Real Steel, a movie you can't miss

     
A great family movie. What is there not to like in it? 
The premise is simple really: at some point in the future Boxing has been disappearing and being replaced by Robot Fighting. One of the last boxers in the world, Charlie Kenton, character played by Hugh Jackman, has gotten into that business with very limited success. At the same time he is left with the responsibility of taking care of his only son whose mother has recently died and whose custody will eventually be turned over Kenton´s sister in law.  Kenton wants nothing with the kid,  however, his son, Max played by Dakota Goyo, is the person who is destined to make his life complete and lets him rediscover the power of human heart. Accidentally these two run into an abandoned robot and Max rebuilds it, reprograms it  and convinces his father to use this robot, called Atom, a chance to fight again. The rest is something you have to see. I particularly like the special effects: perfectly balanced just because they look real enough. The acting is just right with the kid being the star and Evangeline Lilly, as one of Charlie´s ex girlfriends and who´s been helping Charlie to get on  despite Charlie´s disastrous economic life. The story is consistent without being excellent, and it´s successful in terms that it delivers more than your average film by simply involving you all the way to the very end.  
It deserves five stars, hands down.














































































































Comments

Carlos said…
That moovie was amazing. The conflict and the drama of the moovie was interesting, the special effects we also good. In this moovie the director touched socity problems as the relationship father-son, and also how the advance of technology is replacing the human work.
July 11, 2012 at 8:45 PM
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