Del Toro is a dreamer. He's a visionary. If you give him a pile of money to make enormous robots fight enormous monsters at the end of civilization, he will work to make Pacific Rim a movie that makes you feel all the enormousness.
Pacific Rim
To fight monsters, we created monsters.
2013 · 2h 11m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by
Guillermo del Toro
Overview
Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Director and cast
- Guillermo del Toro Director
- Idris Elba as Stacker Pentecost
- Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket
- Charlie Day as Dr. Newton Geiszler
- Ron Perlman as Hannibal Chau
- Burn Gorman as Gottlieb
- Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori
- Max Martini as Herc Hansen
- Robert Maillet as Aleksis Kaidanovsky
- Robert Kazinsky as Chuck Hansen
- Larry Joe Campbell as Tommy T
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
It is possible to applaud Pacific Rim for the efficacy of its business model while deploring the tale that has been engendered -- long, loud, dark, and very wet. You might as well watch the birth of an elephant.
A ridiculously entertaining (and often just plain ridiculous) monster-robot movie that plays like that "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots" game from the 1960s.
Its visual achievements notwithstanding, Pacific Rim's greatest breakthrough may be that it's the first Hollywood blockbuster to sport a title less descriptive of its plot than of its intended market.
It's as if Del Toro neuro-linked with a robot and then couldn't figure out how to work the controls -- and so watched impotently as the machine made the major creative decisions.
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