Steel (1997) on Netflix
PG-1319971h 37mActionCrimeSci-Fi
Weapons designer John Henry Irons quits the military after a soldier misuses a sonic cannon and leaves his partner Susan Sparks paralyzed. He builds armor to fight the gangs carrying his guns.
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- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb3.0/1016,001 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes12%
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Plot summary
John Henry Irons designs laser guns, protective armor and sonic cannons for the American military. During a demonstration of the weapons, the soldier Nathaniel Burke sets a sonic cannon to its highest power and fires at an empty building; the blast tears through the structure housing the team, and Irons' partner Susan Sparks is crushed under a concrete slab. Irons tells a court what Burke did, and Burke loses his place in the service. Sickened that his own work hurt Sparks, Irons resigns. Burke then works at selling the weapons to gangs. After Irons sees a bank robbery carried out with guns of his design, he and Sparks assemble armor and weaponry at the junkyard of his Uncle Joe, and Irons goes after the criminals.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Steel (1997)
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- Wesley Snipes was Kenneth Johnson's first choice for the lead. Jones and Salzman had approached Shaquille O'Neal and his agent Leonard Armato about a Hardware adaptation, but the basketballer said he related more to Steel; Johnson later admitted Shaq was a bad choice.
- O'Neal was committed to the 1996 Summer Olympics and Lakers training camp in Hawaii, leaving Johnson five weeks to film all his scenes; he had one read-through before the Olympics and returned with all his lines memorized.
- To help with the urban dialogue, Johnson took a copy of the script to South Central Los Angeles and spent a day with a group of kids to make sure the characters' language was believable.
