Max Steel
The adventures of teenager Max McGrath and alien companion Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the turbo-charged superhero Max Steel.
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- Cast:
- Ben Winchell , Josh Brener , Ana Villafañe , Andy García , Maria Bello , Billy Slaughter , Mike Doyle
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Just what I expected
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Really time waste bad copy of iron man dont waste your time for this film
I'm baffled by some reviewers claiming that the ratings would be unfair, because they'd ignore the movie's limited budget.Let's see what Max Steel has to offer: Bad acting (Andy Garcia, wtf happened to you?). Bad script ("I have a brilliant plan to beat the villain! It's exactly the same someone else had previously! The villain will never see it coming!"). Dumb characters, who can't think straight forward for even a second. Annoying sidekick(s) with incredibly bad humor. At least I understand why the main character avoids listening to them. All fighting scenes are a f***ing joke. Max Steele is pure trash and that's all.
I thought that the movie was really good in a way. It was a very good adventurous movie that kept me on my feet and wondering what was going to happen in the end. The acting was good, the robot was really cute and kinda funny at certain points. I, overall, liked it. I know others would think that it was pointless but I, on the other hand, thought it was well told.
Although "Max Steel" is officially based on a toy line put out by Mattel (a fact I'm sure discouraged a lot of people from seeing the movie), it actually has a strong vibe of the 1997 family movie "Star Kid". That movie was kind of fun, but "Max Steel" is anything but. What went wrong? Well, most of the problems can be found in the screenplay written by Christopher L. Yost. For starters, there almost seems to be an intent to keep the audience mystified and confused from start to finish. A little mystery in a movie like this is okay, but right from the beginning the movie keeps the audience in the dark about a LOT of plot points. While the core of the mystery is (sort of) eventually explained, at the end there are still a lot of unanswered questions. Why Max doesn't just ASK some key characters some good questions much earlier doesn't make sense, and as a result the character comes across as quite unbelievable. For that matter, none of the other characters are believable as well. I could go on for some time about this, but it would be redundant. Though I will add that the fact that the character of Steel is not only unbelievable, but comes across as extremely annoying, coming across as a slightly more coherent stoner.Those simply looking for stuff like eye candy and action will probably be let down. I admit the entire package (including the special effects) don't look too bad for a movie with a somewhat low budget, but there are no really exceptional visuals. Also, there is not only little action, but director Stewart Hendler pretty much saps all the potential excitement these action scenes could have had.If Open Road Films releases more bombs like this, they won't be open for too much longer.