Review of Steel

Steel (1997)
Good as a comic, bad as a film
6 June 2000
Where do I begin? I mean I enjoy the character of Steel myself, but this rendition of him is just plain bad. I mean Shaq is a good as a basketballer but needs more practice as an actor. The supporting cast did nothing more than smirk and make wisecracks now and then. What happened to the supporting cast Steel had in his comic book? I mean they were interesting enough, at least more interesting than the characters in this farce.What about John Henry himself? What happened to the dark background he had in the comic? I mean there was enough plot for a movie there. John Henry's motivation for putting on the armor is almost none exsistent, execpt for the fact that the armor is there only to stop his weapons from being used wrongly. What??? John Henry is supposed to also have a mad on against gangs. What about that? All we see of John henry's character in this movie is a wisecracking smirking mettalurgist(he's even missing his background in engineering, judging from the fact he needs help to design the armor) What about the armor?. I personally was looking forward to seeing Steel's armour in action on the big screen, but then they replaced it with this more "realistic" armor. What??? I mean, Steel's armour was unrealistic. So? That's what made the character so interesting. With the exception of Blade and the Punisher,this movie is added to the list of bad movies about good comic book characters. When will it end? I give this movie a 2/10(2 being for the music and F/X)
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