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Sometime in the not-too-distant future, boxing has been outlawed and replaced by fighting matches with robots. Big robots. Hulking, rock 'em, sock 'em mechanical robots. But if those machines are cutting edge, Real Steel sticks to an old-fashioned style of storytelling, with a tale of a down-and-out fight manager (Hugh Jackman) looking for a good 'bot to get back in the game, and get back out of debt. Hearts are further tugged by the arrival of this guy's 11-year-old son (Dakota Goyo), who hasn't seen his dad in many years but now needs tending. There's something endearing about the way nobody ever pauses to remark on the fact that they are in the presence of giant remote-controlled prizefighting robots; it's taken for granted in this cockeyed universe. Loosely inspired by a Richard Matheson-penned episode of The Twilight Zone, Shawn Levy's film is lavishly mounted and fairly ridiculous--although in this case, the human interactions are more preposterous and formulaic than the fun robot action. Jackman plays to his roguish strengths, Evangeline Lilly (Lost) gets the perfunctory love interest role, and the villains are uncomplicatedly hissable, from Jackman's good ol' boy rival (Kevin Durand) to the heavily accented owners (Olga Fonda, Karl Yune) of the most fearsome of robots, the undefeated Zeus. If you can imagine Rocky restaged with a pile of spare parts, you might be the audience for Real Steel. --Robert Horton
Real Steel (Three-Disc Combo: Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy) Reviews
Real Steel (Three-Disc Combo: Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy) Reviews
| 47 of 55 people found the following review helpful:  Mix Rocky with Paper Moon, add in robots, and voila! A really fun, highly enjoyable hit of a movie, By This review is from: Real Steel (Three-Disc Combo: Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy) (Blu-ray) Real Steel, directed by Shawn Levy, is one of the very few movies I've seen in recent years where the audience I was in actually broke into applause in various scenes. A masterfully done tale of underdogs - a boy and his dad and a discarded robot - going against the odds, it really does get you pumped up to that level. I got a bigger kick out of this movie than I have from any other this year. It really is that much fun to watch.The germ idea for Real Steel comes from a 1956 short story by Richard Matheson that was made into a classic Twilight Zone episode, and the look is right out of the Transformers franchise, but the heart - and there's a lot of it in this film - comes in equal measure from two films one would ordinarily have never linked together: John Avildsen's boxing classic Rocky (1976) and Peter Bogdanovich's Depression-era con-man & kid road trip classic Paper Moon (1973). The plot is set in the not so distant future of 2020, where human boxing... Read more 9 of 11 people found the following review helpful: The best - action for husbands and a tear jerker for wives, By This review is from: Real Steel (DVD) Technically a Sci-Fi movie, this movie is really a story of a father redeeming his relationship with a son he never knew, and of the character change that occurs in the father throughout the movie. The story is very well told, drawing you into the characters experiences, and although my wife loathes Sci-Fi movies, she loved this movie and cried during some scenes. It's got a lot action in it as well and is fun to watch. I do not watch many movies twice, but I'll be buying this movie and we'll be enjoying it repeatedly. The robot they prepare together serves as a device for a David and Goliath storyline as well. Hard to believe when reading this, but you'll be cheering for the father and son and their robot as well. 12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:  It's like watching a giant robot boxing video game on the movie screen..., By freeismylife (Detroit) - See all my reviews This review is from: Real Steel (DVD) On Monday September 28, 2011, I and my son were invited to an advance screening of the new DreamWorks Pictures' movie Real Steel that was shown at the Uptown Palladium in Birmingham. MI. It turned to be one exciting film that we both enjoyed from beginning to end.Real Steel takes place in the year 2020 where boxing is now done by robots that fight to the death. Hugh Jackman plays Charlie Kenton, a washed up former fighter turned robot boxing promoter that has been down on his luck for a good while. Charlie has been trying to hit it big in robot boxing, but ends up owing large sums of money to some very dangerous people. One day he finds out that his former girlfriend has died, leaving him as the official guardian to his 11 year old son Max (played by Dakoto Goyo), who Charlie has not seen since since Max was a baby. Max's aunt (played by Hope Davis) wants Charlie to give up custody of Max to her and her very rich husband. And Charlie sees this situation as... Read more |
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