Curious it is, then, that the chief complaint leveled against Michael Bay's robot films - that they're overstuffed and poorly written - is just the same issue that holds Pacific Rim back from being anything approaching a classic.
PACIFIC RIM MOVIE SCENES MOVIE
There's a certain irony to the fact that, though to more casual viewers Pacific Rim might have been marketed as just another Transformers movie (albeit with Godzilla thrown in for good measure), the expectation for many was that Guillermo del Toro's presence would ensure a wealth of substance attached to all that style. Led by sturdy military leader Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), the fate of humanity might just rest in a washed-up former Jaeger pilot, Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam), and his co-pilot, Mako (Rinko Kikuchi), who has a very personal score to settle with the kaiju. The world's countries put their differences aside, pooling their resources to build giant robots called Jaegers, which are scarcely capable of taking the beasts down.
A portal has opened up in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, allowing giant Lovecraftian monsters called kaiju to rise up and attack Earth.
A love letter to both the kaiju and mecha movies most closely associated with Japan, the director's highly-anticipated monster grudge match is without question a slickly efficient, visually stunning product, though the woefully malnourished script fails to leave much of a lasting impression.
Rating: 3.5 In terms of sheer wish fulfillment, perhaps no movie this year is as committed to appeasing our inner 10-year-olds as Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim.
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