Reviews

What I did love about the movie, even with it forgetting about GB2, was the familiarity it had with the original two movies.

The atmosphere is there as well with rainy scenes, dirty streets, the weather effects adding depth to scenes, though the movie isn't quite as "smoky" as the original, which is something that always bothered me a little with the original with all the steam and smoke in every scene.

All in all, I think the tone and atmosphere of this movie before you see it, should be thought of as something like Villeneuve's other recent slow-burner Blade Runner 2049, or the even older style of movie making that gave us things like Jurassic Park.

The movie starts out pretty exciting with an Indian attack, then theres the bear attack then the movie kinda stalls for 90-110 minutes, with loads of speeches and random scenes of talking about death and the harshness of life in the early 1800s, with Hardys actions pitted against DiCaprios constant ...

We had 2 major battles at the end of this film instead of 3 but the choreography, mixed with the way the movie gets you to care, or hate, the characters involved makes the movie stand strong next to the other movies that came before it.

We see NASA and its top tier people all clambering for an explanation and trying to keep the media happy and form a rescue plan at the same time, Matt Damon on Mars doing his survival thing, the crew of the ship doing their own thing to figure out how they can help its pieced together nicely, apart ...

Real Steel is so simple, and yet so already-seen-before in the scripting stakes yet so connective between the viewer and the characters and their story it actually makes the movie so much more than a basic CGI fest or actioner.

Its as though the filmmakers wanted to get straight into the big stuff as quickly as possible, and sadly it destroys any credibility and atmosphere that the movie could have had, and, even sadder is that it destroys what was potentially a pretty atmospheric and spooky movie.

Whats also highly apparent with the movie as it progresses is the change in character that Amelia and Samuel go through.

This movie is very busy, but in a very good way, with little hints and nods to what weve seen before, original concepts from Crichtons book/s, original concepts of its own, and loads of interesting characters who are actually pretty well written and acted for a movie that was originally called a bra...