Pacfifc rim mind meld1/6/2023 ![]() ![]() There are things to quibble about with the script. But you can probably tell from the advertisements whether or not this is a film for you. I enjoyed the sequences a great deal, as did the audience with which I saw Pacific Rim. Their bickering, and Newton’s dealings with black market hustler Hannibal Chau (Ron Perlman), inject a dose of levity into the proceedings and help remind us that, yes, we are watching an utterly ridiculous-and ridiculously fun-movie.Īs for the main attraction-the extended battles between mecha-warriors and extra-dimensional monsters-well, what is there to critique? You’re either going to enjoy watching several-hundred-feet tall robots use giant shipping tankers as Kendo sticks against several-hundred-feet tall monsters who spit acid and emit EMPs, or you aren’t. Providing comic relief are a pair of scientists: mathematician Gottlieb (Burn Gorman) and alien biologist/"kaiju groupie" Newton (Charlie Day). Raleigh finds a new copilot, and a kindred spirit, in Mako (Rinko Kikuchi). Raleigh was traumatized by his brother’s death, which he felt firsthand, as the "mental load" required to pilot a Jaeger requires two fighter jocks to engage in a sort of mind-meld that allows them to operate, and fight, in sync. To accomplish his goal, he needs Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam), an ace Jaeger pilot whose copilot (and brother) is killed in the film’s opening battle. The leader of the giant robots, Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), has planned one last mission to seal the underwater breach from which the monsters enter our world. The destruction of numerous Jaegers in battle with increasingly sophisticated monsters prompts the world’s governments to build walls around coastal nations in order to keep the rampaging monsters out. ![]() Fiscal collapse is imminent as the world evacuates its coastlines and resources are poured into military programs designed to stop the seemingly endless wave of monster attacks. A black market in kaiju organs has sprung up, one of the few booming sectors in the global economy. Hong Kong, the site of an attack, has been rebuilt around a giant carcass-a kaiju skull serves as a church. Like Ridley Scott’s Alien or Blade Runner, this is a future that feels lived in. The robotic Jaegers (German for hunter) that defend the planet aren’t shiny and new but are dinged up the suits their pilots wear are scuffed. Set 12 years in the future, the world of Pacific Rim has been ravaged by kaiju (Japanese for giant monster) attacks for more than a decade. But the little touches added by del Toro are what bring this universe to life. And yes, they’re pretty cool looking and fun and fantastic. ![]() Yes, there are giant monsters fighting giant robots. Despite being a big, blustery blockbuster, Pacific Rim may work best in its smaller moments, a testament to director Guillermo del Toro’s ability to build worlds. ![]()
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