Pacific Rim (2013)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 244
Fresh: 175 | Rotten: 69
It may sport more style than substance, but Pacific Rim is a solid modern creature feature bolstered by fantastical imagery and an irresistible sense of fun.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 15
It may sport more style than substance, but Pacific Rim is a solid modern creature feature bolstered by fantastical imagery and an irresistible sense of fun.
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Movie Info
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces
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Cast
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Charlie Hunnam
Raleigh Becket -
Diego Klattenhoff
Yancy Becket -
Idris Elba
Stacker Pentecost -
Rinko Kikuchi
Mako Mori -
Charlie Day
Dr. Newton Geiszler -
Burn Gorman
Gottlieb -
Max Martini
Herc Hansen -
Rob Kazinsky
Chuck Hansen -
Clifton Collins Jr.
Ops Tendo Choi -
Ron Perlman
Hannibal Chau -
Brad William Henke
Construction Foreman -
Larry Joe Campbell
Construction Worker -
Mana Ashida
Young Mako -
Santiago Segura
Wizened Man -
Joe Pingue
Captain Merrit -
Milton Barnes
McTighe -
Brian Frank
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Ellen McLain
Gipsy Danger AI -
David Fox
Old Man on Beach -
Jake Goodman
Child -
Robin Thomas
American UN Represen... -
Julian Barnes
British UN Represent... -
David Richmond-Peck
Canadian UN Represen... -
Charles Luu
Wei Tang Triplet -
Lance Luu
Wei Tang Triplet -
Mark Luu
Wei Tang Triplet -
Robert Maillet
Lt. S. Kaidanovsky -
Heather Doerksen
Lt. A. Kaidanovsky -
Joshua Peace
Officer -
Sebastian Pigott
Engineer -
Victoria Marie
Chinese Girl in Anti... -
Roger Wong
Man in Anti-Kaiju Re... -
J. C. Kenny
TV Reporter -
Jane Watson
Raleigh and Yancy's ... -
Robert Morse
Raleigh and Yancy's ... -
Paul Wyers
Young Raleigh -
Tyler Stevenson
Young Yancy -
Mike Chute
Saltchuck Crew -
Duncan McLeod
Saltchuck Crew -
Louis Paquette
Saltchuck Crew -
Matthew G. Taylor
Saltchuck Crew -
Terry Belleville
UN Representative -
Frank T. Nakashima
UN Representative -
Farzad Sadrian
UN Representative -
Mishu Vellani
UN Representative -
Clive Walton
UN Representative -
Peter Kosaka
Young Mako's Father -
Yiren Stark
Young Mako's Mother -
Hubert Tran
Asian Boy -
Trek Buccino
Young Newt -
Drew Adkins
Young Gottlieb -
Kelvin Lum
Hannibal Chau Thug -
Soo David Chum Ling
Hannibal Chau Thug -
Randy Lee
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Jung Yul Kim
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Kaelyn Wong
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All Critics (246) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (175) | Rotten (69) | DVD (2)
It is possible to applaud Pacific Rim for the efficacy of its business model while deploring the tale that has been engendered -- long, loud, dark, and very wet. You might as well watch the birth of an elephant.
Top CriticA ridiculously entertaining (and often just plain ridiculous) monster-robot movie that plays like that "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots" game from the 1960s.
Its visual achievements notwithstanding, Pacific Rim's greatest breakthrough may be that it's the first Hollywood blockbuster to sport a title less descriptive of its plot than of its intended market.
It's as if Del Toro neuro-linked with a robot and then couldn't figure out how to work the controls -- and so watched impotently as the machine made the major creative decisions.
There are long sequences in this movie that merit that most overused of terms: "Awesome."
Del Toro is reveling in blockbuster clichés at the same time he's pounding them into the pavement, and somehow that self-consciousness lets us all in on the joke.
Feels like it's always struggling to break through the screen-if only to grab you by the scruff of the neck and drag you in.
There was a time when I would have considered Pacific Rim the greatest movie ever made. But then I turned 12.
Pacific Rim is the perfect example of how to make an effective summer blockbuster. It has heart, brains and enough action and explosions to shock and awe just about anyone.
A blockbuster of substance and depth...
The plot is well designed considering how silly the movie really is. Credit that to Guillermo Del Toro. He obviously put a lot of though into the picture, but it's still a basic action film, and the selling point is giant robots battling giant monsters.
If it sounds kinda fun, please know it is, with those aforementioned scientists (TV faces Charlie Day and Burn Gorman) creating some laughs with their goofy nature of oneupsmanship.
...a punishing ordeal that just might mark the nadir of the modern big-budget blockbuster...
Impossível deixarmos a sala de projeção sem uma sensação clara de caloroso retorno à infância.
Fueled by an ambition that channels enthusiasm for characters and narrative details above the high-octane action, and driven by visual effects that are a compliment to those traits rather than a distraction.
the attention to social detail, as well as the film's visual punch, makes Pacific Rim more than a monsters-on-the-rampage movie--although it is certainly that, as well.
It's del Toro's squarest, least interesting film. It's as if the sense of fun and wonder collapsed beneath the gargantuism of the budget, in an esthetic equivalent of the square-cube law that makes the story's monsters impossible in real life.
It's stupid but I liked it.
Monster action with minor smarts...the fatigue factor sets in early, especially without much humor and only corny asides available to balance the onslaught.
It's the movie Transformers should have been, treating the lizard-brain appeal of a fight between humongous critters with the respect it deserves.
A movie that both distills and perfects the tradition from which it's drawn.
Giant robots and ugly sea monsters stave off disaster for Del Toro's latest
My inner 10-year old thought "Pacific Rim" was totally cool, engaging and entertaining. My current, outer 45-year old thinks it best not to think too hard about the plot.
Beyond the brink but an entertainment just the same. If you have the same reaction I did about the time issue, you may start thinking you'll never get home. But, once you do, you'll have a lot to talk about.
Guillermo del Toro delivers on the special effects but the plot is a little weak.
In many ways this is the best giant monster film ever made. And in many ways it should have been better.
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- Hannibal Chau: I took my first name from a historical figure I respect, and my last name from my favorite Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn.
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- Stacker Pentecost: One - don't you ever touch me again. Two - don't you ever touch me again.
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- Gottlieb: Numbers do not lie. Politics and poetry, promises, these are lies. Numbers are as close as we get to the handwriting of god.
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- Raleigh Becket: Empty the clip! Empty the clip!
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- Raleigh Becket: Let's go fishing.
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- Stacker Pentecost: Mako! You can finish this! I'll always be there for you! You can always find me in the drift!
Discussion Forum
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| Guess the tomatometer! | 9 days ago | 561 |
| Mash-up, Rip-off, lame lame lame | 28 days ago | 296 |
| It must be true that the incompetent, poor lesser beings think this film will be impressive | 34 days ago | 278 |
| Overrated Movies | 31 days ago | 209 |
| I watched Oldboy, guys | 28 days ago | 203 |
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