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Real Steel
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2187
- IMDb #1869
- Google retired #130
- Rotten Tomatoes #2681
- Metacritic #2437
- Letterboxd #2080
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3300
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2300
- Metacritic Critics #2818
- Metacritic Audience #1684
- Criticker #2251
- Douban #400
- Kinopoisk #885
- AlloCiné #1730
- Trakt #1217
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 43, highest is Google on 96. Critics average 58, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a future where human boxing is obsolete, giant robots run by remote control fight in the ring. A struggling promoter and his estranged son find a discarded-generation robot with unique defensive capabilities. They refurbish it and enter the underground fighting circuit, forming a bond as they work together to compete against the most advanced machines in the world.
Details
- Director
- Shawn Levy
- Writers
- Dan Gilroy, Jeremy Leven, John Gatins
- Based on
- a work by Richard Matheson
- Studio
- DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, 21 Laps Entertainment, Montford / Murphy Productions
- Released
- 28 September 2011
- Country
- United States, India
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $110.0M
- Box office
- $299.3M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 4 →2 wins from 4 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 2011 | Best Visual Effects | Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Danny Gordon Taylor, and Swen Gillberg | Nominee |
| People's Choice Awards 2011 | Favorite Action Movie Star | Hugh Jackman | Winner |
| Saturn Award 2011 | Best Performance by a Young Actor | Dakota Goyo | Nominee |
| Young Artist Award 2011 | Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor | Dakota Goyo | Winner |
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×| Best Visual Effects | Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Danny Gordon Taylor, and Swen Gillberg | Nominee |
| Favorite Action Movie Star | Hugh Jackman | Winner |
| Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor | Dakota Goyo | Winner |
| Best Performance by a Young Actor | Dakota Goyo | Nominee |