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Alynda Wheat, People: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Robots beat each other up. If you're looking for something more emotionally stimulating than that, you're in the wrong theater." (Read the full review...) 169 words, 10/06/11 Mary Pols, Time: WEAK "...the story remains sadly mired in botdom, which leads to some boredom.... It's all just technological fussing; there's no urgency, no point to be made about strength or weakness." (Read the full review...) 758 words, 10/07/11 David Germain, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "...dresses up a bad idea -- robots boxing -- with all the computer effects and heavy-metal action that Hollywood can buy.... horribly predictable..." (Read the full review...) 793 words, 10/06/11 Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: WEAK (cg) "Each time the flick builds momentum, it drowns in sappy cliches. The appealing Jackman deserves better. A lot better." (Read the full review...) 67 words, 10/06/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...one lively, emotionally satisfying story.... builds to a well-earned emotional climax, handled with real class and affection by Jackman and his unfazed young costar." (Read the full review...) 372 words, 10/07/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: MODERATE (cg) "Sugar Ray Leonard helped with the motion-capture, and it shows. Good stuff. But the tear-jerking is as shameless as its product placement. We're being hustled." (Read the full review...) 222 words, 10/07/11 Claudia Puig, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "...hampered by leaden, clichéd moments in which a stubborn boy teaches his childish father a valuable lesson. At least the well-paced action is rarely creaky." (Read the full review...) 489 words, 10/07/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...it's a real movie. It has characters, it matters who they are... it has a compelling plot.... Sometimes you go into a movie with low expectations and are pleasantly surprised." (Read the full review...) 827 words, 10/07/11 James Rocchi, MSN Movies: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...earns no small amount of points for being better than it might have been.... a well-made, well-managed family fighting fantasy..." (Read the full review...) 720 words, 10/05/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD (cg) "There's sentiment and manipulation, impressive special effects work, and some electric robot boxing sequences.... a legitimate crowd-pleaser." (Read the full review...) 1,051 words, 10/05/11
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a well-wrought piece of entertainment, confidently paced, although its necessary subplots are little more than dutiful filler sandwiched between fight sequences." (Read the full review...) 848 words, 10/07/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "...feels as if it were made inside the mind of a kid obsessed with robots. For the preteen, robot-loving crowd, that won't be a problem. For everyone else..." (Read the full review...) 477 words, 10/07/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Perhaps 'Reel Steal' would be the better title.... this recycled reclamation of underdogs saga is neither as bad as it sounds nor quite as good as it could be..." (Read the full review...) 753 words, 10/07/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "...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?" (Read the full review...) 707 words, 10/07/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...a boxing picture welded to speculative fiction set in the near-future... the screwiest genre mash-up since 'Cowboys & Aliens.' " (Read the full review...) 570 words, 10/07/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "A loud, nonsensical video game of a movie that squashes even Jackman's high-watt charm." (Read the full review...) 330 words, 10/07/11 Logan Hill, New York Magazine: POOR "...so overstuffed with overblown themes that it's as incoherent as a Super Bowl halftime show and just as hammily patriotic." (Read the full review...) 686 words, 10/07/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...it's a real movie. It has characters, it matters who they are... it has a compelling plot.... Sometimes you go into a movie with low expectations and are pleasantly surprised." (Read the full review...) 827 words, 10/07/11 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...'almost human.' This is about the highest praise the mechanistic, spare-parts melodrama deserves." (Read the full review...) 648 words, 10/05/11 Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Lovers of blood sport action are going to enjoy the well-staged fighting sequences... tender hearts seeking emotional depth will find the father-son conflict reasonably engaging." (Read the full review...) 609 words, 10/07/11 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...borrows so much from other films that it might better be titled 'Reel Steal': not only from 'The Champ,' but from 'Rocky,' the 'Transformers' movies and even some 'Star Wars.' " (Read the full review...) 671 words, 10/07/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's utterly predictable, but director Shawn Levy hits his marks with warmth and energy, letting Jackman sell us on the emotions and the effects. And the kid's pretty good, too." (Read the full review...) 157 words, 10/06/11
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: MODERATE (cg) "It's like a Wii game, pro wrestling, 'The Iron Giant' and 'Transformers' all rolled into one..." (Read the full review...) 492 words, 10/06/11 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a stand-up-and-cheer rouser that will move even those inclined to sit down and sneer." (Read the full review...) 444 words, 10/07/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE (cg) "...a cute, occasionally sentimental father-son bonding picture... It might be cheaper, though, just to buy a Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots set." (Read the full review...) 543 words, 10/07/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "10 percent lovable underdog hokum, 23 percent sentimental family drama and 67 percent rivet-popping punch-ups." (Read the full review...) 463 words, 10/07/11 Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a little 'Kramer vs. Kramer' here, a dash of 'Transformers' there, and it's all topped with a big heap of 'Rocky.' But it's hard to argue with the results..." (Read the full review...) 616 words, 10/07/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "The effects are effective enough for the steel to seem truly real.... Jackman doing some climactic shadow-boxing is a riot..." (Read the full review...) 745 words, 10/07/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Is this movie about robots, or written by them?" (Read the full review...) 542 words, 10/07/11 Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...will make you want to do nothing except stuff your face with more.... pretty much impossible not to have fun." (Read the full review...) 529 words, 10/07/11 Soren Andersen, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "...shamelessly purloins the plucky-pugilist-punching-his-way-out-of-his-class plot line of 'Rocky.' " (Read the full review...) 388 words, 10/07/11 Mike Russell, Portland Oregonian: MODERATE (cg) "...sporadically crowd-pleasing but frequently brain-dead... It is wish-fulfillment for children who think their wayward dads can be redeemed by playing video games." (Read the full review...) 377 words, 10/07/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "...one of those so-bad-it-might-be-good movies that raises the question, 'Is this supposed to be a joke?' " (Read the full review...) 408 words, 10/07/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...sci-fi without the science, and the fiction is strictly 20th century, straight out of 'Rocky' knockoffs.... loud and dumb..." (Read the full review...) 552 words, 10/06/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a blast, an unabashed crowd-pleaser that mixes 'Rocky,' 'Transformers,' video games and father-son bonding to great, if corny, effect." (Read the full review...) 353 words, 10/07/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...'almost human.' This is about the highest praise the mechanistic, spare-parts melodrama deserves." (Read the full review...) 648 words, 10/05/11 Josh Tyler, Cinema Blend: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Any time there's a robot on screen... Unfortunately, whenever the movie ends up in a scene without a robot in frame, it's a disaster." (Read the full review...) 593 words, 10/05/11 Ann Lewinson, Boston Phoenix: WEAK (cg) "...set in a future without weight categories and, it would seem, common sense." (Read the full review...) 163 words, 10/06/11 Scott Tobias, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "It has an orphan, a dame, and a rusty old fighter nobody believed in, and damned if it doesn't play every terrible cliché completely straight." (Read the full review...) 419 words, 10/06/11 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: VERY GOOD (cg) "...goes through all the motions, properly and efficiently, and yet it's missing some core warmth.... In the end, we just give in, because that's what the movie expects of us." (Read the full review...) 823 words, 10/06/11 Nick Schager, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...if familiarity is endemic to this feel-good drama, there's nonetheless also something to be said for competent amalgamation and regurgitation of tired genre tropes." (Read the full review...) 627 words, 10/05/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's utterly predictable, but director Shawn Levy hits his marks with warmth and energy, letting Jackman sell us on the emotions and the effects. And the kid's pretty good, too." (Read the full review...) 157 words, 10/06/11 Edward Adams, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "...a sappy family-oriented plot, a phoned-in performance from Jackman, and a couple of unnecessary story stalls that could have been easily omitted..." (Read the full review...) 807 words, 10/06/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: VERY GOOD (cg) "This is a ridiculous movie. And yet, I enjoyed the hell out it. Not just because Hugh Jackman is in it. In IMAX. Though that doesn't hurt." (Read the full review...) 781 words, 10/14/11
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a well-wrought piece of entertainment, confidently paced, although its necessary subplots are little more than dutiful filler sandwiched between fight sequences." (Read the full review...) 848 words, 10/07/11 Linda Holmes, NPR: MODERATE "...although it's bad, it's not boring.... Believe it or not, it's kind of fun." (Read the full review...) 845 words, 10/06/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Perhaps 'Reel Steal' would be the better title.... this recycled reclamation of underdogs saga is neither as bad as it sounds nor quite as good as it could be..." (Read the full review...) 753 words, 10/07/11 Forrest Wickman, Slate: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a heartwarming sci-fi sports movie.... Jackman is the rare actor who can do brawn with grace, and his charisma and charm frequently save the script..." (Read the full review...) 773 words, 10/06/11
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: GOOD "The uncanny thing is just how gripping the fight scenes are; Sugar Ray Leonard served as a consultant to the motion-capture performers..." (Read the full review...) 1,017 words, 09/28/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "...feels like a mashup of spare parts from 'Transformers,' 'The Champ,' 'Star Wars' and Sylvester Stallone's series... punishingly predictable..." (Read the full review...) 942 words, 09/28/11 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Perhaps 'Reel Steal' would be the better title.... this recycled reclamation of underdogs saga is neither as bad as it sounds nor quite as good as it could be..." (Read the full review...) 753 words, 10/07/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "...the future is so half-baked and ill conceived that it calls into question why they even bothered.... it lacks that creative spark." (Read the full review...) 898 words, 09/30/11 Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a well-wrought piece of entertainment, confidently paced, although its necessary subplots are little more than dutiful filler sandwiched between fight sequences." (Read the full review...) 848 words, 10/07/11
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