It seems silly, right? Robot boxing... Maybe it is, but I don't care. This movie was so well put together that even my extreme dislike of boxing wasn't enough to generate any dislike at all for this movie. Straight up, this is a "family" movie. The boxing is mostly just a scaffold around which to build this relationship between a father and his estranged son. It could have been baseball or go-kart racing, but really, robots are cooler. And seriously, the robots in this movie are very cool. More than that, there's some effective acting from Hugh Jackman and an absolutely amazing performance from Dakota Goyo, the estranged son. Of course, he doesn't at all behave like an eleven year old kid, but that's not his fault, he's just written to have an almost sickeningly cocky attitude toward everything. Anyway, it's a fun movie with what I thought was great pacing and an entertaining story. I was expecting a bit more history behind the fighting bot "Atom," but in the end, I suppose it didn't matter. News
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Oct 8th 2011, 23:02
It seems silly, right? Robot boxing... Maybe it is, but I don't care. This movie was so well put together that even my extreme dislike of boxing wasn't enough to generate any dislike at all for this movie. Straight up, this is a "family" movie. The boxing is mostly just a scaffold around which to build this relationship between a father and his estranged son. It could have been baseball or go-kart racing, but really, robots are cooler. And seriously, the robots in this movie are very cool. More than that, there's some effective acting from Hugh Jackman and an absolutely amazing performance from Dakota Goyo, the estranged son. Of course, he doesn't at all behave like an eleven year old kid, but that's not his fault, he's just written to have an almost sickeningly cocky attitude toward everything. Anyway, it's a fun movie with what I thought was great pacing and an entertaining story. I was expecting a bit more history behind the fighting bot "Atom," but in the end, I suppose it didn't matter. 
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