So I just got back from the Pacific Rim premiere and it was epic. The movie comprised great action, acting and story. The film starts with narration telling how the Kaiju's came and how the machines began to win and become famous as said in the trailers. Now if you do not want to ruin the film don't go any further unless you've seen it. The film then starts with the protagonist,Beckett and his older brother getting into a Kaiju fight near Alaska. In the fight the older brother is ripped out of the Drift, memory base, and killed brutally by the Kaiju. However the youngest brother finishes the job and ends up on the shore injured badly by his left arm malfunctioning. As seen in the poster above. 5 years after this the UN decides to destroy the Jaegers(Giant Robots) because they were become ineffective versus the Kaijus. In an event to save the program Idris Elba's character hands the remains of the Kaiju's to a black market dealer. Later giving him cash to fund building more Jaegers. After building the final five Jaegers it becomes apparent they need pilots. Elba then recruits Beckett who did not die in the Alaska incident. He is then recruited to pilot one of the four left after another falls. They go to Hong Kong and start training him to get back inside the Jaeger. While this is going on two scientists start predicting the next Kaijus and their next moves. Although there is no evidence to support it Newton(Charlie Day) goes into the Drift with the Kaiju brain he is working on and learns half of their plans to send more and clone more of them. Newton is told he needs to go to the dealer for the brain. Newton goes to the mainland in Hong Kong. Then Beckett is introduced to Mako, Elba's assistant who is top of the class, as far as training goes. We learn later she was in the final Kaiju fight in Japan in which Elba saved her. She almost blows up the whole station in Drift. After a double occurrence, two Kaijus at once, Elba sends three of the remaining four Jaegers to defend the country. After two of them fall, and one is disabled, he is forced to send out the nuclear reactor fueled Jaeger with Mako and Beckett. They completely destroy the two Kaiju's along with almost all of Hong Kong. Meanwhile Newton had found the dealer and unfortunately it is interrupted with the Kaiju's. After being in the Drift, they want to kill Newton for all he knows. In other words they're all one big brain that knows everything the other knows. Newton narrowly escapes and goes back to the dealer who after examining the other two corpses finds that one is pregnant. The dealer is then eaten by the baby Kaiju. The Kaiju hokes itself with the umbilical chord and Newton hs his next brain. After repairing the gipsy which had it's arm torn off in battle two other Kaijus circle the bridge. Two Jaegers are sent out, one containing Idris Elba's character who will die after he gets out of the Kaiju because he piloted one Jaeger by himself for too long. The other Australian helps him with trying to take down the Kaiju. Meanwhile Newton and the other scientist go inside the Drift and find out the rest of their plans to terraform, live and move on. But in order to go to their world they need Kaiju DNA. So after sacrificing themselves(Australian pilot and Idris Elba) with a nuclear bomb almost destroying the ocean. The other two remaining pilots drag a body to trap the category five Kaiju into thinking they were going into the barrier. They indeed go into the barrier with the category five Kaiju killing it. They then detonate a bomb in the Kaiju world narrowly escaping death. The End. This movie was exciting, the story was logical,and actually made some sense giving a smart action film. Although the destruction is improbable it seems I had more fun watching this film then any other disaster film I've seen in awhile. The acting was solid for the most part and was a tiny bit predictable but had a few twists I wasn't expecting.
The Verdict: The giant robot vs. Kaiju movie, will definitely make my blu ray collection because of it's rich acting and amazing action sequences. 8.5/10
+Sound was loud and good
+Acting
+Action and destruction
+The story was often complicated and greatly handled.
+Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam,and Rinko Kikuchi
-A little predictable
-The younger Australian guy was too unlikable,but near the end got more bearable.
-A few moments of ridiculousness
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The Film Scientist
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