Iron Fist - Season 1 (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Creators: Scott Buck, M. Raven Metzner
	Actors: Finn Jones (Game of Thrones TV-series), Jessica Henwick, Jessica Stroup, Rosario Dawson (Deathproof), David Wenham (The Two Towers)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: September 2017, VOD, 30" TV screen
Synopsis: Danny Rand (Jones), heir to a multi-billion dollar company, was thought dead for 15 years. Back to New-York, he has trouble getting people to recognize him, including the closest friends he had, and his stories of monastery in which monks taught him to become the legendary immortal Iron First warrior don't help.
Review: Netflix is producing more and more series taking place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the one in which The Avengers evolve). After Jessica Jones and my favorite Daredevil, I was not too tempted by Iron Fist but it sounded like it could have some nice martial arts action scenes and mythology so why not. The series takes time to start (2-3 episodes) and show Danny's potential. Even after the show is well-started, I was disappointed not to see more use made of the Iron Fist power, which is I guess what everyone wants to see. There are a decent number of fights, but I found them most of the time badly choreographed, filmed and edited. And that's really too bad. I could say that billionaire Danny Rand is a bit the Bruce Wayne (Batman) of the Marvel Universe but we already have Tony Stark (Iron Man) for that. Some positive notes about this first season: the excellent performance by David Wenham (Boromir's brother Faramir in The Two Towers), the recurrent characters in the Marvel Universe of the nurse Claire played by Rosario Dawson (Deathproof, Clerks 2) and the lawyer Hogarth by Carrie-Ann Moss (The Matrix), the fight against the Organization called The Hand and the character of Madame Gao already encountered in Daredevil's second season, and a few nice Kung-Fu moves culminating by the encounter with a drunken Master (exquisite reference to movies with Donnie Yen or Jackie Chan) in Episode 8 The Blessing of Many Fractures. But in general and in addition to the poor fights I found the character of Danny Rand not as interesting as it could have been, but that may have been done on purpose to leave him room to grow in a second season or in the gathering of The Defenders.
Rating: 4 /10