Average Rating: 3/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 22
Steel is a badly-acted movie that indulges not only in superhero cliches, but also the sappy TV-movie-of-the-week ones.
Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 5
Steel is a badly-acted movie that indulges not only in superhero cliches, but also the sappy TV-movie-of-the-week ones.
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Low-rent, poorly-lit superhero action is the order of the day in this film from television director Kenneth Johnson -- who makes several references to his series Alien Nation throughout the course of the movie. NBA basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal stars as John Henry Irons, a weapons designer and metallurgical genius who is developing a new sonic weapon for the military with the help of Sparks (Annabeth Gish), a computer whiz. When an accident caused by unscrupulous superior Nathaniel Burke
PG-13, 1 hr. 37 min.
Warner Home Video
All Critics (25) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (22)
Its protagonist is good-natured, wholesome, devoid of moral flaws and acutely civic-conscious. But good intentions aren't good enough, and this Shaq attack is too broad and episodic to attract anything other than the most undemanding crowd.
Steel isn't a movie to excite or even entertain. It exists to move merchandise -- specifically, Shaquille O'Neal's oversized physique and marketing machine.
The Los Angeles Lakers' center, at 7-foot-1, is appealing and breathes much needed large life into a tolerable stinker of a film.
The concept may not be bad, but there are times when the execution borders on embarassing.
Slow to gather momentum and generates little excitement or tension.
Has the distinction of being one of those movies that's so bad it actually has some solid entertainment value.
an efficient concoction with some nice special effects (there is this sound wave gun that makes the air wiggle when it's shot) and an easy-to-follow plot, about stopping illegal weapons merchants. There are plenty of stunt sequences and futuristic gimmick
What in God's name were they thinking???
It could be worse. Shaq could be rapping.
Shaq CANNOT ACT!
Better than you'd think. As kiddie action flicks go, Steel is really not bad.
This fil
You're entitled to make your own mistakes. Lord knows Shaq is.
Packs the entertainment oomph of a free throw.
It's no masterpiece, but it isn't an absolute disaster either.
Its sappiness and excruciating sentimentality weighs it down.
This movie was...Okay. It certainly wasn't good, but it wasn;t too bad either. Shaq can't act, no more than he can shoot a decent free throw, but there was still some good. But as always, we begin with the bad. The basketball puns in this movie were just PAINFUL PAINFUL PAINFUL!!! For example, there is one scene where
May 4, 2011
Super Reviewer
About the same as Kazam in terms of quality, this is basically the poor man's Batman, even circa '97. Again, it has a bizarre unintentional comedy element to it that makes it worth watching. This has too many seriously toned moments though, which makes it tough to even get through. Poor Shaquille O'Neal really wanted
May 3, 2010Super Reviewer
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