Leading up to the release of Hugh Jackman’s Real Steel, I’ve been saying all along that I’m not the biggest fan of director Shawn Levy. I haven’t liked any of his films, and I wasn’t expecting much for his latest film. Real Steel looked like it could be a fun entertaining film, but with Levy behind the camera I just didn’t think I would be impressed, I thought it would fall short of any kind of awesomeness because Levy hasn’t ever made an awesome movie. That being said, the film ended up being a lot better than I expected, and I had a great time watching it.
The story is set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, the boxing replaced humans with big bad 8 foot tall, 2000 pound awesome robots. Jackman plays a washed-up fighter with absolutely no common sense or likability. He’s just a small-time boxing promoter, trying to make a living and paying off some deep debts he has with the wrong people. He eventually hits rock bottom due to his stupidity, and he ends up spending time with his estranged son Max who will help ignite some hope into his dads life by finding and training a championship robot contender named Atom.
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Leading up to the release of Hugh Jackman’s Real Steel, I’ve been saying all along that I’m not the biggest fan of director Shawn Levy. I haven’t liked any of his films, and I wasn’t expecting much for his latest film. Real Steel looked like it could be a fun entertaining film, but with Levy behind the camera I just didn’t think I would be impressed, I thought it would fall short of any kind of awesomeness because Levy hasn’t ever made an awesome movie. That being said, the film ended up being a lot better than I expected, and I had a great time watching it.
The story is set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, the boxing replaced humans with big bad 8 foot tall, 2000 pound awesome robots. Jackman plays a washed-up fighter with absolutely no common sense or likability. He’s just a small-time boxing promoter, trying to make a living and paying off some deep debts he has with the wrong people. He eventually hits rock bottom due to his stupidity, and he ends up spending time with his estranged son Max who will help ignite some hope into his dads life by finding and training a championship robot contender named Atom.