Iron Fist Honest Trailer Highlights How Weak The Netflix Show Was

The latest episode of Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers set its sights on Iron Fist and highlights the weaknesses of the Netflix series. Developed by Scott Buck, the Marvel Cinematic Universe series introduced Danny Rand, a martial arts expert and billionaire orphan who returns to New York City after being presumed dead in a plane accident with his parents 15 years prior. Rand reveals he was trained by the Buddhist monks of the mystical city of K’un-L’Un and imbued with the ability of the Iron Fist to protect the world against the evil organization of The Hand.

The series starred Finn Jones as the titular hero alongside Jessica Henwick as Colleen Wing, Simone Missick as Misty Knight, Tom Pelphrey, Jessica Stroup, Sacha Dhawan, Ramón Rodríguez, Rosario Dawson and David Wenham. First premiering on Netflix in early 2017, Iron Fist would receive largely negative reviews from critics and a mixed reception from audiences, though saw strong enough viewership to receive a season 2 order, which saw better reviews but still a mixed reception overall. It would ultimately be canceled after just two seasons in late 2018 alongside fellow Netflix MCU series Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and The Punisher as Marvel Television would be folded into the larger Marvel Studios and the deals with Netflix for each character coming to a close.

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Ahead of the release of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the folks at Screen Junkies have set their sights on fellow MCU martial arts project Iron Fist for the latest episode of their Honest Trailers series. The video highlights all of the flaws of the series, from its shameless borrowing from other comic book shows and movies, its poor acting, direction and . Check out the hilarious video below:

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Throughout its brief run on Netflix, Iron Fist quickly became the most embarrassing of the streaming platform’s Marvel projects, as well as any of the projects released thus far tied to the MCU, only to be surpassed by Inhumans. Season 1 was panned heavily for its blatant ripping of the format of The CW’s Arrow, itself criticized early on for its reinvention of the character as a Bruce Wayne knock-off, and the video does a hilarious job of highlighting these issues along with the multitudes of others seen in the series. One of the most egregious was certainly the action in the series, an element that should be executed properly in any MCU property to make it watchable, let alone one packed full of characters who are supposed to be martial arts experts, but instead finds every punch, kick, sword slash and so on delivered in a slow and unconvincing manner as though they were training as they filmed.

The biggest highlight of the Iron Fist Honest Trailer that many fans are still crying fowl over is the possibility that Henwick’s Colleen Wing, the best part of the series and one of the more iconic supporting characters in the comics, may never come back to the MCU fold. The original Netflix-Marvel deal has opened up the latter’s ability to use the characters from the various series however they wish and rumors are still spreading that Daredevil‘s Charlie Cox is returning for Spider-Man: No Way Home. However, the poor critical reception to both seasons of Iron Fist and Henwick’s increasingly busy schedule seems to be creating plenty of hurdles for whether she’ll return if the opportunity presented itself.

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