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Real Steel Reviews
As hokey as that sounds, "Real Steel" will catch you with a body blow of father-son emotion.
A tired old cast re-pressed and coated with a shiny new layer of wax.
Distill 'Rocky' and 'The Champ,' add a dash of The Rumble in the Jungle, shake well and serve in larger-than-life rock ’em sock ’em robots. That’s basically what you get with 'Real Steel'...
Real Steel may be a science-fiction sports movie but the heart of the story comes through the family drama.
It's a surprisingly effective and entertaining techno-sports, father/son, human drama.
I can see myself stumbling across it while trying to find something to watch on late night TV. I'd stop to watch a scene or two, and then quickly move on
The ending is predictable and played out with all the drama that's typical throughout the film. I'd say director Shawn Levy missed the mark on the target audience for this one.
Even though the story is paint by numbers and there really isn't anything new being done in this it is still pretty enjoyable.
Though initially targeted at younger teenaged boys, Real Steel has somehow made more of itself and become a feel-good movie about redemption both families and adult escapists will applaud.
Real Steel has box office bomb written all over it and yet, miraculously, it is one of the finest family films I have seen in many a moon.
Real Steel earns every single laugh, every single tear, and every single gasp from its audience.
With its tale of redemption, reconnection and triumphant underdogs interwoven with seamless effects boasting a palpable physicality, Real Steel does nothing new but does it well.
It's more of a throwback to Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick, a rags-to-middle-class-respectability tale about the humble joy of old-fashioned decency.
It's a film that captures the ethic of those Amblin movies, adding buckets of imagination, too.
Real Steel is real fun - get your bot in the ring!
It's as corny as Kansas, but the mix of old fashioned heart and new fangled animatronic cyber tech will make this picture a winner for fathers and sons.
I don't know where robot boxing falls on your moral spectrum, but I'd take a pre-teen to see Real Steel, as long as we had a long talk afterwards about the evils of product placement.
All things considered, it is a well-wrought piece of entertainment, confidently paced, although its necessary subplots are little more than dutiful filler sandwiched between fight sequences.
A feelgood film about family, friendship and growing up, Real Steel was always going to attract cynicism but it really does a fine job of delivering for a young audience.
"It's O.K. We shouldn't mention the movies we're planning to rip off wholesale, anyway. We'll be original and say the movie's based in part on an old short story that was used for a Twilight Zone episode once."