In DreamWorks Pictures’ gritty, white‐knuckle action ride “Real Steel,” Hugh Jackman stars as Charlie Kenton, a washed‐up boxer in the near‐future who, because his sport has been taken over by 8‐foot steel robots, now lives in a world where he doesn’t fit in. With no fights and no prospects, Charlie is forced to hustle as a small‐time robot fight promoter. He earns just enough money to survive by piecing together low‐end “bots” and traveling from one seamy underground boxing venue to the next for whatever prizefight he can wrangle for his automatons. Just when things can’t become any more desperate and complicated, his estranged 10‐year‐old son Max (Dakota Goyo) suddenly and unwillingly comes back into his life. I
The alienated father/son duo reluctantly team up to rebuild and train a scrap‐heap robot and turn it into a boxing contender. As stakes in the brutal, no‐holds‐barred fighting arenas are raised, against all odds Charlie gets one last shot at a comeback, and Max discovers that, win or lose, life holds more for him than he ever expected.
My family and I got the chance to go to a screening of Real Steel last Wednesday evening. I wasn't sure what the movie was about, so I watched the trailor of it a couple of days before we went. I was a little nervous about going because I wasn't really sure how my four GIRLS would like it. Afterall, it is a movie about boxing robots.
Take a look at the preview.
This movie was not disappointing at all. We had a great time and my girls LOVED it. And I really mean, they LOVED it! I have heard several "can we watch the robot movie again?" It was funny, full of action and the story was so original and great. There are a few places where the language is iffy so I am taking off one star for that but nothing else threw it off. All in all our family gave Real Steel 2 thumbs up and 4 out of 5 stars, minus the one for language.
So be sure to take your family this month to Real Steel. In Theaters October 7th!
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