Monday, November 14, 2011

Real Steel (2011) - Action Adventure Movie



"Courage is stronger than steel"

Genre:
Action | Sci-fi / Action | Adventure

Cast:
Hugh Jackman
Dakota Goyo
Evangeline Lilly
Anthony Mackie
Kevin Durand

Director:
Shawn Levy



Real Steel is an action - adventure / sci-fi movie based on a 1956 short story "Steel" by Richard Matheson. The film stars Hugh Jackman (Wolverine , X-Men movie series), Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly (The Hurt Locker), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), and Kevin Durand (Dark Angel).

Summary:
Set in the near-future, in time where humans have been replaced by robots in the sport of boxing, Charlie Kenton (played by Hugh Jackman), a former boxer and a struggling promoter believes that he and his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) had built a "champion" robot out of scrap metals. Now that the stakes are raised, Charlie and Max, equipped with courage and determination, is about to face the no-holds-barred arena of underground robot boxing  to get the second chance of his life on a sport that he once loved.


Movie Trivia:
  • Real Steel movie is based on a short story by Richard Matheson named "Steel". It was also made into an episode of The Twilight Zone called Steel
  • Sugar Ray Leonard, a retired professional boxer, supervised the robot boxing fight scenes, using motion-capture technology
Source: IMDB

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