Max Steel

Name: Max Steel
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Family
Released: October 14, 2016
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 22

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Open Road Films (II) | Release Date: October 14, 2016 | PG-13

Summary: 16-year old Max McGrrath has just moved to a new town - and is desperately trying to fit in - when he discovers his body can generate the universe’s most powerful energy. Unbeknown to Max, a slightly rebellious and hilarious techno-organic extraterrestrial named Steel has been keeping an eye on him, hungry for his super-human energy. When16-year old Max McGrrath has just moved to a new town - and is desperately trying to fit in - when he discovers his body can generate the universe’s most powerful energy. Unbeknown to Max, a slightly rebellious and hilarious techno-organic extraterrestrial named Steel has been keeping an eye on him, hungry for his super-human energy. When they finally meet, they discover that together they form Max Steel, a superhero possessing powerful strength beyond anything in our world. These two unlikely friends soon find themselves hunted by sinister forces who want to control Max’s powers, as well as an unstoppable enemy from another galaxy.… Expand

Director: Stewart Hendler

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Family

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 92 min

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A.A. Dowd

Oct 14, 2016

From its thinly sketched teen protagonist to its deluge of hero-will-rise clichés, Max Steel evinces all of the imagination and ambition you’d expect from a movie based on a bestselling line of action figures. Read full review

Noel Murray

Oct 14, 2016

At its best, “Max Steel” shares elements with “Smallville” and “Teen Wolf,” using the supernatural as a metaphor for awkward adolescence. At its worst, it’s more like “Transformers” — an extended toy commercial, noisy and forgettable. Read full review

Sam Fragoso

Oct 14, 2016

If the past is any indication, Hendler, Winchell, Bello and everyone else involved have the capacity to create interesting, original, and engaged art. Max Steel is none of those things. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Oct 14, 2016

As the stuntmen duke it out and we see close-ups of the two actors making silly faces, it's hard not imagine a Mystery Science Theater 3000 feature in the making. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Oct 14, 2016

[A] drearily lame time-waster. Read full review

Robert Yaniz Jr.

Oct 17, 2016

Max Steel may promise a change of pace from all the Marvel and DC adaptations, but it’s subpar to both those shared universes on every level, telling an origin story that brings little new to the table and a cast that deserves far better. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Christy Lemire

Oct 14, 2016

A movie based on a toy should be a whole lot more fun than this. Read full review

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bernool

Nov 19, 2022

Spider-Man: Far From Home is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and the 23rd film in the MarvelSpider-Man: Far From Home is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and the 23rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Jon Watts, written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Zendaya, Cobie Smulders, Jon Favreau, J. B. Smoove, Jacob Batalon, Martin Starr, Marisa Tomei, and Jake Gyllenhaal. In the film, Parker is recruited by Nick Fury (Jackson) and Mysterio (Gyllenhaal) to face the Elementals while he is on a school trip to Europe.

Discussions for a sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming began by October 2016, and the project was confirmed later that year. Holland, Watts, and the writers were all set to return by the end of 2017. In 2018, Jackson and Gyllenhaal joined the cast as Fury and Mysterio, respectively. Holland revealed the sequel's title ahead of filming, which began that July and took place in England, the Czech Republic, Italy, and the New York metropolitan area. Production wrapped in October 2018. The marketing campaign is one of the most expensive for a film ever and attempted to avoid revealing spoilers for Avengers: Endgame prior to its April 2019 release.

Spider-Man: Far From Home premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre on June 26, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 2, as the last film in Phase Three of the MCU. The film received positive reviews with praise for its humor, action sequences, visuals, and the performances of Holland and Gyllenhaal. It grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the first Spider-Man film to pass the billion-dollar mark, the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2019, and became Sony Pictures' highest-grossing film and the 24th-highest-grossing film of all time. A sequel, Spider-Man: No Way Home, was released in December 2021.… Expand

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Elizabeht

Jan 29, 2018

I liked the movie is interesting and very exciting and different from the usual I always see the same Marvel formula in superhero movies, and I hope they get a sequel, I know they can improve.

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Carlosluissanch

Jan 27, 2018

It's a pretty acceptable movie, and I think they're stupid that it's so hated without meaning.

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MinecraftF

Mar 26, 2017

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BrianMcCritic

Feb 4, 2017

Max Steel is hard to define. It's just there on screen. What happens in this supposed film is just a giant sloppy mess. Andy Garcia and Maria Bello must have really got payed. Especially Garcia who is just sleep walking through this thing until that amazing fight scene at the end of course. F

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AgentZ

Jan 11, 2019

Literally the worst superhero movie ever. This is on my list of the top 10 worst movies I have ever seen. Almost no action in it. Horrible acting from the lead actor (Ben Winchell) and the lead actress (Ana Villafañe). Brainless, nonsensical plot. The voice acting for Steel was horrible. TheLiterally the worst superhero movie ever. This is on my list of the top 10 worst movies I have ever seen. Almost no action in it. Horrible acting from the lead actor (Ben Winchell) and the lead actress (Ana Villafañe). Brainless, nonsensical plot. The voice acting for Steel was horrible. The editing is horrible. The cinematography is horrible. The pacing is atrocious. The main character Max McGrath (Ben Winchell) is completely boring, poorly acted, and has no depth and the rest of the characters have no depth either. Max's crush/girlfriend, Sophia Martinez (Ana Villafañe) didn't really have a purpose in the story and didn't even feel like a character. Steel was very annoying and Josh Brener (voice actor of Steel) did a **** job at voice acting. The villain twist was so painfully predictable from the start. This movie was very extremely boring from start to finish. Worst movie of 2016.… Expand

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skeptic303

Nov 3, 2016

Where do I even begin right now with this movie? Perhaps I should start with the mindset of the people on set. Word is that they wanted this movie to be PG, but they lost the appeal. Perhaps if they cut out the image of someone pulling out a piece of glass from their leg, maybe this movieWhere do I even begin right now with this movie? Perhaps I should start with the mindset of the people on set. Word is that they wanted this movie to be PG, but they lost the appeal. Perhaps if they cut out the image of someone pulling out a piece of glass from their leg, maybe this movie would have been PG-rated. While I painfully go through this review, keep in mind that these are the people we're dealing with. Their thought process appears to be topsy-turvy.
Max Steel is the thankfully ill-fated adaptation of a line of action figure toys brought to us by Mattel, and if I had to sum up the plot, I would point to Transformers (2007), saying that the two movie have a rather similar plot (not the same, but somewhat similar). Good grief, this movie is cinematic cyanide through and through.
The plotline is continually stupid, followed by the cinematography, which is even worse (especially during one particular scene where the camera couldn't stop cutting from one place to another every 10 or so seconds). The characters are not only bland, but inert and completely weak. Yet, the movie expects me to like a romance between two characters that proves to be even more bland, formulaic, and stupid. These issues are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the problems with this sci-fi time-waster. Even a 12 minute video rant won't be enough for me to summarize this atrocity that deliberately pursued the Golden Raspberry Awards with a seal of disavowal.… Expand

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