Justice. Safe roads. Payback. Metallurgist John Henry Irons (O'Neal) vows to maintain them all when a renegade military refuse (Judd Nelson) puts new super weapons in hands. Helped by an electronics wiz (Annabeth Gish) and an imaginative scrap metal worker (Richard Roundtree),'' Irons becomes more Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a electrohammer and riding a motorcycle, he is available to wage warfare. . .if he can correct the glitches in his untested gear. "You all be cool today," the good guy hero informs two crime victims he rescues. There'll be a great deal of thrillin' until Steel chillin can be started by himself.'