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Whistle Stopper - Steel (1997)
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Irma P. Hall
Directed By: Kenneth Johnson
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790733265
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0790733269
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1998-05-19
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1997-08-15
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Summary: Very Under Rated Movie
Comment: This was a solid movie. Too much garbage comes out today that is "critically acclaimed." With $16 million they did a nice job with the sets, filming of action sequences, and special effects to make this movie far more than watchable. A little chessey but very entertaining. There are solid moral lessons that are taught here that the youth of today need to see, understand, and embrace. Shaq's acting, contrary to popular opinion, is pretty good. Very easy to root for STEEL. A man's man. Kids, especially black kids, need to see strong black men take control of thier lives and make a positive and lasting impact on their families and their communities. Most of the people who reviewed this movie here on Amazon.com proabably just don't care about that. Buy it or rent it. It's nice to own a movie that has has a true Good Guy/HERO who whips the bad guys in the end.
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Summary: Someone....kill me now
Comment: What is this.... I'd rather watch a penny collect rust than watch this again. OMGAWD. Shaq should be sent to Guantanamo Bay for this. I think this movie is an indication of the forthcoming end of time............
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Summary: The songs are probably the best thing about this film.
Comment: I've not seen the film, but I dig the hip hop and soul soundtrack. I suggest for others to seperate the songs from the film and write accurate reviews about this product.
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Summary: Unspeakably awful.
Comment: First of all, I apologise for reviewing a... gnnn, can't bring myself to even write it but.. must... a VHS version of this film. Ughh. Video - what WERE we thinking? But I have to - because Steel has never been released on DVD (I collect comic book movies and TV shows on DVD, so I had to buy a copy of this on DVD). And you know what? I would bet my entire Spider-Man collection that it'll never see the light on DVD either. Whoever owns the rights to this is probably keeping it quiet through sheer embarrassment.
Steel, then. Due to my collecting, I have seen some of the worst movies ever made - Batman and Robin. Popeye. Spawn. And now this, easily one of the very worst films of all time. Based on the DC comics character, the only mention of Superman (which this character originates from - Man Of Steel, geddit?) is from the tattoo on Shaquille O Neals arm. Which he already had in the first place.
It's never actually explained WHY Shaq makes an outfit in the first place. I mean, if he wanted to tackle crime he could have done it just fine on his own. He was a seven foot mammoth guy, brave, able to smash phone boxes and windows just by touching them, so why he felt the need to design a costume that made him look like he was dressing up as Robocop for Halloween is anyone's guess.
Ah yes - the costume. Let's talk about that for a minute. I can buy a lot of things in comic book movies (like the comics themselves, they need a certain degree of plausibility tolerance). A guy wants to dress up for no real reason to fight crime? Fair enough. Guy wants to dress in solid steel? (How does he move around?) Uh.. OK, usual level of DC rubbish I suppose. But the believability went right out the window when I saw the outfit. It might as well just have "PLASTIC" stamped all over it. It's PATHETIC. Quite easily the worst superhero costume of all time.
Special mention must go to Shaq's sidekick, Uncle Joe (there are black people in this film, you see. So we need the cackling, wisecracking uncle, the "mmmmm-hmmmmm!" aunt who fusses and cooks, the "don't be playa hatin'" jive talking nephew.. all your black stereotypes in one horrendous movie). Anyway, Uncle Joe is played by Richard Rowndtree, who played Shaft. Just in case you didn't know that, for some reason Uncle Joe is looking at Steels hammer and says "I particularly like the shaft" followed by a knowing silence. I think we're supposed to laugh, but it just sounds like old Uncle Joe was coming on to our hero.
Subtle humour isn't exactly this films strong point. Throughout the movie, there are numerous attempts from Steel to throw certain things into or through other things - and always misses. Ha ha ha ha, isn't that really funny, that a professional basketball player would be so bad at things like that? Stop me laughing by killing me.
There are absolutely no redeemable features in this movie. With a lot of comic book films, no matter how bad they are, I can always find one or two things to appreciate. With Man-Thing, they mentioned the Nexus Of Realities and Man-Thing himself looks pretty good. Supergirl - had at least a sense of continuity with the Superman films and, well, she looked pretty good in her costume too. With Steel? Nothing. Plot wrong, characters wrong, script TERRIBLE, acting atrocious, costume laughable.. Just another 7 foot nail in the comic book movie coffin.
I think I'll leave you with some sage advice from the movie, and an example of the writing quality that is present throughout.
"Eat the hotdog. Don't be one."
There's nothing I can say to top that.
The_Curmudgeon_Hates_You@yahoo.co.uk
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Summary: Ugh...
Comment: I just finished watching this abysmal excuse for a movie on TV with my kid. All I can say is that I enjoy my kid's company, so the 2-plus hours spent on "Steel" was not a complete waste of time, but no thanks to this turkey.
Folks, we all know Shaq's acting is on a par with his free-throw shooting, so expectations are pretty low going into a movie like this. In fact, low expectations account for my giving two stars instead of one --- this actually could have been worse.
However, while Shaq's acting is what we might expect, the movie as a whole displays a sloppiness in overall production that makes what could have been a mediocre effort a downright bad one. It looks more like a made-for-TV effort than a theatrical release --- bad editing, mediocre sound, amateurish camera angles --- the production values are bargain basement. Actually, I have seen After School Specials that were more professionally executed than this.
Thank God I did not have to waste money on this. Nobody should be monetarily rewarded for this badly-produced piece of junk.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Shaquille O'Neal plays a relatively recent DC Comics hero named Steel, an Army weapons engineer who dons a steel suit and does battle with various bad buys, including a weapons dealer (Judd Nelson) whose market is criminals. Sooner or later, somebody had to give Shaq the opportunity to finally prove he doesn't belong in movies, and this silly 1997 action movie--in which O'Neal could not possibly look more wooden--does the trick. --Tom Keogh
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