They Call Me Jeeg Robot (2015) on Netflix
Enzo Ceccotti, a thief in a Rome slum, gains superhuman strength after contact with radioactive waste in the Tiber. Alessia, who watches the Steel Jeeg anime, takes him for its hero.
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- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb7.0/1017,737 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes82%
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Plot summary
The film is a strange and anti-hero transposition of a very popular animated manga cartoon in the 80's called Steel Jeeg. Here, a young outlaw (Enzo) is somehow affected by radioactive waste in the Tiber waters in Rome. He subsequently finds out he has gained super powers and interprets them as a reward for never having managed to enter the criminal world that counts. The inside joke reveals itself when Enzo meets Alessia, who believes the charming hero is the personification of the hero in the cartoon she used to watch.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about They Call Me Jeeg Robot (2015)
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- They Call Me Jeeg was nominated for seventeen David di Donatello awards and won eight, and it was one of seven films shortlisted as Italy's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, where Fuocoammare was chosen instead.
