Originally Posted by
slikrapid
i thought it was downright awful, jackman was uninspired, the kid was annoying beyond belief (not to mention unbelievable), the girl was wasted as an under-scripted sidekick, the robots & their moves were lame (cheap boxing most of the time, the rest not nearly as interesting as it should have been), the story & characters were ghastly (selling a child, parental negligence, characters without personal integrity, basically scum of the society), the emotional trickery was pathetic (fake character bonding & personal tribulations, multiple zoom-ins trying to incite excitement as the fighting choreography just wasn't sufficient), all in all, a miserable display of (intentional) scriptwriting incompetence and cheap solutions to mask the obvious lack of anything noteworthy within the movie