PACIFIC RIM UPRISING – “An exercise in short attention span cinema”
RATING
DIRECTOR
STARRING
- John Boyega as Jake Pentecost
- Scott Eastwood as Nate Lambert
- Cailee Spaeny as Amara Namani
- Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori
- Charlie Day as Dr. Newt Geiszler
- Burn Gorman as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
SYNOPSIS
A sequel to the 2013 film Pacific Rim by Guillermo del Toro.
Ten years after the Battle of the Breach in the first film, the Jaeger program has evolved into the next generation for the PPDC (Pan Pacific Defence Corp). However, a mysterious organization has reopened the Breach for the Kaiju and a Jaeger has gone rogue. Jake Pentecost rises up to stand against the evolved Kaiju and the mysterious rogue Jaeger.
REVIEW SUMMARY
"Like the Transformer films, this movie also feels like an exercise in “short attention span cinema." And with so much going on all the time, most of what is being thrown at you is complete nonsense. It’s akin to giving a 5-year-old boy a few GI Joes, a couple of big robot monster toys and filming him play. That's the movie. As for those giant robot VS giant monster fights, I'm happy to say they are pretty solid with lots of immense destruction. My inner little boy would have loved it – butttt unfortunately I’m a grown man and know when things can be so much better."
BOX OFFICE TOP 5
7
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
$4.6 million