Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie

Hugh Jackman in the sci-fi title, but isn’t Wolverine… This time in the role of an arrogant guy constantly in money trouble, indebted to whole world.

How arrogant he is, he shows us at the very beginning of the film, when he gets news of a deceased ex-girlfriend from a relationship 11 years ago.

… and with whom he has as son, at the same age of 11. He gave up him at birth, and has no intention of seeing him now. But as the law dictates, he must appear in court to enter a plea of custody.

He quickly finds a benefit in all this – practically ‘selling’ his son for $100,000 to the boy’s aunt in a secret deal with her very wealthy husband. Aunt gets the boy she loves, Charlie gets a lot of money, her husband makes his beloved happy : everybody satisfied ?

To Charlie, kid wich he didn’t even wanted is a heavy load. And the kid also isn’t too thrilled for spending time with a stranger, while his future foster parents are on holiday in Italy.

But it turns out they have common ground and interest – robot fights ! That fact introduces a new dimension to the story, and puts top-notch sci-fi elements in a whole different plan.

Doomed to each other, they’re getting to know eachother. And as the days passing by they are getting closer too. The kid ‘wakes up’ the human thing and fatherhood in Charlie who’s slowly becoming aware of the child’s presence.

In fact, it’s fair to say that young and very talented D.Goyo stole Jackman’s lead role. With very striking performance, at the age of 10 he left a huge mark on his career.

I’d even dare compare him to N.Portman at ‘Leon The Profesional’, where Natalie was even 1-2 years older. Certainly a serious competitor to the best junior role in blockbusters.

Although (always glad to be seen) Hugh did a great job in this slightly average title, my opinion is that whole story would be far less interesting if this irresponsible father was performed by another actor.

Interesting two hours of futuristic boxing matches, with one difference – in this version are human-operated robots. Very popular fights are used to entertain the wide masses, while to our protagonists have served to become friends and give family-drama meaning to this casual sci-fi action.