometimes they are in the shower sometimes they are somewhere else. Why did the girl have these dreams, were they real? why didn't the others wake up? It's just all nonsense.Come on, the Blair Witch Project had less budget and it was great. You don't need a big budget to create suspense. This movie should be viewed by students on what not to do when making a film. I had to see Ironclad straight away to see real actors and transfer the emotion of disgust to contentment via transmission device - DVD before implosion occurred.
mandalamama
Four women wake up in a room without their memories, and their only clue to their identities are names written on their wrist-bands. Cue very creepy, gory and (the director hopes) terrifying goings-on. Of course here's a twist at the end.***here be the spoiler!***The problem with the entire movie is: the twist is revealed in the first minutes of the film. There was only one woman, in the opening credits, to sit down in the chair calmly and receive the injection. That gave it away entirely, and the "explanation" at the end is so little-explored within the film, they just don't matter.
in1984
It didn't turn out quite as good as either of them, though still interesting paranoid sci-fi.It does in fact amount to a combination of Killing Room and District 9, as odd as that may sound. More of an interesting concept than anything else because the acting and direction fail to keep it moving.The one story-line problem is that the weapon against aliens they're developing has no realistic way to be applied on a large scale and would likely fail without the ability to isolate individual aliens, which given the description of events and aliens does not seem plausible. Fortunately, it doesn't ruin the film.
