I'd heard this film was a really good one so my kids and I sat down to watch it.
If you're looking for action, giant monsters aka Kaiju (a la Godzilla and friends), giant robots, great special effects, and a star-studded cast, then you'll probably love this.
Aliens from another universe have created a breach in the Pacific that allows them to send increasingly large monsters through. Humans initially hold them off with existing tech, but quickly realize that it's an unsustainable approach, so most of humanity unites (there'll always be the criminals and others) and creates giant robots, Jaegers (German for "hunter"), to fight them. Things go well until they start adapting to the robots and desperate measures are taken to end the invasion. That's the gist of the movie.
Okay, so here's the rest of the review: If you watch this movie, please don't be analytical. There are so many techno-science problems with it that I found myself rolling my eyes sometimes, and now I'm flashing back to the same sort of inanity in modern Star Trek episodes like the one where Geordi La Forge is out of sync with the Enterprise yet can remain within it, breathing, instead of drifting into space. Dumb stuff. One point that often irks me about sci fi is the assumption that automated tech is inferior to human abilities. Deep Blue proved that a computer can out-think a human decades ago. It's only a matter of time before AI proves that the human piloting in Star Wars, Pacific Rim and every other sci fi show and movie that relies on humans are wrong-headed in the extreme. Humans are inferior in the future to the machines that help and care for them, and the makers of Pacific Rim ignore this.
They also completely ignore the concept of remote control...And the concept that you do not need to have your pilots over-exerting themselves to pilot a giant robot. Yes, yes, it's all for drama, I know, so turn off your analytical brain and enjoy the kaiju, robots and great SFX, because it doesn't stand the litmus test of intelligent design.
If you're looking for handsome men and pretty women, you won't be disappointed, although there aren't many women - but there's a fair amount of ethnic diversity.
This is what you call a "fun" movie, not a movie that stands up to criticism on the sci fi front. Get your water and your popcorn ready, turn off your left brain and enjoy the ride!
Not recommended for pre-teens or younger due to violence, language, death and alien blood. ;)
If you appreciate this article, please 🏅upvote/like👍
, 🤩resteem/share
and share it to Facebook
, Twitter
, Reddit
, LinkedIn
and wherever else
you can!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
LOL!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit