![]() John Boyega plays Jake Pentecost in Pacific Rim: Uprising. So what’s most interesting about Pacific Rim: Uprising isn’t the movie itself - it’s how the cause of the impending apocalypse has evolved from the first to the second film, and how that maps onto apocalyptic stories more generally. The world didn’t need another Transformers clone, with random slo-mo shots and scintillating dialogue like, “We only get one shot at this!” “Yeah, let’s make it count!” (Four screenwriters, and this is the stuff they came up with?) DeKnight - who’s spent his career working in television, on shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Daredevil - the sequel takes the path of least resistance, becoming less pleasantly erratic, more ponderously predictable. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markĪlas, under the direction of Steven S. Pacific Rim: Uprising would either have to figure out how to replicate its predecessor’s charm or find a new way to up the ante. It was, in some ways, the exemplary big, silly, ’splodey movie, and the thinness of the plot didn’t really matter. Most of the fun of Pacific Rim was in the unpredictable world building, and after that, in the kaiju-Jaeger fights. Giant monsters created by beings called “precursors” in another realm, sent through a portal to wreck our universe, and beaten back by giant robots called Jaegers, piloted by pairs of humans? Bring it on. ![]() But there was a bit more going on beneath the hood.Ĭo-written and directed by 2018 Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro, the first Pacific Rim drew on the traditions of kaiju and mecha, added some funky neural science, and was gross and weird enough to be both recognizably a del Toro movie and often a lot of fun. When the first Pacific Rim movie came out in 2013, the marketing made it look like another big, silly, ’splodey movie, in the tradition of the Transformers franchise. ![]()
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