Real Steel

Real Steel takes place in the not-so-distant future, where people don't box anymore, robots do, and I guess the sport is pretty popular. I'm going to be lazy and tell you the IMDB says: A struggling promoter feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father. This synopsis is not very accurate, but close enough. Starring Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, and Dakota Goyo as the kid, Max.

Hugh Jackman starts off as a pretty awful guy, and it's hard to believe that he can be so mean and uncaring to his own son. At least he looks good doing it, and there's a kind of silly part at the end where he tries to tell his kid that he loves him. Other than that, it's cheesy family fun, and the robot fighting is pretty cool.

One part that seemed important, but is never really developed is the humanness of the robots. At one point we are lead to believe that Atom (the robot) could maybe be able to think autonomously, but it never really goes anywhere. So instead of being a movie about how robots and humans treat one another, in say, like AI, it's about a father/son relationship. Nothing wrong with that I guess, it's just more of a family/action film than a sci-fi.