Pacific Rim is Robocop meets Godzilla, on steroids. The digital effects are incredible. The visuals really display the enormity of the robots and aliens well. It's simply remarkable to watch. It is however a little busy on the eyes. Not as busy as a Michael Bay film, but if you're not an action fan in general, you might not appreciate the sequences as much.
This is essentially a digital film with some really bad human actors. The casting and acting is all wrong. COMPLETELY wrong! Charlie Hunnam, who plays Raleigh Becket, and Rinko Kikuchi, who plays Mako Mori, are downright embarrassing. It's painfully clear there was no budget left for decent actors. It is exacerbated by a sloppy script and a lack of directing effort (on the human aspects) by Guillermo del Toro.
The character development lacks attention and focuses on the wrong people. It focuses on Raleigh and Mako when it should focus on the father-son duo, Herc and Chuck Hansen, played by Max Martini and Robert Kazinsky respectively. Kazinsky, pulling the best performance of the entire movie, clearly should have been the star.
The Russian and Chinese pilots are fun and quirky. There isn't enough time paid to them and not enough pilots either. It would have been fun to see all of them training together and getting to know each other. Instead, you're forced to follow around aimless Raleigh.
Idris Elba, as "Marshall" Stacker Pentecost, is underutilized in his ability and his character. The trailers misrepresent his role in the action.
I would recommend watching this one but only for the amazing digital effects.
Side note: One thing that bothers me; I found it quite odd that there are hardly any marine animals. There are a few fish, that's it. A little weird considering the robots and aliens are walking through the ocean like it's a swimming pool.
Pacific Rim Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guMumPFBag
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