Real film Steel Reviews
From billboards might think this is the second Transformers movie, Woe unto us, when in fact, Real Steel is a cross between Rocky and Champ. It is a shamelessly manipulative and formulas, but played in good faith ... and it works.
This project has been developing for years after watchful eye of Steven Spielberg, and covers only superficial resemblance to Richard Matheson story that inspired it. (You may remember the first adaptation, a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone called "steel" with-
-Lee Marvin.) Scenario is credited to John Gatin, with the credit history to Dan Gilroy and Jeremy Leven.
The time is near, future. Hugh Jackman plays an irresponsible soldier stranded price Ekes his life as manager of boxing robots. When his ex-wife dies, he is forced to spend a summer looking after his 11-year-old son, a boy, he never really knew (played by Dakota Goyo newcomer) is a wise superfan robot boxers. This is the boy who has faith in a "scrap heap" Jackman is ready to absorb. With a little TLC and experience Boxing Jackman takes the machine thrown into the Big Time, and helps to cement relations between father and son damaged.
Under the direction of Shawn Levy, the story never misses a beat with a fully committed performance by Jackman Lilly, Evangeline (like the woman who has always believed in him), and Goyo young people face, which bears a strong resemblance to Ricky Schroder and has the same ability to make more exciting, even if you try to resist.
Technically, the film is one of these modern wonders where it is impossible to tell where reality ends and CGI takes over. (In fact, the main characters of animatronic robot was built as a "puppet" standing eight feet tall. Only when they walk or box that are not real.) But the film lives or dies the human element, and if you're a fan of a story that involves a stranger and the redemption of a father in the eyes of his son-in would gladly go to Real Steel. If you are looking for something gritty or just interested in high-tech battle between machines, you have to look elsewhere.
