Pacific Rim Review. Giant monsters come to earth
from another dimension and terrorize the planet. Humans build giant
robots to fight them.
Director Guillermo del Toro
Cast
Charlie Hunnam - Raleigh Becket
Ron Perlman - Hannibal Chau
Idris Elba - Stacker Pentecost
Rinko Kikuchi - Mako Mori
Robert Maillet - Aleksis Kaidanovsky
Clifton Collins Jr. - Tendo Choi
Charlie Day - Dr. Newton Geiszler
Burn Gorman - Dr. Hermann Gottlieb Warner Bros - Running time 131 minutes
Giant aliens from another dimension open up portals deep within the pacific ocean and begin to cause havoc upon the earth.
After several years the monsters known as the Kaiju have killed millions of people and they have consumed much of earths natural resources. The humans build giant robots which are called Jaegers to battle the giant alien monsters.
Pacific rim was my most anticipated movie of the year, not only did the trailer look amazing, it also has a good director "Guillermo del Toro" he has been responsible for some of my favourite movies in recent years, movies such as Pan's labyrinth and Hellboy 2. I am glad to say that Pacific Rim didn't disappoint me.
Visually Pacific Rim is fantastic, both the Jeagars and Kaiju look impressive, not just the special effects but the design of these monsters commanded attention. The impressive visuals helped to draw me into the whole experience, I became completely immersed is this world of science fiction.
They have tried to fit a lot of story into just one movie, so at times it feels a little rushed, however it still does a decent job of telling us everything that we need to know to follow the story. Apart from the story feeling rushed at times, the pacing overall is good, combine that with solid acting, good dialog and storytelling with amazing visuals and impressive action scenes and this was a very immersive experience.
The fight scenes look fantastic, the fights are great just by themselves, plus the fight locations look truly impressive and we get to see lots of Jeagar and Kaiju action. It maybe silly, evening boarding on ridiculous at times but that's to be expected from a movie about giant robots fighting giant Godzilla sized monsters.
On the surface Pacific Rim looks like just another over the top summer special effects extravaganzas much like Battleship and the last few Transformers movies, even sharing the same type of humour. However Pacific Rim is a much more complete movie which deserves success and I hope they make a sequel.
8 out of 10
