Movie Review: Real Steel

This movie was very pretty, from a visual sense, and it had good music. Unfortunately, if I wanted to watch a pretty movie with good music, I would watch Fly Away Home, not ROBOT BOXING.

Really, that’s the premise of the movie: ROBOT BOXING. Sounds exciting! And yet I fast-forwarded over vast swathes of the first hour or so (the movie is over *two hours* long) because it was so dull. (It’s possible I have been forever spoiled by seeing the third Bourne movie in theaters — so much excitement! I had no idea what was going on, but it was happening SO FAST!)

Anyway, the biggest problem I had with the movie was not the horrible sidelining of female characters, or the lack of interesting plot, but the lack of any actual character development. So I made up my own. Get ready for this:

MAX IS A ROBOT.

It kind of works, if you don’t think about it too hard, which clearly the movie’s creators did not. It can be used to explain away some of the most egregious handwave moments, and takes the movie to a much more interesting ‘I, Robot’ kind of place instead of a ‘Wolverine: Origins: if Wolverine were really boring and robots boxed’ place.

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.