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Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Directed by Steven S. DeKnight

Action | Adventure | Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sleestakk, CaptainBigTime, zombiefreak

Overview

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

Rated PG-13 | Length 111 minutes

Actors

John Boyega | Scott Eastwood | Cailee Spaeny | Jing Tian | Rinko Kikuchi | Burn Gorman | Adria Arjona | Zhang Jin | Charlie Day | Madeleine McGraw | Karan Brar | Ivanna Sakhno | Mackenyu Arata | Wesley Wong | Levi Meaden | Rahart Adams | Zhu Zhu | Nick E. Tarabay | Dustin Clare | Daniel Feuerriegel | Lily Ji | Shyrley Rodriguez | Ellen McLain | Sam Kalidi | Jamie Slater | Lyric Lan | Chen Zitong | Yongchen Qian | Stephanie Allynne | Bridger Zadina | Jai Day | Peter Overton

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

It gets a little better as it goes along but the first third of this is very poorly, lazily written. Scott Eastwood is the most charismatic of the cast. Rinko Kikuchi’s talents are just completely wasted here; her character only exists as a plot point (two actually but still).

The movie eschews any type of real character building for the spectacle of giant mecha vs. giant kaiju battles, the primary one being in Tokyo in what I assume is an effort to spiritually connect this with the legacy of the original kaiju, Godzilla.

Unlike the first movie, this might play a little better in my home theater than it did on the big screen; but the shoddy writing is also more apparent.

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