Review of Pacific Rim (2013) by Serban A — 11 Jun 2018

I love this movie! A lot of people would boil it down to giant robots fighting giant monsters but it's so much more than that. You can feel the time and effort Guillermo del Torro put into crafting this world, its characters and the journey they go on.

Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi play off each other great as lead actors. Their characters are interesting, their backgrounds are well developed and although they become very close to each other during the movie their relation feels natural; they are not pushed into an artificial love interest for the sake of it as in most Hollywood production but rather they develop a close bond and friendship.

Idris Elba as the jaded general that's seen it all is fantastic. Ron Perlman is also fantastic as the eccentric collector Hannibal Chau. Charlie Day is a bit of a mixed bag for me as I found it hard to picture him as the mad genius but although I think a better casting choice could have been made, he never pulled me out of the immersion.

All the Jaggers and Kaijus are creative and interesting and they feel huge. When you watch them fight you do get the feeling that a giant machine is fighting a giant beast unlike in something like Transformers.

The movie looks beautiful and the music is fantastic. I admit that I had very low expectations when I went into the cinema and expected another big disappointment like all the Transformers movies but I was blown away by how much I enjoyed this movie and I still do.

It became my guilty pleasure movie and I could never refuse watching it.