Steel

You’re John Henry Irons, a disillusioned weapons designer who sees his own creations turn against the city he swore to protect, and then a rogue ex-military faction deploys your stolen tech to terrorize Gotham’s streets. But when one of your prototype suits malfunctions mid-combat, you’re forced to improvise repairs while racing against time and your own conscience. The film positions Steel not as a mythic savior but as a flawed engineer in a city built on broken promises—its grit is its genre, its stakes are street-level, and its hero learns courage isn’t in the armor, but in the moment before you pull the trigger.

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Kenneth Johnson directed Steel in 1997. See Kenneth Johnson's full filmography, where to start with Kenneth Johnson, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kenneth Johnson.

Steel was released in 1997 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 97 minutes.