Parent reviews for pacific rim uprising 2018
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Now, credit where credit is due, director Steven S. And none of it comes together as a cohesive thematic whole, as the disparate storylines bump around without much development or even much logical consistency until it's time for the promised third act showdown. Entire characters, such as a love triangle interest for John and Nate, are introduced only to be almost entirely forgotten for the rest of the movie. Sometimes it's about Newt in the thrall of a shady Chinese corporation that wants to automate Jaegers with drone technology. Sometimes it's about the inability of the cadets to function as a unit. Sometimes it's about Amara getting over the trauma of watching her family die in a kaiju attack. Sometimes the film is about Jake trying to live up to the legacy of his father. There's too much plot going on here, trying to balance the concerns of setting up a new franchise's worth of characters while paying homage to the previous film's stars (Charlie Day and Burn Gorman also return as Newt and Gottlieb to mixed results), and the resulting mish-mash of tropes and character arcs trip over each other for attention and screentime.
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If all this seems pretty underwhelming as the plot of a film where you want the metal one to punch the blue blood out of the spiky one, then you've pretty much surmised why Uprising doesn't entirely work. While there we find Jake's past as a Jaeger pilot catching up with him in the form of his old co-pilot Nate (Scott Eastwood, exuding about as much personality as a parked car), while a mysterious threat of a rogue Jaeger looms on the fringes of the post-war peace. Rather than face jail time, Jake is enlisted by his sister, the legendary Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi), to join the Jaeger Academy with Amara as a teacher and cadet, respectively. In his misadventures, he meets Amara (Cailee Spaeny), a teenage scrapper who built her own single-pilot mini-Jaeger (what this franchise calls the giant robots) and consequently drags Jake into some shenanigans with the law. Picking up ten years after the events of the original film, Uprising finds Jake Pentecost (John Boyega), son of Idris Elba's character, making his way through life as a thief in the ruins of a city destroyed by kaiju. Unfortunately, it seems that the strain of being a loyal sequel and trying to be its own thing was too much for Uprising, as it tears itself apart in the attempt and leaves bare the skeleton of the decent actioner that could have been. So the sequel, Pacific Rim Uprising, was never going to feel quite like the singular vision of del Toro's work, but it did still have an opportunity to build its own brand of kaiju-sized fun on the foundation del Toro laid.
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Yes, the notion of giant monsters fighting giant robots with modern special effects is a head-slappingly awesome idea that a lot of creatives could do something with, but what elevates Pacific Rim is the gothic atmosphere and the rich internal mythology that justifies the metal-on-monster fisticuffs, largely the product of del Toro's writing and direction. A sequel to Pacific Rim without Guillermo del Toro's contribution was always going to be in danger of being a load of bull.