2/5
When I first heard of the idea of Real Steel, I thought it sounded pretty interesting but would be hard to pull off. I finally decided to check it out and I must have say Real Steel does have promise but falls just short.
Real Steel is about Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) who is a former boxer who now fights Robots so to get his son Max through a financial deal with his Max's uncle after Max's mother and his former wife dies. He has three weeks with his son Max before he has to give him back to Max's aunt and uncle who go off on a trip. During the three weeks, his son finds an odd robot which changes his life dramatically.
First, I think the highlight of the film is Max played by Dakota Goyo. He does a very good job and hopefully he will get more roles because of this. The robots are very well done and realistic. The action scenes are put together real well and they are very fun to watch. Hugh Jackman's character is a very big problem though. Jackman's acting is fine but his character is not likeable at all. He is mad at everything and it seems he wants a different life.Even though the action scenes are pretty awesome, there are very few. I know you need to develop the plot but there are only three big action scenes in two hours.
The robots were cool but how they found the main one was ridiculous. They find it on a cliff in a junkyard. In all my fifteen years of living, I never heard of a junkyard with a cliff in it and I would have to believe that would break some type of safety standard. Real Steel has moments of fun and some great action scenes but has bad direction and some bad moves ruin this film.
