Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) by Mark A — 06 Jul 2018

Giant human-piloted mecha space-traveling war-machines fill the very rich, lived-in, perennially popular future history of anime's Gundam universe. Yet except for a promptly-forgotten Canadian TV movie, the numerous Gundam permutations have never been explored on the big screen (although a live-action...but sadly not big budget...adaptation has been just been announced; no writers, director, nor cast, so it might or might not exist in a few years).

Would that Guillermo del Toro had turned to this existing mythos for 2013's PACIFIC RIM--he surely could have worked kaiju into his script somehow-if only in service of creating a viable franchise going forward. A Gundam adaptation, or merely inspiration, could easily have resulted in a sequel far more satisfying than watching talented actors squandered on Steven DeKnight's insulting hodgepodge of inept direction, incompetent story-telling, and encyclopedic list of rando cliches.