Hang on for the ride of your life as Walt Disney Pictures presents the action-packed adventure that delivers thrilling heroics and rugged scenery! Based on an incredible true-life story, a brave young man is thrust into adulthood as he and his courageous team of sled dogs embark on a grueling and treacherous cross-country marathon. Together they race through the frozen wilderness, carrying hopes of capturing the $10,000 grand prize that will save his family from financial ruin. With dogged determination and sheer iron will, they face impossible odds and hardships along the dangerous trail to his dreams. IRON WILL is high adventure that will thrill and uplift everyone!A complete lack of imagination is what qualifies this as a B movie. Thankfully, this snowy adventure about a boy and his dogs is charming enough to entice the kiddies. Charismatic MacKenzie Astin plays a teenager trying to save the family farm by entering a 522-mile sled-dog marathon. Except for Astin, the lusciously scenic background has more depth than most of the characters. This is so predictable you could take a nap and miss nothing except a few rousing scenes in the 1917 Winnipeg-to-St.-Paul sled race. Although this is visually more appealing than most family fare, one wishes more attention had been paid to the script. –Rochelle O’Gorman
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April 18, 2008
#1
Okay this movie is so fake and Disney-like it has nothing like dog racing and the crazy swedish dude was fake and this movie sucked okay. I lives in the tundras of the wintery lands an I wasted my cold bitter time in the movie theater.
April 18, 2008
#2
Based on true story, It’s about an international dog sled race around the turn of the century. It’s set in either Alaska or Canada or both. If you like adventures in nature and or survival stories you might like this one. It’s about determination, stamina, will and endurance too.
April 18, 2008
#3
I think people may be mixing this up with White Fang- I did! This movie was just idiotic. I gave it 2 stars because Spacey made it (barely) watchable. But without Spacey, it’s nothing.
April 18, 2008
#4
Iron will is about a boy who fights for his fathers dreams and his.He becomes more urgent to win the race his father was to join, while racing to the finish line.and never giving up on the goal he and his family set for him.
April 18, 2008
#5
As one reviewer noted, this film is like the classic Disney adventure films of old. I was born in 1952, so I went to many of them as a kid. The acting isn’t bad overall, and the adventure and scenery and photography are great.
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I missed some of the begining, but from where I came in, I could tell that the story was predictable, and the ending, where he wins by a mere few inches and only a second or so, because the crowd takes up whistling his tune, which gets him and his dogs moving again, was … too much to take, I think. Maybe okay for kids, but too melodramatic for adults.
Yet … it’s nice that movies like this are still being made, and it’s nice that when the bad guy gets attacked by dogs, instead of being killed, the hero shoots his gun to scare off the dogs and save the evil Swede.
Plus, the hero holds off shooting his (thought-to-be-mortally-) wounded dog, Gus … and ends up taking him to the finish — or, rather, Gus takes him to the finish.
Sadly, or maybe understandably, Kevin Spacey didn’t seem particularly believable or enthusiastic in his part.
But, despite the negative things that can be said about this film, it is, I think, a good family and children’s film, with a minimum of violence, though enough to engender excitement and add realism. It teaches good values and lessons, and even though the characters are pretty formulaic and predictable such that you know pretty much where this picture is going to go and how it’s going to end up, it’s an enjoyable and pretty film — and you can really feel the snow and cold!
If I had young children, I’d definitely buy it for my DVD collection.