Hugh Jackman stars as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up boxer in the near future who, becasue his sport has been taken over by 8-foot steel robots, now lives in a world where he doesn't fit in. with no fights and no prospects, Charlie is forced to hustle as a small-time robot fight promoter. he earns just enough money to survive by piecing together low-end "bots" and travelling from one seamy underground boxing venue to the next for whatever prize fight he can wrangle for his automatons. Just when things can't become any more desperate and complicated, his estranged, tough beyond his years son max (Dakota goyo) suddenly and unwillingly comes back into his life.
The alienated duo reluctantly team up to rebuild and train a scrap heap robot and turn it to a boxing cntender. As stakes in the brutal, no holds barred fighting arenas are raised, against all odds Charlie gets one last shot at a comeback.
source: manila bulletin
