Review of Real Steel (2011) by Stefano L — 17 Oct 2012

When you hear of a movie based on Robot battles, you would expect something noisy, confused and with an abused trama with nothing interesting in it, if not the battles themselves. But in this film, it happens exactely the opposite. Though the trama is very simple and absolutely not difficult to follow, the fights do not occupy the main part of the story, they are complementary and fundamental, but not overhelming.

The atmosphere during all the lasting of the film is very classic, and you catch this particular immediately. The first scenes give you a sense of relaxation that nearly seems the director want to tell you: "hey, sit down confortably and watch this 2 hours film, you will appreciate the choice if you do." And I did, indeed!

Also the topics are very classics: The last shot given to an old man who thrown away all the previous ones he had,, the outsider that manages to arrive to the top after so many difficulties and so on. And finally, after few less that 2 hours, you do not even think that you are watching a RoboBoxe movie, but just a very good Rocky movie.