Synopsis:
The movie started in a near future, whereby robot boxing is replacing traditional human boxing due to injuries where human is unable to received punishment unlike robot. The story then zero in on a robot promoter cum ex-boxer, Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) who keeps getting new robots to challenge in a bull ring, underground battle, zoo parks and etc. but the dream is to bring his robot boxer to the Professional League, WRB - World Robot Boxing. During this time, he also discover that he has full custody of his 11-year old son, Max Kenton (Dakota Goyo) from his ex-girlfriend who passed away. However, Charlie manage to get into an agreement with his ex-girlfriend sister, Debra (Hope Davis) wealthy husband, Marvin to take Max away as legal guardian only if he is paid $100,000. But the condition is Charlie will have to take care of Max for 2 months before sending him over to them. So, during the 2 months, both father & son manage to find some common ground and interest in robot boxing with Max finding an old sparring boxer robot in a metal junkyard and eventually named Atom. After clean-up and recharge the power, Atom became the best underdog boxer robot who eventually won his fights in the underground battle and was given a shot to the WRB title against the undefeated Zeus.
Review:
After reading so many positive review on this movie, i decided to find out for myself but i was extremely excited especially after seeing the trailer some time ago. The movie run time is slightly over 2 hours but the movie was not dragging nor boring. In fact, the movie has everything - funny moments especially on the first robot battle against a bull, the neat father-son relation between Jackman and Goyo. I especially think that Dakota Goyo is the best actor in the movie where he manage to portray the stubbornness of his dad, pitiful, arrogance, and caring with relative ease. He and the robot, Atom carried the movie very well compared to other veteran actors like Jackman and other. But as a whole package, the movie is a little like Rocky where the underdog became the people's champion and i for one, rooted Atom all the way to the finals. This is one movie that you should not miss for this year. I believe that director, Shawn Levy finally hit the jackpot with this movie because it has all the quality of a great movie - the family drama, the father-son relationship, and the pure robot action with great hip-hop music soundtrack.
Verdict:
I give this movie a 4 star out of 5. It still lack of some ingredient to be the best boxing movie ever. I still rate Rocky the best but this is my second best boxing movie.
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