Pacific Rim (2013)
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Critics Consensus: It may sport more style than substance, but Pacific Rim is a solid modern creature feature bolstered by fantastical imagery and an irresistible sense of fun.
Critics Consensus: It may sport more style than substance, but Pacific Rim is a solid modern creature feature bolstered by fantastical imagery and an irresistible sense of fun.
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When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces … More- Rating:
- PG-13 (for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout, and brief language)
- Genre:
- Action & Adventure , Horror , Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Directed By:
- Guillermo del Toro
- Written By:
- Travis Beacham
- In Theaters:
- Jul 12, 2013 Wide
- On DVD:
- Oct 15, 2013
- US Box Office:
- $101.8M
Cast
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Charlie Hunnam
as Raleigh Becket -
Idris Elba
as Stacker Pentecost -
Rinko Kikuchi
as Mako Mori -
Diego Klattenhoff
as Yancy Becket -
Charlie Day
as Dr. Newton Geiszler -
Burn Gorman
as Gottlieb
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Critic Reviews for Pacific Rim
All Critics (253) | Top Critics (47) | Fresh (181) | Rotten (72) | DVD (2)
Del Toro is a dreamer. He's a visionary. If you give him a pile of money to make enormous robots fight enormous monsters at the end of civilization, he will work to make Pacific Rim a movie that makes you feel all the enormousness.
It is possible to applaud Pacific Rim for the efficacy of its business model while deploring the tale that has been engendered -- long, loud, dark, and very wet. You might as well watch the birth of an elephant.
A ridiculously entertaining (and often just plain ridiculous) monster-robot movie that plays like that "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots" game from the 1960s.
Its visual achievements notwithstanding, Pacific Rim's greatest breakthrough may be that it's the first Hollywood blockbuster to sport a title less descriptive of its plot than of its intended market.
It's as if Del Toro neuro-linked with a robot and then couldn't figure out how to work the controls -- and so watched impotently as the machine made the major creative decisions.
All the unpredictability of professional wrestling plus the magic of synchronized Stairmasters -- that's what I got out of the vaunted spectacle of Pacific Rim.
Pacific Rim is a cut above the standard-gauge heavy-metal blockbuster, with less cynicism, more soul, a wealth of visual detail and a desperate pulse of intelligence beneath the mayhem. But it's still profoundly silly.
There's so much onscreen, so much suggested but not explored or explained, almost like jam-packed Harvey Kurtzman panels from classic MAD magazines, detailed by the likes of a Romanek or Tarsem.
The action is spectacular, but the thinly characterised humans who pilot the robots in mind-synched pairs inevitably get dwarfed. And without vivid heroes to root for, after a while the humungous robot-monster smackdowns lose their impact,
Pacific Rim is a special-effects behemoth, a toy franchise with a deafeningly loud movie attached -- Transformers with an A-level.
Michael Bay has made three Transformers movies, and he hasn't done one yet that was as much fun as this.
Pacific Rim is, as you might expect, a visual extravaganza brimming with lush colors, state-of-the-art CGI effects and the promised robots on monsters hard-core fights to the death.
In essence, Pacific Rim features a series of Godzilla monsters battle an ever dwindling number of Transformers, layered over the plot from Independence Day, only dumber.
From a pure fan-boy perspective, this film packs in a great deal of energy without feeling like a stale Michael Bay film. Guillermo del Toro mixes playful energy with outstanding effects.
Bro, it comes down to this: if you can't turn the brain meat off and sit back and enjoy Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi and Idris Elba beating the crap out of some monsters then, dude, you're the monster.
Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim is awesome, scary, weird, exciting, exuberant, and ridiculous -- basically everything you want from a sci-fi action movie.
Feels like it's always struggling to break through the screen-if only to grab you by the scruff of the neck and drag you in.
There was a time when I would have considered Pacific Rim the greatest movie ever made. But then I turned 12.
Pacific Rim is the perfect example of how to make an effective summer blockbuster. It has heart, brains and enough action and explosions to shock and awe just about anyone.
A blockbuster of substance and depth...
The plot is well designed considering how silly the movie really is. Credit that to Guillermo Del Toro. He obviously put a lot of though into the picture, but it's still a basic action film, and the selling point is giant robots battling giant monsters.
If it sounds kinda fun, please know it is, with those aforementioned scientists (TV faces Charlie Day and Burn Gorman) creating some laughs with their goofy nature of oneupsmanship.
...a punishing ordeal that just might mark the nadir of the modern big-budget blockbuster...
Impossível deixarmos a sala de projeção sem uma sensação clara de caloroso retorno à infância.
Fueled by an ambition that channels enthusiasm for characters and narrative details above the high-octane action, and driven by visual effects that are a compliment to those traits rather than a distraction.
Audience Reviews for Pacific Rim
In the wrong hands, ''Pacific Rim'' would've been a massive misfire. However, with visionary Guillermo del Toro at the helm, the result proves to be a satisfying blockbuster with great action, high stakes and likeable characters.
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It is strange that despite the fact that there was a lot going on, I felt terribly bored. I was constantly checking my time and was more entertained by my popcorn than anything else. Pacific Rim offers nothing in the line of story and character. It is also upsetting that it tries to get dramatic when it should've stayed clear from that department. All of the battle scenes were in a dark and rainy environment, making them difficult to watch. This was a predictable mess of a movie, and I am astounded to see it get such positive ratings. Had Michael Bay's name been on the movie instead of del Toro's I am almost certain this would've flopped.
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Don't know why, but neither the story nor the execution appealed to me. Maybe because I'd formed an opinion about it before going for it. Hardly worked as a time-pass. To be fair enough, 1/5.
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Guillermo del Toro achieves just what he set out to in Pacific Rim. It is indeed the ultimate giant monster movie. It's flash, has all the effects and looks stunning. The acting takes a little bit of a back seat but that said, Idris Elba and Ron Perlman more than make up for this in their stand out performances. The thing is, it's almost too good. The classic monster movies that us fans love were a bit cheap. They were low budget b-movies that were very much in 'So bad they're good' territory. By making a good version of something that we all love to be bad , del Toro has essentially made something unwanted and unnecessary. Rather him than anyone else though. I'll take it but I would have rather have seen HellBoy III.
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Pacific Rim Quotes
- Stacker Pentecost:
- Haven't you heard Mr. Beckett? The world is coming to an end. So where would you rather die? Here? Or in a Jaeger?
- Stacker Pentecost:
- Today we are cancelling the apocalypse!
- Hannibal Chau:
- I took my first name from a historical figure I respect, and my last name from my favorite Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn.
- Stacker Pentecost:
- One - don't you ever touch me again. Two - don't you ever touch me again.
- Gottlieb:
- Numbers do not lie. Politics and poetry, promises, these are lies. Numbers are as close as we get to the handwriting of god.
- Raleigh Becket:
- Empty the clip! Empty the clip!
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