And another thing

Something I couldn't really get into with the format of my review for Steel Gets Real (wait, that was the tagline. The title was Real Steel. Because creativity) was that there are no stakes in the final confrontation. Now, compare this to Warrior, which is to Real Steel as Abraham Lincoln is to Howard Taft. There, you have the risk of Joel Edgerton getting hurt, you have the risk of him losing his house if he loses, and you have the whole brotherhood thing on top of all that.

Now, Real Steel. Hugh Jackman and Annoying Kid have already reconciled before the fight, so there's no emotions there. And it's a robot in the ring, a robot no one cares about. I mean, they make it look cute, but it's an iPod. A Volkswagon Bug looks cute, but no one's crying if it gets crushed in a demolition derby. And why couldn't they fix it, even if it did get broken? We don't know how much money they'll make for fighting Zeus, much less beating him--since this is an official fight, it seems they'd get money just for showing up. And they don't need the money for anything--even though they'd established Hugh Jackman owes money to bad guys, which seems like a good way to give him a personal stake, he's all paid up.

So the climax of the movie is entirely academic. It's just two robots hitting each other. Utterly emotionless filmmaking.