Real Steel

My first movie review, I am person who always comment on something in a word or two. Most of the time it would rather be a criticism than a comment or at least it will be flavored with some-kind of sarcasm. Now that I am so bored and idle thought of trying an review in words ... 

Real Steel - To say it in short its 'Really Worth watching if you are a guy who like metals crashing at each other, robot, video games & Hugh Jackman.'  I watched it twice in last two weeks @ Finnkino. I know its bit late to write a review for Real Steel after it ran out of the theaters but I wanted to start with something I watched recently. Its more of a fan page with detailed plot than a review ;)

Not much of a star studded movie but we have a Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo in the main role. They have done their part really well rather excellent. Hugh played as Charlie Kenton and ex-boxer, father of a 11 yr old (Dakota), a character that is stupid, over-confident, emotional, muscular. It altogether a different role when compared to the Wolverine which comes to our mind when hear the name Hugh Jackman.

Its from Dreamwork Studio and Reliance Big entertainment. The CG of Robots and fight are realistic. Max and Atom dance sequence is short but cool, i expected that dance to come in the climax but it was n't there :(. Targeted audience for this movie are teenagers and geeks who owns PS3, Xbox. It over all a good entertainer got family value, fun, good sound tracks, hard-core metal crash, good acting from Jackman.

Plot: (Detailed)

               Movie is set to happen in near future 2020 or so, where human boxing replaced with Robot-boxing. Charlie Kenton (Hugh) is a ex-boxer who is currently participating in Robot-boxing with his good old robot named 'Ambush'. And he is at his very low and letting Ambush fight with a 800 pound bull in a exhibition for a bet of 20K $. Being distracted by few young chicks he is loosing the fight failing to control Ambush and letting it torn down by the crazy bull. At this point his ex-girlfriend who he have n't seen for 10yrs dies and he becomes the legal guarding of the 11 yr old kid Max. (do the math)

Ambush

Charile sells his guardianship to his ex-girl friends  (Debra) for 100K in order recover from his debt and to buy a new robot for the fight. But he was stuck with the kid for a month or so since Debra goes on a summer vacation to Italy and he gets 50K as advance.

With the 50K he gets a deal for a robot named 'Noisy Boy'  which was WRB (World Robot Boxing league) robot. Max (Dakota) comes to know about the deal about the guardianship and  feels bad about father. Charlier and Max stays along Charlie's childhood friend Bailey at her old gym. Bailey father was the boxing coach of Charlie when the human boxing existed.

Noisy Boy

Later Charlie takes Max for the robot fight and loosing Noisy Boy in a fight. Max is not happy since Charlie didn't listen to him when he asked him to go for a under-card fights instead he went for a main fight with stronger robots and lost it.

Here comes the Hero Introduction :) Later that night Charlie and Max sneaking into a old government garage to pick up some spare parts for putting up a reasonable robot out of the left over of Ambush and Noisy Boy. Robot spares are stored near a cliff in the garage and as it rains that night Max slips in to the cliff and hanging in a robot hand near a deep valley. Charlie manage to take Max from the robot hand and save him from falling from the cliff. Charlie feels his real love on Max when he felt that he almost lost him in the cliff.

 Max finds that the robot hand which saved him from falling into the valley is attached to a whole robot buried in the wet soil of the cliff. He digs out the robot and takes it to Charlie's truck. Bailey repairs that robots and identifies it as a generation two robot which was developed as test dummy during the initial times of robot boxing and it is not fit for the fights. Max fights the marking on chest of the robot that says 'Atom' and he names it as Atom. Atom has a unique feature when compared to other robots in the market i.e shadow functioning, it can replicate the action of the person who controls it.

Max asks Charlie to arrange a fight for Atom. Charlie refuses to do but later just to satisfy max he arranges a fight in a low profile area. Somehow Max wins the fight there and his robot gains popularity in the low profile circle.

Atom

I think I am going into too many details here so will wrap it up here you can watch the rest in the dvd. Atom gains popularity in low profile games and starts earning some bucks for charlie. Max starts enjoying his fathers company and boxing. Atom gets a call for participation in WRB. And wins the first under-card match in WRB becomes very popular due to Max and his show.

(Max and Atom awsome dance). Meanwhile the owner of WRB champion robot (Zues - unbeatable) gives a 200K deal for Atom and Max refuses to sell the robot also challenge Zues for a WRB fight.

 

  Days before the championship fight Debra (guardian) comes back from her vacation and charlie convince her to get Max back for one night to the fight. Zues vs Atom the climax. Atom losses the fight but a happy ending :)

As I said its more of an fan page than a review. I hope you will rent the DVD sometime. If you enjoyed the post leave a comment, will try to improve myself will come up with a real review for a new movie next time.

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