{"id":347,"date":"2013-07-16T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/?p=347"},"modified":"2013-08-25T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T16:04:01","slug":"pacific-rim-2013-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/intheaudience.net\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Rim (2013) – Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Pacific Rim” 2D
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For years, war has been raging between humankind and Kaiju, giant monsters that have come through a dimensional rift in the ocean.\u00a0\u00a0 Massive robots, called Jaegers, were constructed to defend humanity from the Kaiju, but have grown obsolete as humans seem to have been winning the war.\u00a0 But the Kaiju have adapted and become stronger.\u00a0 Now, the Jaegers are called into action one last time to stop the apocalypse.<\/p>\n

First thing, good on Travis Beacham and Guillermo del Toro for coming up with an original story.\u00a0 So very refreshing to see.\u00a0 The heavy influence of and tributes to classic sci fi, monster features, anime and manga is evident throughout the film.\u00a0 And really, this is a tribute film.\u00a0 Beautiful cinematography and CGI, impressive fight\/battle scenes (giant robots fighting giant monsters, enough said), engaging, if cliched, characters and good chemistry within the cast all contributed to a good experience.\u00a0 I enjoyed the performances by\u00a0Rinko Kikuchi, as Mako Mori, the talented rookie pilot; Charlie Day, as Dr. Newton Geiszler, the hyper-enthusiastic biologist; Burn Gorman, as Gottlieb, the voice of logic; Idris Elba, as\u00a0Stacker Pentecost, the tough-as-nails, been-there-done-that-at-a-cost-you-can’t-imagine, fearless leader; and, of course, Ron Perlman, as Hannibal Chau, the black market “parts” dealer.<\/p>\n

The dialogue, however, left a bit to be desired.\u00a0 A few too many quips and one liners, for me, cheapened an otherwise creative film.\u00a0 The story was huge, introducing a whole new dystopian world and the movie starts years into a war between humans and the monsters.\u00a0\u00a0 Honestly, for a film that was just over 2 hours, taking more time on the story itself would have been of benefit, even though the plot was straight forward, if predictable.\u00a0 This, like many apocalypse flicks, was formulaic but it really didn’t detract from the point of the film, which was giant robots fighting giant monsters.\u00a0 As it was, del Toro did a really good job of showing the story, drawing the viewers in to get them invested in the characters and delivering quality entertainment.<\/p>\n

I gave this film 4 1\/2 mixers for originality and, really well-freaking-done giant robots fighting giant monsters.
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