Pacific Rim: Uprising
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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.
What critics thought
Critics largely panned Pacific Rim: Uprising as a hollow step down from Guillermo del Toro's original, faulting the new director for trading the first film's eccentric visual imagination for generic, functional monster-brawling. A minority found enough energy in John Boyega's performance and the daytime action sequences to call it passable blockbuster entertainment, but the majority felt it offered nothing beyond noise.
“The climactic battle drags on forever and looks like a high-tech update of a monster movie clash of the titans from a half-century ago. Even the sight of the residents of Tokyo scrambling for their lives as a giant lizard monster stomps through the city serves only as a reminder we're sitting through a glorified B-movie with nothing new to say.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“Pacific Rim Uprising is a lot like the city-crunching monsters it stars: big, loud and as dull-witted as Homer Simpson roused from a medically induced coma. It's a rote, paint-by-numbers blockbuster that would be offensive in its mediocrity if it also weren't so relentlessly uninspired”
Cary Darling·Houston Chronicle
“simply put, it lacks its predecessor's curiosity about its world—its fascination with colorful backdrops and machines. Del Toro's movie [...] had an idealistic vision for its anime-influenced hobby-store pursuits [...] Pacific Rim Uprising offers only its spare parts.”
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky·The A.V. Club
“a movie about massive monster-fighting robots doesn't need so much engineering”
New York Daily News
“DeKnight doesn't attempt to invest his monsters with majesty, the way Guillermo del Toro did in the previous film. With DeKnight it's just a lot of pounding, smashing and driving, purely functional”
Mick LaSalle·San Francisco Chronicle
Genres
Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure
Cast & Crew
DirectorSteven S. DeKnight
StarringJohn Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Jing Tian, Rinko Kikuchi
ComposerLorne Balfe
Pacific Rim: Uprising
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.
What critics thought
Critics largely panned Pacific Rim: Uprising as a hollow step down from Guillermo del Toro's original, faulting the new director for trading the first film's eccentric visual imagination for generic, functional monster-brawling. A minority found enough energy in John Boyega's performance and the daytime action sequences to call it passable blockbuster entertainment, but the majority felt it offered nothing beyond noise.
“The climactic battle drags on forever and looks like a high-tech update of a monster movie clash of the titans from a half-century ago. Even the sight of the residents of Tokyo scrambling for their lives as a giant lizard monster stomps through the city serves only as a reminder we're sitting through a glorified B-movie with nothing new to say.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“Pacific Rim Uprising is a lot like the city-crunching monsters it stars: big, loud and as dull-witted as Homer Simpson roused from a medically induced coma. It's a rote, paint-by-numbers blockbuster that would be offensive in its mediocrity if it also weren't so relentlessly uninspired”
Cary Darling·Houston Chronicle
“simply put, it lacks its predecessor's curiosity about its world—its fascination with colorful backdrops and machines. Del Toro's movie [...] had an idealistic vision for its anime-influenced hobby-store pursuits [...] Pacific Rim Uprising offers only its spare parts.”
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky·The A.V. Club
“a movie about massive monster-fighting robots doesn't need so much engineering”
New York Daily News
“DeKnight doesn't attempt to invest his monsters with majesty, the way Guillermo del Toro did in the previous film. With DeKnight it's just a lot of pounding, smashing and driving, purely functional”
Mick LaSalle·San Francisco Chronicle
Genres
Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure
Cast & Crew
DirectorSteven S. DeKnight
StarringJohn Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Jing Tian, Rinko Kikuchi
ComposerLorne Balfe
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