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21 Laps Entertainment
DreamWorks Pictures
Reliance Entertainment
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Courage is stronger than steel.
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
Gimly
May 19, 2020 · via TMDB
I wonder if this was originally written to be a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots movie, but when they couldn't get the rights they just decided to make it anyway. In either case, it's not very good. Amazing that you could take a movie about anthropomorphic **robots** and manage to still make it into a cliche sports film. _Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._
John Chard
Aug 1, 2019 · via TMDB
No splitting this Atom, it has got a rock solid heart. Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy and collectively adapted to the screen by John Gatins, Dan Gilroy and Jeremy Leven from a Richard Matheson short story called Steel. It stars Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand, Hope Davis and James Rebhorn. Music is scored by Danny Elfman and cinematography by Mauro Fiore. Set in the near future, robot boxing is a big crowd pulling sport. After a struggling robot operator is introduced to an 11-year-old son he has never known, they stumble upon a discarded robot at a junk yard.... We can all moan about the mimicry of an idea and the clichés that dominate Real Steel, but you really got to hand it to the makers for what they have achieved. They have crafted a family film that's very much perfect in this day and age. The story is one that any adult Sylvester Stallone fan can acknowledge and appreciate, the human heartbeat pleasingly steady, while the premise of big colourful robots beating the crap out of each other delights youngsters and us adults who are still young at heart. Film pretty much does what any other film of this type does, lays on the syrup in the last quarter where second chances and family strife come thundering through the plotting. Undeniably it's hugely derivative, events are joystick operated to get an emotional response from a family audience, while product placement reins and the script often sags under the weight of unoriginality. But it does uplift the spirit and getting to the end is easy since it's so much berserker fun. Yes it's the robot Atom, the people's champion, yes it's David vS Goliath and yes! It's Balboa vS Creed. Nothing wrong with that really. The cast don't really have to offer up much beyond being adequate within the context of the material, though a muscular Jackman finds good paternal chemistry with young Goyo. In fact Goyo is pleasingly not annoying, always a bonus is that. Inevitably the robots are the stars, they're a triumph of design and visual effects and a sight for sore eyes, while Levy has a good handle on staging the fight sequences - even when cribbing from Balboa. The near future look is terrific as well, with Fiore's colour photography very appealing. Coining in over $290 million at the worldwide box office (over £180 million in profit), Real Steel found the family audience it was looking for, proving once again that there is a market for simple and effective popcorn carnage. It's not high art or intelligently scripted, but was anyone seriously thinking that was going to be the case here? If you want brains with this premise then seek out Twilight Zone episode "Steel", starring the excellent Lee Marvin, otherwise just sit back and enjoy the ride and let the botty bots and human interest raise the pulse and gladden the heart respectively. 7/10 Home format release is a sparkling print, extras are annoyingly short but the blooper reel is fun, we get a stunt deconstruction, and we learn about the influence a certain Mr. Spielberg had on the production.
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Charlie Kenton
Dakota Goyo
Max Kenton
Evangeline Lilly
Bailey Tallet
Kevin Durand
Ricky
Anthony Mackie
Finn
Hope Davis
Aunt Debra
James Rebhorn
Marvin
Karl Yune
Tak Mashido
Sophie Levy
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Torey Adkins
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Phil LaMarr
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San Leandro Gentleman #2
David Alan Basche
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Julian Gant
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Peter Carey
Bing Arena Announcer
Dan Lemieux
Bing Arena Ref
Ricky Wayne
Underground Promoter
Taris Tyler
Robot Promoter
Kevin Dorman
Atom Performance Capture
John Manfredi
Sergei Lemkova
Mike Ancrile
Fight Fan (uncredited)
Leah Barkoff
Upscale Fight Fan (uncredited)
Ben Hernandez Bray
Ricky's Henchman (uncredited)
Ron Causey
Kingpin's Henchman (uncredited)
Johnny Flynn
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Logan Fry
Rabid Fight Fan (uncredited)
Kef Lee
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Megan Mockensturm
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Anton Narinskiy
Farra's Body Guard (uncredited)
Chris Newman
Starblaze Security Guard (uncredited)
Alan D. Purwin
Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
Miguel Sandoval
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Jojuan Westmoreland
Zoo Fight Fan (uncredited)
Amanda Bright
Ricky's Girl (uncredited)
Rima Fakih
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Miles Teves
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Michael Anthony Jackson
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Seth Reed
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Marlene Stewart
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Gary Archer
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John Rosengrant
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Caitlin McKenna
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Richard Hicks
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Jack Rapke
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Mary McLaglen
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