‘Pacific Rim’ Review- Tanmay Dubey

 

 

Starring:- Charlie Hunnam, Edris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Dey

Director:-  Gullermo del Toro

 

It’s the 2020s, and the Earth is under attack by Kaiju, colossal monsters (cross bred between a dinosaur and a creature two times of Godzilla!) they have emerged from a portal on the ocean floor. To combat the monsters, humanity unites to create the Jaegers: gigantic humanoid machines (a cross bread of ‘Transformers’ and director’s imagination reportedly from Francisco Goya’s famous painting The Colossus,) each controlled by two pilots whose minds are joined by a neural bridge. There is an ongoing war between humanity and these gigantic monsters. The story follows Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam), a washed-up Jaeger pilot called out of retirement and teamed with rookie pilot Mako Mori (Rinko Kukichi) in a last-ditch effort to defeat the Kaiju.

                   What begins then is a bang-bang, steel hammering into skull, story with one of the most stunning visuals in the recent past from Hollywood. While fighting the kaiju, humans realize that they are mutating and learning the tricks of the trade. Two crazy scientists then comes up with a bingo idea where the nuclear weapon has to be positioned at the center of the Kaiju world and the bridge from where they travel to Earth will be broken. (Heard this before?).

              While the movie does not offer anything new from a pure concept point of view-I mean how many times have you seen in the doomsday movies- Earth is battling for its survival and the entire humanity teams up to fight this evil and comes out victorious  but what it does offer is mind boggling action scenes. The director after reportedly pumping in a whopping 190 million US dollar has treated Pacific Rim as an earnest, colorful adventure story, with an incredibly airy and light feel, in contrast to the super-brooding, super-dark, cynical movie. The director has focused on big, beautiful, sophisticated visuals and action that would satisfy an adult audience and kids similarly. 

 

^{ENJOY  THE SOUND OF IRON BREAKING INTO SKULL ……..}

 

Score Stack Up:-

+ ive:-  Great Action and Visuals, Good Screenplay.

-  ive:-  may get a feeling that one has seen this scenario before.

 

Box Office, Paisa Vasool Rating:- 3 out of 5

Tanmay's Rating : 3 out of 5

 

 

 

 

Scores Classifications- 

(5)  Very Good, Must Watch 

(4)   Good, Should Watch 

(3)   Not Bad;

(2)  One Time Watch; 

(1)  On your own risk;