Max Steel

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

3.1	USER SCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 77 Ratings

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BrianMcCriticFeb 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 thingMax 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… Expand

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SquaredRenAug 20, 2017

Bad acting and boring movie. This is the type of movie that makes you ask yourself, how could a team of people wake up early every morning to work on this?. This movie does not deserve to be seen.

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Muskrat147Oct 19, 2016

An awful attempt at creating any decent action or spectacle, Max Steel could only interest fans of the original action figure, and may go down as one of the worst films of 2016.

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skeptic303Nov 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 aWhere 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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DatamariNov 11, 2016

Good god, where do I even begin?
Max Steel is the worst movie i've seen this year. It's unbelievably lazily thrown together, with choppy editing, some of the worst acting of the year, terrible writing, and an incomprehensible story thatGood god, where do I even begin?
Max Steel is the worst movie i've seen this year. It's unbelievably lazily thrown together, with choppy editing, some of the worst acting of the year, terrible writing, and an incomprehensible story that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Max himself is so unlikable, stupid, cowardly, and whiny. When he learns that he has this weird new power, and meets this weird robot, he doesn't even freak out that much. It's not: "JESUS, WHAT THE F!@# IS HAPPENING WITH ME?!" It's: "Woah... what's going on?" Max himself is so bland and unoriginal, it's hard to really emphasize with the guy. Plus, the story is slow and boring, I actually almost fell asleep. At 4 in the afternoon. That's not a good sign when you're supposed to be a cool superhero movie. Aside from terrible cinematography and awful editing, there really isn't much else to talk about. Max Steel is the most forgettable, uninteresting, unfunny, and terribly made movie i've seen in 2016 so far. Avoid at all costs.

Max Steel gets a 1/10.… Expand

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qamasterFeb 14, 2017

the film tedious. uninteresting. I could hardly watch until the thirtieth minute and that's it. I can not believe that such a boring film could shoot at the universal studio

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JeffKnoxFeb 23, 2017

SPOILERS AHEAD.

What comes to mind watching this movie is a lame attempt from the early 2000's to try out something new before superhero movies were big. But now superhero movies have been taken seriously for over a decade and there's noSPOILERS AHEAD.

What comes to mind watching this movie is a lame attempt from the early 2000's to try out something new before superhero movies were big. But now superhero movies have been taken seriously for over a decade and there's no excuse for this kind of bad writing.

It starts out interesting enough but soon delves into a snorefest. The first half of the movie I feel like Max is constantly running from something. STOP RUNNING AND DO SOMETHING INTERESTING, DAMN IT. When agents are chasing him there's nothing interesting to it. No badass fights...just Max doing what he does best, running. The first real fight he has is with a wind-like creature and like everything else, is uneventful. He does an energy blast to take it down and that's it. The fight seems very pointless and even by the end of the movie it has you scratching your head. The second fight is the last and with the main villain. This fight is also uneventful where nothing cool happens. Most of it is the villain monologuing. When a villain has to explain the movie to you in one of the last scenes it shows how lazy the writers are. Don't have a character explain it all to me at the end, show me the story throughout the movie. Make me care about the villain and his motives, don't just vomit the point during the last fight. Give them interesting dialogue instead. Some other points:
I'm not sure what tone they were going for. It seemed to have a semi-serious tone but when Steel shows up the tone changes to a corny comedy. If it was going to be a corny comedy it should have started out as such. When Steel shows up Max's mom shouts from downstairs, "dinner is ready" (or something along those lines) but she can't hear Max when he's yelling and breaking stuff because he's freaked out when Steel appears? Also, nobody in the film seems to notice Steel. When Max keeps him in his backpack, Steel will be talking and Max can hear him but nobody else seems to really notice. It's supposed to be for comedic relief but it doesn't work if it doesn't make sense. The whole movie screams of crappy lazy writing.
Why did Max get his powers when they moved to that specific place? I don't think it was explained in the movie. The movie would have been so much better if it focused less on story and just tried to be a fun action-packed beat em up superhero movie. The story was so boring, didn't make sense, so obviously lazy, and devoid of any good action. They should have given just a little bit of story (that made sense) and made Max into a badass instead. Wrecking the day of the agents, having cool boss battles, etc. Even if it ended up being mediocre it would have been a fun afternoon watch.

There's a lot more that's wrong with the movie but this is the stuff that comes to mind right now.… Expand

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AgentZJan 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, nonsensicalLiterally 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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