Review: Real Steel

I watched real steel today.  Although, today was not my first time watching real steel, I have watched it once before.

Real steel is about robot fights.  It sounds nerdy but I am a nerd and the movie is awesome.  I don’t want to give away too much.  A man named Charles (goes by Charlie) gets robots and enters them in fights.  He bets a lot of moneys and when he loses the fights, he owes people a lot of cash.  People call him almost every day saying “where’s my money?” and “I’m coming for my money so you better have it!”

Charlie’s ex girlfriend dies unexpectedly and Charlie goes to court to see who gets custody of the child, him or the child’s aunt and uncle.  Charlie doesn’t want his son and he makes an agreement with the boy’s uncle, who is wealthy to take his son for the summer (his son’s aunt and uncle are going to Italy for the summer) if Marvin (the boys uncle) gives him 100k so he can get a new robot and repay whoever he owes money to.  Charlie and his son get an old robot that had a shadow-boxing feature which is if the robot watches you, he copies what you do.  The robot fights and always wins.  I won’t tell you any more than that!

Director:  Shawn Levy

Writers:  John Gatins (screenplay) and Dan Gilroy (story)

Stars:  Hugh Jackman (playing Charlie), Evangeline Lilly (playing Bailey) and Dakota Goyo (playing max, Charlie’s son)

The IMDB rating is 7.2, not bad!  I give real steel a portiasplace7!

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