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Jennie’s Review: Pacific Rim
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Letter Grade:
D+ |
The Good: The special effects The Bad: The writing |
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Cast & Crew: Directed by: Guillermo del Toro Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout, and brief language |
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The first thing you see when the movie starts is what appears to be a computer screen that explains that Jaeger means Hunter and Kaiju means giant beast. This is the explanation as to why the giant robots are called Jaegers and the giant aliens are called Kaijus. We are then guided by voiceover through the history of the very first attack in San Francisco, and then the second on Manila, and so on. Then the voice quickly explains the development of the Jaeger Program and how the giant robot warriors are piloted by 2 persons with their minds and memories connected. The Jaeger program seems to be successful, very successful, the pilots become worldwide heroes, and the whole situation starts to be taken less seriously because humanity now feels like they have the upper hand. Of course, this is not the case. The Kaiju apparently have the ability to evolve very quickly to adapt to and withstand the weapons used against them. We discover this as the voice is revealed to be Jaeger pilot Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) who is a co-pilot with his brother (Diego Klattenhoff) and they are called to defend the Alaskan coast from the newest Kaiju attack. Things do not go well for the Becket brothers and from then on, the supremacy of the Jaegers is no longer intact.
