Introduced to me by a friend of mine, I have to say that... it's really not a bad show at all! This is just coming from an ordinary cinema-goer, so you don't have to take my review as seriously as a professional movie critic. Well, here's the trailer for the movie:
First impression when I took a look at the trailer was this: it looked like Transformers, just not as impressive. I have to say that the Transformers franchise is really very appealing and spectacular, with all their bells and whistles--totally great CGI altogether, coupled with a not-too-bad storyline. Real Steel is unable to top Transformers in any way at all, and I guess the producers knew that from the very beginning, so they decided to take another direction. The movie is sophisticated in its own manner.
While I wouldn't say that this movie is a must-watch, I wouldn't say it's a bad movie altogether. It's the kind of movie where... it's great to watch, fulfilling, you get the bang for buck, but it doesn't leave a profound, lasting impact on you like Christopher Nolan's movies (Inception, Dark Knight), or Avatar (I've not watched that show however). Anyway, from this point onwards, I'll be talking about the movie, so there will be...
Spoilers. Having said that, let's move on. ;)
In this movie, there are two protagonists: Charlie, someone who seems like a good-for-nothing, irresponsible chap yet charming in his own way, and Max, his ballsy son whose mom passed away. Charlie used to be a professional boxer; however, the advent of robot boxing took away his career altogether, and now he's just participating in robot boxing (but he's not too good at it!). His long-lost son comes along, finds a trashed robot at the edge of a cliff, and keeps fighting his way through, together with his dad!
There are times where emotions swell, because you can just feel the desire for the Max's robot, Atom, to win, and Atom does just that. Some matches are very much like those in Hajime no Ippo, I would say, where the robot is about to lose... and yet he returns with a great comeback. Those would be the first and final two matches. The matches in between, however, shows how Atom devours his opponents quickly and skilfully. Unlike other fighting movies, however, Real Steel does not have the same action, thrill, and excitement that you get from martial arts movies (those China ones, where the fights are so well-choreographed it is such an amazement to watch).
Other than that, Real Steel brings to the viewer the emotions of love (fatherly love, mostly), fear (they lose, they lose everything), and justice (especially when beating down Zeus), put together with a subtle tinge of humour (those two make a great team!). This movie might not be a must-watch, but it is certainly not a bad movie. The ending... felt a big lacking, though. In French, I believe the word for it would be manque!
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