a5c7b9f00b The adventures of teenager Max McGrath and his alien companion, Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the turbo-charged superhero Max Steel. When teenage Max McGrath discovers his body can generate the universe&#39;s most powerful energy, he must bond with the only being able to contain it - a mysterious techno-organic extraterrestrial named Steel. Unitedthe superhero Max Steel, the two friends must combat an alien menace and unlock the secrets of their past. This is another action movie that spins of without giving you answers to the usual &quot;why&#39;s&quot;. It sets a tone, and builds up a couple of relations between characters.<br/><br/>But once the action starts happening everything else is just washed away. I&#39;m given a weird CGI movie without a good story and the few good pieces that it had they never even cared enough about to include.<br/><br/>Through the second half of the movie my questions were not &quot;what will happen&quot;, or &quot;how will it end&quot;. The questions in my head was &quot;will they have the decency to tell me what happen with the relations they built or will they just end it after these prolonged action sequences&quot;.<br/><br/>tl;rd<br/><br/>Half-baked action movie without a bang and without connecting with the viewer. Although &quot;Max Steel&quot; is officially based on a toy line put out by Mattel (a fact I&#39;m sure discouraged a lot of people from seeing the movie), it actually has a strong vibe of the 1997 family movie &quot;Star Kid&quot;. That movie was kind of fun, but &quot;Max Steel&quot; is anything but. <br/><br/>What went wrong? Well, most of the problems can be found in the screenplay written by Christopher L. Yost. For starters, there almost seems to be an intent to keep the audience mystified and confused from start to finish. A little mystery in a movie like this is okay, but right from the beginning the movie keeps the audience in the dark about a LOT of plot points. While the core of the mystery is (sort of) eventually explained, at the end there are still a lot of unanswered questions. <br/><br/>Why Max doesn&#39;t just ASK some key characters some good questions much earlier doesn&#39;t make sense, anda result the character comes acrossquite unbelievable. For that matter, none of the other characters are believablewell. I could go on for some time about this, but it would be redundant. Though I will add that the fact that the character of Steel is not only unbelievable, but comes acrossextremely annoying, coming acrossa slightly more coherent stoner.<br/><br/>Those simply looking for stuff like eye candy and action will probably be let down. I admit the entire package (including the special effects) don&#39;t look too bad for a movie with a somewhat low budget, but there are no really exceptional visuals. Also, there is not only little action, but director Stewart Hendler pretty much saps all the potential excitement these action scenes could have had.<br/><br/>If Open Road Films releases more bombs like this, they won&#39;t be open for too much longer. At its best, “Max Steel” shares elements with “Smallville” and “Teen Wolf,” using the supernaturala metaphor for awkward adolescence. At its worst, it’s more like “Transformers” — an extended toy commercial, noisy and forgettable.
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