Dreamworks SKG, a hollywood studio and distributor partly owned by spielberg, katsenberg and geffen AND Indian megladon Reliance coughs up an action fare for its post-summer release - Hugh Jackman putting up his dukes for a robot-versus-robot fight flick. Is the concept cool? Damn straight.
The Skinny: In the near future sports fighting has changed - humans no longer enter the ring to knock each other out, but instead robots battle it out. Enter Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), ex-boxer and wannabe promoter who tries to revive a discarded robot into a mean fighting machine at the same time create some meaning in his life through the wonderful thing called money ...
The Helmer: Shawn Levy - How to Talk to Girls (2012), Family Album (TV) (2011), Date Night (2010), Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian (2009), Night at the Museum (2006), Pepper Dennis (TV) (2006), The Pink Panther (2006), Joint Custody (TV) (2005), The Deerings (TV) (2004), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Just Married (2003), Birds of Prey (TV) (2002), Do Over (TV) (2002), Big Fat Liar (2002), The Famous Jett Jackson (TV) (1998 - 2001), Jett Jackson - The Movie (2001), In a Heartbeat (TV) (2000), So Weird (TV) (1999), Animorphs (TV) (1998 - 1999), Stray Dog (1999), The Secret Life of Alex Mack (TV) (1996 - 1997), Dead Man's Gun (TV) (1997), Address Unknown (1997), Just in Time (1997).
Release Date: 7th October 2011
The Prediction: Looking at the storyline you see potential hard action - ex-boxer, fight robots, the future ... you mix them up and you get an ex-boxer duking it out with robots in the ring set in the future. Thats what I'd think. But then you check out the trailer, and you read the synopsis and what you get is: ex-boxer, robots, the future - ex-boxer teaching robots how to fight in the future. Does not exactly scream full action does it? It doesnt. And ... theres a little lost son who appears in Charlie's life out of the blues. And there you have the drama element. Added to that you have a helmer who does mainly comedy. So you sit back and think: what the fork? Do I see humans battling robots or do I see robots battling robots, in the ring, like a miniscule version of Transformers? Having said all that however, I am still keen to catch this one. Because the whole set-up does look pretty interesting. What I'm thinking - the could've milked it and pushed it more towards a robot-on-man action flick with a red-hot burning revenge motive. Thats what I'd push for. Damn straight.
