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Rating: 3.6/5
Review: "Reel Steel Blu-Ray review"

It is a little slow at some points but overall, the pace is bearable. Action is not very prevalent in this robot boxing movie. Family drama seems to be more important as the story is about Charlie played by Huge Jackman dealing with his son after his ex-girlfriend passed away. Hence, it is a little slow at some points. The robot boxing action scenes are alright; they are portrayed realistically rather than over-the-top featured in the Transformers movies.

Blu-Ray special features- 3/5

There is a commentary but I didn't bother. There are two deleted scenes (17 minutes) and one of them is the added story of the butterfly clips from Charlie's ex-girlfriend. I am glad that it is deleted as I felt that it would drag the movie down. There is an useless mocumentary on Charlie's life (14 minutes). Pointless and boring to me. There is a featurette on Sugar Ray Leonard (6 minutes). It shows him teaching Huge Jackman boxing. There is two featurettes about the movie. One (14 minutes) is about setting and shooting a major scene where the two main characters find robot parts. Another (5 minutes) is about the making of the robots. Lastly, the slightly funny bloopers (2 minutes) round up the special features.

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