In the role of 11-year-old, newly motherless Max, he is the saving grace of “Real Steel,” helping not only to bring out the humanity in Atom — Max just knows the bot has the circuitry of a ...

Real Steel”’s most laughable component is a pseudo-philosophical suggestion that Atom may, possibly, be sentient. A long, still shot holds on Atom as his unblinking blue eyes stare and stare ...

Max and Atom become a fan favorite, dancing into the ring, and, of course, performing the robot dance. Real Steel is a movie about the very opposite of real. A movie with no heart, with the humans ...

But when the robot is destroyed, they go to a scrap yard to get parts. Max finds an old generation robot named Atom and restores him. Max wants Atom to fight but Charlie tells him he won't last a ...

“In the role of 11-year-old, newly motherless Max, he is the saving grace of Real Steel, helping not only to bring out the humanity in Atom — Max just knows the bot has the circuitry of a ...

In Real Steel, bot boxer Atom learns to spar by mimicking Jackman's movements. Something similar is occurring in real life. "We got the best performance out of DARPA's Crusher robot when a human ...

first with a bot that gets destroyed then with a makeshift old sparring robot named Atom that looks like it belongs on Tatooine. After a couple of amazing victories, the relatively slight machine ...

It’s not an easy task, but Real Steel, Hugh Jackman’s robot-boxing movie that opens in theaters Oct. 7, aims to connect on both accounts. Atom, the underdog robot Jackson’s over-the-hill pug ...

Legacy Effects built 24 robot puppet in total, including versions of the main "stars" Atom, Noisy Boy ... you think of them as real." --Shawn Levy, "Real Steel" director "We had remarkably ...

and while Atom eventually hits a lot of other robots, it’s much more about what that means to Charlie and Max. It’s not diminished expectations in action when I recommend Real Steel.