SummaryA gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech. Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap ... Read More
Directed By:Shawn Levy
Written By:Richard Matheson, John Gatins, Dan Gilroy, Jeremy Leven
Real Steel
Metascore
Mixed or Average
56
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
56
38% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
59% Mixed
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20 Reviews
3% Negative
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1 Review
Oct 5, 2011
91
Real Steel is directed by "Night at the Museum's" Shawn Levy, who makes good use of his specialized skill in blending people and computer-made imaginary things into one lively, emotionally satisfying story.
Oct 5, 2011
75
Real Steel is a real movie. It has characters, it matters who they are, it makes sense of its action, it has a compelling plot. This is the sort of movie, I suspect, young viewers went to the "Transformers" movies looking for.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
69% Positive
349 Ratings
349 Ratings
23% Mixed
118 Ratings
118 Ratings
7% Negative
36 Ratings
36 Ratings
Jun 20, 2026
10
This is one of the best movies i have ever watched when i first wached it i almowst cried
Oct 14, 2025
10
on my opinion is very excellent.I see this movie many times because it's one of my favorites, the actors are excellent too for ****'s one of my favorite movies because is really exciting and very good.I think you can see it because is a very exciting movie.
Oct 5, 2011
67
Real Steel falls somewhere near the intersection of elation and shame, essentially reworking the Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling non-classic "Over The Top" for the equally ridiculous sport of android fisticuffs, and mostly getting away with it.
Oct 4, 2011
60
Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, the movie's special effects are seamless and far more cleanly cut than any of Michael Bay's hash. But the element that lingers longest is a subtle strand - also woven into last week's "Take Shelter" - of recessionary anxiety.
Oct 7, 2011
50
They should call this overloud, underwhelming movie "Real Steal."
Oct 6, 2011
50
I suspect a lot of what I found synthetic and sort of galling in Real Steel will work just fine with the target audience.
Oct 7, 2011
38
Real Steel is to action what the Anthony Weiner habit was to sex: It's so virtual, so distant from the thrill, that you wonder what the point is. Do you really want to pay to watch an actor playing a kid who in turn plays what amounts to a video game?
Nov 29, 2025
6
Ortalama üstü bir yapım bence. Keyifliydi izlemesi. Tavsiye edilir izlemek isteyenlere...
Dec 30, 2015
6
I have personally outgrew this film. The movie's just basically Rocky with Transformers over it. This isn't my type of taste in movies anymore as I find better movies to watch.
Aug 20, 2019
3
Real Steel is painfully boring sci-fi movie.What this movie lacks is the human **** characters themselves are like robots.
Feb 22, 2016
3
Extremely disappointing I came into this film expecting robots boxing each other as Hugh Jackman acts as a manager,instead I got a infuriating kid,a uninterested Hugh Jackman and horribly done fights. Would not recommend.
Production Company:
- DreamWorks Pictures
- Reliance Entertainment
- 21 Laps Entertainment
- Angry Films
Release Date:Oct 7, 2011
Duration:2 h 7 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:If you get one shot, make it real.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)
• 2 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
