Review: "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots: The Movie" - er..."Real Steel" - is a surprisingly good family flick
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Film Rating: B+
There is not a singular original screw in “Real Steel’s” robotic body. One can point to just about any element of the film and find an older movie that did the exact same thing, and from frame one, there’s never any doubt about where the story is going. It is predictable as hell, an exceedingly familiar movie.
But it’s also a very good…
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