Simply A Masterpiece

Purely Joyful Movie!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

No cohesion, No humour (that I noticed) and No connection. I like a bit of fantasy and escapism as much as the next man but despite my continued (misplaced) faith in film makers like GDT this movie was not worth the continued "I'll give another ten minutes" syndrome. It's not the worst film ever made but it's not worth watching. I'm still wondering why the war lasted so many years when they could have ended it like they did anyway (at the end). Not 2 hours completely wasted because I've made up my mind not to give this type of trash another ten minutes for more than ten minutes.

Long, drawn-out and insubstantial. A kind of Transformers for a more intelligent audience, but that really isn't saying much at all. There is some semblance of a story, but you don't care a fig for anyone and there's absolutely no sense of jeopardy. Overall, almost pointless.

After watching the trailer first and from what I seen, it looked like a "CGI flick" to me. I have nothing against these kinds of movies IF there is a good story behind it. Alien life entering our world through a portal in the Pacific Ocean from another dimension? Really? NOPE...that's not my idea of a good plot for me to overlook a movie that's relying clearly on CGI action....if you're able to overlook something that is at least believable then this movie might be for you. For me, I just couldn't quite grasp the stupidity. Now IF that would ever happen in a movie....wouldn't you blow up the portal? I didn't even give this movie the chance to see if they did or not. If you want to find out.....carry on soldier!

I like Guillermo Del Toro; I think he has a good vision for fantastical tales that requires translating the imagination onto the screen. Despite it's obvious major flaws, Pacific Rim succeeds in delivering the visual spectacle of rampaging colossi. Quite good in fact, you can - if you wanted to - be charitable to film merely on the basis of the fight between Mechs and Monsters is so well done, that you'll forgive Pacific Rim for being cringey in many instances throughout the film.To be fair, the story isn't bad. Travis Beachem wrote a straightforward and generic story of humankind's survival that is so transparently Anime inspired that the film could've done well - and perhaps even better - if it was made by Studio Ghibli. However, the script is bad and as I said, cringey a.f. and the acting is just as bad, that if there were more scenes with the human actors, the film would've been tarnished beyond repair. It is the level of acting that you'll find in Live Action TV productions of Ultraman and Black Masked Rider.Thankfully, there wasn't too, too much of it and there are ample scenes where the Jaegers (them giant robots) were smashing Kaiju (them monsters), wreaking devastation in the sea as well as in the city. The Mechs themselves were impressive to look at, though there were some scenes that didn't just make sense (like why didn't they use the sword early on?) The Kaijus are by far the most interesting; with great biology and abilities that in all honesty, I wish it would have been thoroughly explored.But all in all, I'm happy with what I saw.