Review of Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) by Enkindled — 04 Apr 2018

I really enjoyed the first Pacific Rim, since I am a huge fan of both giant robots and monsters all my life, but this movie was a gigantic letdown. If you are a fan of those things like me, you will be VERY disappointed. In the first 10 min into the movie, I already saw the colossal plot hole the movie would be. You will see tons of the most common cliches in movie writing (the bad ones). In contrast with the first movie, the plot has no appeal, uninteresting characters, bad writing, bad dialogs, bad jokes. Don't expect the immersion, good action and interesting Mechas and pilots like the first movie. Being completely honest, it looks like a movie made for little kids, with characters that would only be appealing for little kids (like 8-10 years old). They lose a massive amount of time in ridiculous dialogs and cliche plot roles.

Oh... and, there is an ENORMOUS plot hole between this movie and the first one that is never explained. You can see that the change of directors (del Toro does not direct this one) hurt the movie. The mecha fights were non-appealing, they completely break the laws of physics and were overall lame. The Kaijus are like completely secondary... in a Kaiju movie.

So, in general... if you wanna see some mechs punch each other and with little to non-Kaiju action, and you don't care about writing and interesting characters, go see. If you want the opposite, just keed your memories of the first movie.