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Good movie but grossly overrated

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

It is similar to the first Transformer movies but with more adrenalin and less finesse, humor & interesting actors. I just barely managed to get through it, with the help of the FF butoon at times. Do watch the sequel from 2018 though, it is much better.

This is by far (in my opinion) dell toros greatest film. Yes, you may say El Laberinto Del Fauno or Hellboy rival it, but in my opinion this is brilliant. To start off the visual effects in this are one of a kind and although people say the storyline is unoriginal, the way it's executed is still bloody awesome. If I had to sum up this movie in three words, I would say. Badass, beautiful and uplifting, and to be completely honest what more does a film need?

Pacific Rim is a wonderfully straightforward mecha flick with a surprisingly well-realized universe. Del Toro goes way beyond the expected in creating unique, lived-in, awesome locations that could only exist in Pacific Rim's goofy universe. Entire blocks of city were build on hydrolics, within hangers, to give thundering kaiju monsters the heft and vibrational implact they deserve. It makes all the difference to see puddles of water rippling with each stomp, and see buildings shaking.Beyond the sheer craftsman, I adore how fully this movie embraces its macho bravado. The music is all guitar riffs and swelling fist pumping anthems, the fights scenes are chalk-full of pilots barking orders and fun one-lines. the mechs are these delightfully ugly hunks-a-junks, all pistons and metal plates and dangling wires. It absolutely rules. The cockpits are another thing Del Toro had build in real life, on hydralic pistons, so that the actors could get tossed around and doused with water. Again, it makes all the difference. This movie invites you to enjoy some big dumb apes wail on space dinosaurs with rocket fists. It embraces the absurdity of their universe and goes whole hogg with it.I also particularly love how, at no point in this movie, does it celebrate what you'd expect from a macho flick - this isn't all about the nobility of men sacrificing themselves to protect women, or about mocking men for emoting or showing weakness. The cast is littered with strong people in desperate situations, trying help each other out and tap into inner motivation, rather than "toughen each other up" with repressive garbage. Characters are shown being weak, being scared, and ultimately, overcoming it all to become who they want. It's a simple message, but lordy am I glad to see it dodge all the pitfalls you'd normally see in a flick like this.All actors give frankly wonderful performances. I could go into that more, but Perlman, Kikuchi, Eldba, and Day stick out to me as being particularly great. Everyone treats this ridiculous universe with absolute conviction, and it really sells it.Only negatives I can really point out are the fact that a lot of the battles are in pouring rain, which eh, is not my favorite thing. Also, Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon don't get nearly as much screen time as we all desperately wanted. Maybe they hit that budget wall.So yeah, absolutely, whole-hearted recommended. This movie is a joy.

An incredible waste of $190M. The first twenty minutes were pure cringe; I was hoping, but not expecting, that it would somehow be a self-satire, considering it was as obnoxiously over-the-top as the Alliance military culture in Starship Troopers, but alas, no. Entirely sincere. The only good things of substance were the performances and the bits of passable dialog between Elba, the blonde guy (the main one, not the 5 other ones), and Kikuchi. The script was interminably and unrepentantly stupid without a shred of self awareness. There is no sense of what's going on in the wider world, and the action scenes - despite having technically competent effects and production design - were just boring. Another entirely derivative and forgettable action film, barely having a personality past its formula. The child actor playing little Mako in the flashback sequence was incredible, however. Bravo.PS If you want an actually compelling alien sci-fi actioner, watch Edge of Tomorrow. The very ending doesn't make sense, but it's compelling throughout.