Through a series of machinations three Kaiju (read Godzilla’s) are released upon the surface of the earth from their home below the Pacific and it’s up to our intrepid heroes to save the day as the monsters make their way to Mt. Outshining Boyega in almost every respect is his female costar Spaeny who plays a 15-year old (the actress is actually 19) who lost her parents in the previous war and built her own Jaeger from scrap so she would be better prepared “next time.” She steals every scene in which she makes an appearance, whereas her costars appear to be merely picking up a paycheck. Boyega makes a valiant attempt to chew on this nugget, but in the end it’s really all rather irrelevant. In the attempt to give Boyega some back-story to play with we are repeatedly hit over the head with the storyline that his character is the son of worldwide hero Stacker Pentecost who saved the day in the first movie. For the Pacific Rim uninitiated Jaegers are giant robots controlled by two pilots used to battle the giant monsters. It features former Jaeger pilot turned thief Jake Pentecost (Boyega) and aforementioned spunky junkyard scavenger Amara Namani (played by newcomer Cailee Spaeny) being unwillingly drafted into the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps, as a trainer and cadet respectively. The paper-thin plot harkens back to cinema from a bygone era, complete with all the attending cliché’s – this isn’t after all the first time that monsters have rampaged roughshod through Japanese cities. The showy special effects and battle scenes are the main event with the character drama (for what it is) simply background in an attempt to humanize the milieu. The special effects in Pacific Rim Uprising by comparison are undoubtedly impressive, but they cannot serve what was their chief purpose, to shield the cinema audience from appreciating just how weak the plot is and how many holes in said-plot are clearly evident to even the weakest minded movie-goer.īut, I don’t think anyone who has seen the original Pacific Rim in 2013, expected great cinema from this sequel.
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Nor, is this the first movie where both he and the female lead are upstaged by big dazzling special effects, but at least in the Star Wars films you felt that they had some heart and soul and moved the plot along.
After all, this isn’t the first movie where he starred as a disgruntled former-soldier who is upstaged by a younger actress playing a spunky, junkyard scavenger. John Boyega, who is best-known for his role as Finn in the “Star Wars” series, probably got an eerie sense of familiarity while filming the popcorn-munching worthy nonsense that is Pacific Rim Uprising. It is the sequel to the 2013 film Pacific Rim. Pacific Rim Uprising is a 2018 American science fiction film directed by Steven S.
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