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Atom is the hero of this story, the battered, discarded training bot that Hugh Jackman's washed-up fighter, Charlie Kenton, and his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) discover embedded in the dirt while making a midnight raid on a junkyard. Controlled remotely through a function that allows him to mimic his operator's movements, Atom becomes a way for Charlie to start throwing his own punches again.

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