Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) by Ket — 25 Sep 2018

If I had to describe this film in just one word that word would be awful. After the first film that spent a lot of time building up characters I was looking forward to seeing how the surviving characters from the first film had developed and changed and looking forward to seeing more of a developed backstory to the Jaegers and Kaijus.

Instead what we get is an empty husk of a film devoid of anything that made the first film good with fight scenes even for a film such as this utterly preposterous with a bunch of halfwit nobody actors (except for perhaps Boyega) with the only performances of note being the original returning actors / characters putting in even a halfway decent performance that is marred by the terrible quality of actors around them and almost non-existent plot and story.

The original film had great moments to remember even if some of the writing was shanky (Idris Elbas "speech" was particularly cringy) and certainly its fair share of rough edges but this teeny bopper cringefest sequel takes an all new level of low.

I wish I could erase it from my memory. If you even thought the first film was just ok do yourself a favour and give this sequel a wide birth. Bring back all of the surviving characters and actors from the first film (yes that includes the one you killed in this abortion of a sequel I don't care how you do it) and we might have a good new IP on our hands again.