Finn Jones – Danny Rand/Iron Fist
I lost count
over how many times Danny Rand meditates in this movie. In the kung fu genre it
illustrates control of oneself and considering his powers he’s also charging
his chi. Problem is he seems to have meditated himself out of a personality.
I am blaming
this first on the script which was slow or never highlighted an emerging
danger. The first two episodes didn’t present the urgency, a threat that needs
a superhero, which may have contributed me to not believe in the acting.
I did not buy
the excitement he had first time back at his father’s company. Danny didn’t
even look at all teary eyed having seen his home for the first time. You would
think he should have acted more insulted having been committed to a mental
institution. Sure there was an emotional response from Danny but he always
seems to have meditated himself back to his “center”.
If Danny can find his center then so can I, which doesn't bode well for a story. Shouldn't I be kept interested and be on the edge of my seat?
Iron Fist is a
prolonged version of the first Iron Man movie because in spite of mysterious
organizations, travel half the world away, the story ends up merely with the
change in control of the company. Since Danny Rand is the big CEO he’s being
set up as the funding arm of the Defenders once that comes out, again much like
Tony Stark only without the personality and inventions.
It was only in the later episodes after some expository dialogue did
it get presented that these warriors (Danny had a tail) from K’un-Lun have
their feelings bottled up. There are layers that need uncovering.
This was highlighted when Colleen was in danger as if to say she is that special girl that would take Danny out of his center. Problem is I never felt the internal storm in how Finn Jones acted – script, acting prowess or lack thereof, chemistry, or over meditation; you tell me.
This was highlighted when Colleen was in danger as if to say she is that special girl that would take Danny out of his center. Problem is I never felt the internal storm in how Finn Jones acted – script, acting prowess or lack thereof, chemistry, or over meditation; you tell me.
With her helmet
as an X-wing pilot and now absent a beautiful younger Sand Snake of a sister in
Game of Thrones, Jessica Henwick is really blooming. Perhaps she is just too
beautiful. She looks more debutante than
a warrior much less a sensei. Her
students don’t look much younger than her.
On the bright side Colleen Wing has the best fight scenes, even better than Iron Fist.
On the bright side Colleen Wing has the best fight scenes, even better than Iron Fist.
She’s looks
perfect as lady CEO. Supposedly she’s
the softer side of the brother and sister tandem running Rand Corporation but
she doesn’t give off that softer vibe. She is the first the let Danny back into
their lives and the corporation.
If I recall
correctly I believed they hung out in one episode which was immediately after
Danny was brought back in the company and then that was it. Instead of two
childhood friends meeting again the scene felt more like a job interview
because Joy was all business thereafter.
The lack of scenes establishing closeness made the heartbreak in Joy's character arc hard to buy.
I looked it up
as far as finding out if brother and sister did exist in the comics. They do.
But as to their worth in the story it feels like it could have done by
just one. Ward and Joy Meachum are well portrayed and they actually have better
chemistry than Danny and Colleen.
I liked David
when he was still Faramir in Lord of the Rings but maybe it’s because it was
the first time I saw him. Since then I can’t forget him narrating Leonidas’
last stand.
Harold Meachum has
never had a saving grace in all of 13 episodes even with some scenes wherein he
seems to be missing his daughter. He is
painful to watch especially in scenes with Danny. Whenever there scene comes up I feel like
shouting: ‘How the hell can anyone believe Harold?!?’
Now that I think of it how can Harold be a father figure if he and Wendell Rand are alive at the same time? Some warrior this Iron Fist is who can’t read people so obvious.
Now that I think of it how can Harold be a father figure if he and Wendell Rand are alive at the same time? Some warrior this Iron Fist is who can’t read people so obvious.
The Defenders
are being set up with a team medic it seems.
Claire has appeared in all of the Netflix series and always at the same capacity. Claire even has more appearances than Jeri Hoggart. For me the insistence of continually pushing Claire in every Netflix Marvel series is forcing it, if the aim is just to remind us that all these characters will one day unite in one team-up series.
What’s Claire going to do, give a lecture on the wrongness of taking a life again? Hoggart would have been a much better fit assuming continuity and the Sokovia Accords.
Claire has appeared in all of the Netflix series and always at the same capacity. Claire even has more appearances than Jeri Hoggart. For me the insistence of continually pushing Claire in every Netflix Marvel series is forcing it, if the aim is just to remind us that all these characters will one day unite in one team-up series.
What’s Claire going to do, give a lecture on the wrongness of taking a life again? Hoggart would have been a much better fit assuming continuity and the Sokovia Accords.
I don’t know
what the Hand wants as much as I don’t know what Danny wants though the name Iron Fist is repeated too many times and that he is a sworn enemy of the Hand.
As a plot twist
this group pretended to be divided I’m not sure. So who are in the Hand? What
are their goals in New York? Is it to create an army of sleepers penetrating
all aspects of society? Is it drugs? As far
as the drug business is concerned it appeared only on episode 5; the sleepers –
if that’s what they are – around episode 10. I think the existence of the Hand
was mentioned only by episode 3.
The burying of a
drug business with the infrastructure of Rand Corporation was settled only with
Danny resting full control of the business by the last episode. Yes it took
Danny that long to zero in on Harold.
The question of
the sleepers was never truly explored much less settled. There’s just this so called
breakaway faction of the Hand who are training teens and people in the early
20s. This faction then acted the same as the more traditionally known Hand.
All the while
the Hand, this big shadow organization stretching back through centuries, plays
the part of the one holding the strings but Danny ends up in a death duel only
with Harold. And then K’un-Lun appeared in the very last minute of the series
suggesting failure on Danny’s part.
What does Danny
want? What does the Hand want? I watched this series feeling I was just going through the motions.
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