Ironclad: Battle for Blood 2014

Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter: Essentially 108 minutes of woad-daubed Scots and begrimed English settlers slogging it out over a castle on the Scottish border in 1221. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: The title's promise of violence is dutifully met in gory, sonically squishy close-quarter melees shot in Confuse-o-vision, as if the camera had been strapped to a whirring blender before the footage was edited with the puree button. Read more

Michael Nordine, L.A. Weekly: Battle for Blood is ultimately too accurate a subtitle; this film is a bloodbath, and not an edifying one in the slightest. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Much sound and fury ensues, but without a compelling story behind it, it signifies very little. Read more