This is set in 2020, a time when human boxers have been replaced by huge
remote-controlled robots (It's 2021 now, and as far as I can tell, boxers are still human, not robots. I guess they didn't look ahead far enough into the future. 😊) There's a scene when Charlie
(Hugh Jackman), a struggling former boxer, gets to experience the thrill
of fighting in the ring again, via Atom, a tough sparring robot that mirrors
human movement, rescued from a junkyard by his estranged son, Max (Dakota Goyo). That
scene alone, makes the movie for me. I felt HUGELY rewarded for having
stayed with the story, up until that point.
