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Mar 23, 2018 · Rated: 1.5/5 Sep 5, 2018 Full Review Robert Daniels 812filmreviews Pacific Rim: Uprising is the skim atop your cooling soup: an unnecessary goop spoiling your appetizing meal.
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Mar 23, 2018 · Pacific Rim Uprising. I'm writing this review in a hurry because every hour I wait makes it harder to remember "Pacific Rim Uprising." On a craft level, this sequel to Guillermo del Toro's monsters-versus-biomechanical warriors saga "Pacific Rim" isn't terrible. At the very least, it doesn't stint on images of huge things crashing into other ...
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By Lucy O'Brien
Updated: Mar 22, 2018 4:46 pm
Posted: Mar 20, 2018 5:00 pm
It would have been a pleasant surprise if Pacific Rim Uprising had used the opportunity of a sequel to scratch under the surface of the pulpy universe set up in the original. Done well, it might have revealed deeper reasons to care whether humans in giant robot suits could again defeat invading interdimensional monsters, beyond satisfying an appetite for its breathlessly fun fight scenes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. Instead, it leans heavily on the charming shoulders of Star Wars star John Boyega at the expense of developing the rest of a youthful, spirited new cast.
Uprising picks up 10 years after the original left off, in a world only half rebuilt from the destruction. Kudos must be given to production designer Stefan Dechant here, because Uprising’s cities are all either fully fleshed-out hubs of dust and skeletal remains of past battles, or vast, neon playgrounds at the cutting edge of futuristic rebuilding. This is a cohesive world that’s recognisable as our own, just a little out of reach – more Tokyo than Tokyo.
After a thrilling opening, it’s in the ashen remains of one of these forgotten towns that we are properly introduced to Jake Pentecost (John Boyega), son of fallen Marshal Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), and Amara (Cailee Spaeny). A pilot turned petty thief and a Jaeger-building wunderkind, the pair of street rats are soon enlisted by Jake’s sister Mako (Rinko Kikuchi) into the reformed Pan-Pacific Defence Corps to aid in their defensive efforts against a potential renewed threat from Pacific Rim’s hellmouth-born aliens, the Kaiju.
Pacific Rim Uprising is a loyal, if unremarkable, successor to the giddy original. There’s still a lot of fun to be had in the pleasure of watching Kaijus clash with Jaegers in spectacular, bone-rattling battles, and that’s reason enough to see it for a certain crowd. But beyond that, Uprising leaves a lot on the table in respects to developing thi...
Mar 20, 2018 · March 20, 2018 10:00am. Designed to appeal to adolescents of all ages, Pacific Rim Uprising is a film for anyone whose mental development peaked when they were playing Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots ...
Mar 22, 2018 · Pacific Rim Uprising is what that movie would’ve been without Guillermo del Toro. Not to drag Steven S. DeKnight’s 10-years-later sequel—it could’ve been a much worse mecha-wreck than it ...
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Mar 21, 2018 · Uprising is set some ten years after the events of the first Pacific Rim, after the war with the giant kaiju that has left all Pacific coastlines from Sydney to Santa Monica in ruins. Idris Elba ...
