Steel

There's a funny, entertaining, good vs. evil movie built around O'Neal--lots of plot and strong support from "Suddenly Susan" boss Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Annabeth Gish and the city of Los Angeles, home of Shaq's day job with the Lakers. [18 Aug 1997, p.F4]

The concept may not be bad, but there are times when the execution borders on embarrassing.

SHAQUILLE O'NEAL: Don't give up your day job. After a lackluster outing as a genie in "Shazam," the LA Lakers star does little to put any shine on "Steel," a movie that draws its laughs from lots of rock-em-sock-em pyrotechnics and comic book visuals.[15 Aug 1997, p.3E]

The biggest target, however, is O'Neal, whose monotone and slurred lines deaden each scene in which he speaks. He's trying so clumsily to do this acting gig right and keeps tripping over his size-22 feet by absurdly wiggling his eyebrows or forcing a joke. You get the impression that he doesn't know what his lines mean. Finally, we realize that acting is just one more thing that O'Neal can't do as well as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. [15 Aug 1997, p.6]

"Steel" plays like a Saturday morning cartoon -- overdone stunts and hokey chase sequences with the hero on a motorcycle, dodging heavily armed gangsters as well as cops who think he's a bad guy.

The film is slow-moving, overlong and never more ambitious than a TV feature, though younger kids will probably respond to O'Neal's amiability. [16 Aug 1997, p.24]

Steel's target audience of 12-year-old boys would be better off staying home and busying themselves at traditional, character-enriching activities: sniping at family pets with BB guns, playing Nintendo, and masturbating.

After watching the trailer of the movie made in 1990, I thought of Terminator and Robocop. Shaquille O'Neal was a great basketball player. I think that the movie he acted in attracted people's interest at that time. I thought it was a good movie with shootings and battles just like Robocop.

If you really value your time, don't even research it on the internet. Because it's so rubbish. A bunch of anti-actresses are getting together and shooting flies. The woman sitting in the wheelchair is an actress! That's it!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See what I did wrong, I went to see him!!!!!!!!! But don't worry. It's not the worst movie. Because we have worse ones that really ****. Oh God, what kind of brain has it in their mind to make a spin-off movie based on an unknown character and 2nd grade DC?!

This is the worst comic book movie of all time, and yes it’s worse thin Batman and robin.