Pacific Rim mixes Japanese
monster movies, cyberpunk, and a dose of the Millennium Falcon’s decrepitude in Star Wars.
Monsters are emerging from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and attacking the
coasts. The response is to build huge robots to wade out and kill the monsters.
So we have a lot of kung fu fighting between robots and monsters. With some
hinted-at backstory between characters, Rinko Kikuchi playing a gorgeous
Japanese scientist who is a robot co-pilot, and the underrated Idris Elba as
the squadron leader, it's a classic "let's save the world" story as
directed by Guillermo del Toro. As my son James put it on Facebook, "Epic
monster mecha movie. Shit. Go. Boom. With a side of plot." Like The
Matrix, it succeeds at telling exactly the story it wants to tell, and
nothing more.
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