Hugh Jackman plays an unreliable unwilling father in this slightly future forward and a little backward tale about robot wars and family in an attempt to show the world that it doesn't matter what you're made of, you should never go down without a fight.
The movie gets into the swing of things -pun not intended- pretty quickly which I was quite happy about, as Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) finds out that his ex-girlfriend has passed away and he is now left with a son that he doesn't want. Happy to take him off his hands is his late ex-girlfriends sister, but her husband has another plan in mind. Offering Charlie $100,000 to keep son Max (Dakota Goyo) with him for the summer so that him and his wife can enjoy a pre planned European trip.
Bargaining half now and half later, Charlie excepts and so begins a summer of unwilling bonding between father and son. Luckily one thing they do have in common is their love for Robot Boxing.
Max finds an old sparring bot who he names Atom and with the help of his dad, an old boxing champion they begin training him up and slowly gain attention from the media. Way over his head and caught up in the moment of what his robot has managed to achieve thus far Max challenges the reining World Robot Champion Boxer Zeus (and his wealthy sponsor and designer) to a fight.
I didn't watch this film out of choice and I should have kept to my original intuition, as I felt the father son relationship was predictable, the only differentiation from any other dysfunctional family problems was that it involved robots. Though the actors managed to make their roles look convincing, I couldn't quite place what year they were supposed to be in because though these robots were pretty technical, I saw no flying cars or particularly amazing new age cities. It lacked real steal in developing what kind of world we would be living in at a point where we can have 10 foot robot toys to play with.
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