Courtesy of the British TV channel Film4, on 21 January 2021 I watched the live-action super-hero movie Max Steel (as opposed to the animated TV series and movie featuring this same character), which was directed by Stewart Hendler, released in 2016, and based upon the eponymous action figure toy line produced by Mattel.
It's not often that a movie receives a rating of 0% on the Rotten Tomatoes website. Consequently, I was expecting a total disaster, but was pleasantly surprised – although in view of the fact that I almost invariably love the movies that critics hate, I suppose that I really shouldn't have been.
Max Steel is all about a teenager named Max McGrath (played by Ben Winchell) who begins emitting powerful, unstable tachyonic energy (no, me neither), but he is stabilised by a small yet exceedingly garrulous flying machine-like alien named Steel, who very fortuitously lives exclusively upon tachyonic energy (as you do). He also wants to bond with Max and protect him, which he does, creating during their bonding sessions the armour-clad dual entity Max Steel – so that's where the movie's title comes from. Never say that this blog isn't educational!
Moreover, it's just as well that Steel has turned up, because it now turns out that Max is being hunted down by immensely powerful, tornado-engendering aliens called ultralinks, but which just so happen to look exactly like Steel... Plus Max's father Jim, who died in mysterious circumstances when Max was just a baby, is directly linked to all of the mysteries now threatening to encompass him.
Who can Max turn to for help? Neither his mother nor his girlfriend – they just wouldn't undrstand...or would they? How about Dr Miles Edwards (played by Andy Garcia), his father's friend and co-worker? Hmmm….
True, Max Steel is hardly Avatar, nor indeed Gone With The Wind or Citizen Kane, but neither does it deserve the immense amount of opprobrium that has been heaped upon it. On the contrary, Max Steel passed 90 minutes or so very enjoyably for me, which is what I look for in a film (and which in turn is why I have since purchased it on DVD). So call me easily pleased, I can take it!
And if you're interested in finding out for yourself what Max Steel is like, please click here to view an official trailer for it on YouTube. You can thank me later.
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