IMDb plot summary: As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, and Charlie Day.
If you mostly tune into this movie expecting some big dramatic kind-of-cool scenes of giant monsters fighting giant robots, you're going to be very pleased. If you tune into it expecting powerful character development or spooky gothic atmosphere like many of Del Toro's other movies, it won't do so well. I find the male lead in particular pretty insufferable and wish almost anybody but him in this ensemble cast had been chosen to center the movie. Writing up this review a few days after watching it, all I really remember is the chaotic fight scenes, and that's probably all it was meant to do, but I did find myself wanting something more from it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Pacific Rim < Dark and Stormy Night
Pacific Rim > The Lorax (1972)
Pacific Rim > No Sudden Move
Pacific Rim < The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Pacific Rim < The Shop Around the Corner
Pacific Rim > Jurassic World
Pacific Rim > Jezebel
Pacific Rim > Streets of Fire
Pacific Rim < The Fourth Kind
Pacific Rim > Office Space
Pacific Rim < Blow Out
Final spot: #2040 out of 3421, or 40%.
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