Real Steel

Rating 7.5 out of 10

I think they started playing the previews for this movie last Christmas.  Drives me nuts when they start pushing a movie a year before it comes out.  Turns out this movie was worth the wait.  I liked this movie alot.

This movie does not break new ground plot wise.  It's just a fun movie to watch.  In the not so distant future boxing has gone from humans duking it out to huge 2000 pound robots that look like they came off my rock 'em sock'em robot game I played with as a kid.

Hugh Jackman plays the down and out guy who in his younger days was a decent boxer with heart, but maybe not talent.  Now he runs the robots with less success than he had as a boxer.  He finds a woman he had a fling with many years before and had a son he gave up on has passed away.  Now the son he has never known is spending the summer with him.  Together they find a broken down robot on a trash heap. You can guess the rest.

Doesn't matter.  You will want to stand and cheer as the robot goes from fight to fight and Father and son start to bond.  This is just a fun movie that you can take the whole family to.  I recommend it.