Real Steel

Review and Trailer Comments

• FilmBuff76

  Here's one for boys and their fathers everywhere... It's Rocky meets Transformers in this crowd-pleasing though not-really-original take on the underdog sports story. Thankfully, it avoids the dustbin-lid-to-the-head approach of the awful Transformers 3 and has some real heart in there. That's thanks to a solid human story which anchors viewers amid all the robot boxing carnage. When I initially saw the kid (Dakota Goyo) in the trailer, I groaned and thought he was going to be irritating. He turned out to be the real star of the film and his rapport with Hugh Jackman is superb. Sure, it's cliched but that's not always a bad thing in an acceptable popcorn film.

  Posted 23:33 | Wed 12th Oct 2011

• jack brown

  well made movie , entertaining but predictable and cliche

  Posted 18:33 | Sun 16th Oct 2011

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