Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a two-bit trainer traveling the state fair circuit in a not-too-distant future. His line is robot fighting, a sport that has absorbed the audience for boxing, MMA and, ...
In a near future, human boxing has been outlawed, replaced by fast-paced, high-tech robot boxing. Hugh Jackman plays Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who now promotes similarly washed-up robot ...
More than a decade after the 2011 Hollywood film Real Steel brought the thrilling idea of robot boxing to the big screen, that vision is now turning into reality. At the ongoing World Robot Conference ...
"Real Steel" dresses up a bad idea - robots boxing - with all the computer effects and heavy-metal action that Hollywood can buy. But that doesn't cover up the fact that it's a bad idea. Really bad.