I have been to see Real Steel twice since it came out in theaters on Oct. 7; and I enjoyed it both times.  It is an action-packed movie, but not just nonstop action that so many movies seem to be these days.  However, the plot was fairly predictable.

    Real Steel is like a mix of all six Rocky movies and Transformers. 
    It is set in the year 2027, where people have tired of the tameness of human fighting and instead have let the machines start killing each other.  Hugh Jackman stars as Charlie Kenton, a former boxer who has become a robot trainer and controller.  He becomes reunited with his estranged 11-year-old son, and together they work with a “Generation 2” robot named Atom who they find in a pile of mud on the edge of a cliff. 
   Atom rises through the ranks of ‘bots and eventually upsets “Twin Cities”, a vicious robot who fights in the WRB (World Robot Boxing) league.  After this upset Charlie’s son Max (Dakota Goyo) challenges the owner of the undisputed and undefeated WRB champion Zues, a super advanced robot that learns as it fights and can think autonomously.  Although Atom does not win, he makes through the fifth and final round, and it could be said that Atom indeed won the fight.
   Although this movie is pretty predictable in that the robot Charlie and Max find will rise through the ranks and against all odds make it to the championship, it is still a feel-good movie packed with intense action and interesting futuristic concepts.  I give this movie seven stars out of ten.