Pacific RimPacific Rim is, undoubtedly, the ultimate action-blockbuster movie. The fight scenes, even though incomprehensible on a few occasions, were superbly choreographed and just badass beyond words. The dialogue, while not anything special, was adequate enough to prevent viewers from having to dumb-themselves-down in order to endure it. And the Kaiju were just plain awesome.
However, Pacific Rim is nothing more than a blockbuster movie, and fails to escape the realm of forgetability.
The characterization was deplorable, and really focuses on two characters; despite feeding us the dynamics of other characters we never feel the need to give a damn about. Notably, the father and son relationship that is never explored, and yet concludes in a way that is supposed to evoke emotion. None is felt, and it ultimately comes off as unnecessary filler. And then we have the disappointing handling of the only main female character, whom has to prove herself worthy to stand with the men. ...I guess this is supposed to be a victory for women everywhere...? But what it really turns out to be is yet another cliché plot device that says less for women than just simply having a main female character start off with her own robot.
Although del Toro has the ability to create whimsical and elaborate worlds/environments for his movies...Pacific Rim never seems to take time away from its lazy story weaving to allow us to savor Pacific Rim's set up. Ron Perlman's character could've been the perfect vehicle for the audience to navigate through it all, but his appearance is brief and fails to deliver.
Spoiler
For a movie that clearly doesn't take itself too seriously, there is not a lick of humor to be found.
If they need Monster DNA to travel through the portal, how come the escape pods leaving it didn't have the DNA?
Cliché "He's not breathing, but my love will resurrect him ending"
But yes, it was, in fact, better than all three Transformer films.
5/10
