Steel (1997 film)

Steel is a 1997 American superhero action film based on the DC Comics character John Henry Irons. The film stars Shaquille ONeal as Irons and his alterego Steel, Annabeth Gish as his wheelchairusing partner Susan Sparks, and Judd Nelson as their rival Nathaniel Burke. The plot centers on an accident caused by Burke which leaves Sparks paralyzed. The accident results in Irons quitting his job. Burke begins massproducing weapons and selling them to criminals. In order to stop Burke, Irons and Sparks create a suit of armor that leads Irons to become the superhero Steel.

John Henry Irons Shaquille ONeal is a weapons designer who invents hightech laser guns, protective armor, and sonic sound cannons for the United States military. One soldier, Nathaniel Burke Judd Nelson, decides to show just what Irons weapons can do and sets one of Irons sonic cannons at the highest power setting, firing the device at an abandoned building. However, the weapon backfires and destroys the building the team is situated in. Irons partner, Susan Sparky Sparks Annabeth Gish, is crushed by a large slab of concrete in the ensuing chaos. In court, Irons reveals Burkes role in the incident and Burke is dismissed from the military. Because his weapons resulted in Sparks becoming a paraplegic, Irons resigns in disgust. Meanwhile, Burke hatches a plot to sell Irons weapons to criminal gangs, recruiting a video arcade manager to help him carry out this deed.Irons witnesses a bank robbery organized by gang members wielding Burkes modified guns they escape before he can interrogate them on where they obtained the weapons. The gang does not tell Irons anything when confronted directly in their hideout. Irons visits Sparks in a veterans hospital and takes her to his own assembled laboratory, where he hopes he and Sparks can create weapons needed to combat the criminals. With the help of Uncle Joe Richard Roundtree, they forge a suit of armor and the weaponry necessary for Irons to carry out his war on crime and become the vigilante Steel. However, during his crusade against crime, Irons is pursued by the cops and is forced to return to his lair. The next night, the robbers arrange to rob another bank. Irons, as Steel, tries to stop them, but is hindered by the robbers weapons. When Irons returns to his grandmothers Irma P. Hall house, he is arrested. ........

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