'Pacific Rim 2' review: This time, it's impersonal
It's the sequel that no one asked for. It's up to Jake and his friends to cancel the apocalypse - again. Director Steven S. DeKnight, a TV producer and director known for Netflix's "Daredevil" and other series, has taken the reins from filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.
It's essentially downgraded from a Pay-Per-View worthy bout to the kind of shitty jobbers you'd find in the wrestling ring weekend after weekend at your local high school gymnasium (I kept waiting for a giant botch, or for a giant table to appear as a new landmark in Tokyo for one of the Jaegers to smash into).
DeKnight establishes this premise with a swiftness that's apt to give one whiplash - or to leave those unfamiliar with the first "Pacific Rim" struggling to keep up. The plot line was just a basic rehash of the first movie. I can't make heads or tails of it story-wise, but visually, it means John Boyega and Scott Eastwood groove in some martial-arts Dance Dance Revolution as digital renderings of rockets fly by their heads.
At Comic-Con you said that "Pacific Rim: Uprising" was about unity, why was that so important for you?
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Pacific Rim Uprising movie review: A plodding monster versus robot mayhem
And, as noted, the concept is simple enough and clearly explained so that you won't find yourself too lost in the series mythos. Del Toro is rightfully known to create monsters and beings that do not exist as he did with Pacific Rim .
Spaeny shines in her first film role, and casting director Sarah Halley Finn has stacked the cast with a roster of interesting, magnetic newcomers. Drone jaegers? Kaiju jaegers?
British native Boyega goes full-tilt cockney and his accent is so thick and garbled most of his dialogue should (but doesn't) come with subtitles. He's surrounded by a diverse worldwide cast, not all of whom are given much to do (a half-assed love interest is horrendously underwritten) and the film's clear attempts to appeal to a Chinese audience don't feel as tokenistic as they have often felt in other blockbusters.
However, this is where Uprising also starts to lose its momentum - while Boyega and Spaeny are great, the rest of the supporting cast struggles to catch up. Which is why we wanted to pay tribute to those glorious monster movies by giving Pacific Rim Uprising its very own 1975-style remix. I grew up on Godzilla movies and retain some vestigial fondness for them-and, incidentally, I can't stand Transformers movies. If you liked Pacific Rim, you'll probably like Uprising, too. Also, if the intention is to make the sequel more of a character-driven film then bring on better actors! Luckily they've got giant robots and a bunch of teenagers ready to go, so John Boyega and Nate Whiteout decide to kick ass and save the day, and uncover who exactly is behind all of this nonsense. Capable of delivering so much more than what that film ultimately was able to, del Toro may have injected some of his usual fantastic-ness into proceedings, but a procession of sequences featuring giant robots fighting mythical creatures interspersed with questionable acting resulted in a destructively silly actioner that was more trash than treasure. Pacific Rim succeeded in giving each a realistic appearance as well. One that's particularly impressive: Black Panther has spent five consecutive weekends at the top of the US box office, making more than a billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide and beating out other high-profile films likeTomb Raider and A Wrinkle in Time. It's only when the movie moves into the end of the second act that things begin to unravel badly. There's a redemption arc for Jake that you can guess in its entirety from the first shot of Boyega; there's some hint of a love triangle between Jake, Lambert, and a woman played by Adria Arjona about whom I couldn't tell you the first thing. The $5-million movie is expected to take in $4 million to $9 million through Sunday, and will face substantial competition from Roadside Attractions' "I Can Only Imagine", which became a surprise Christian hit last weekend when it opened with $17.1 million.
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