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However, when a rogue jaeger bursts on the scene, Jake and his estranged co-pilot Nate Lambert ( Scott Eastwood) go looking for answers. They choose the former even though corporate titan Liwen Shao ( Tian Jing) plans to put the PPDC out of business with her drone program led by Dr. When he and fellow scavenger Amara Namani ( Cailee Spaeny) come across the PPDC’s radar after stealing and scrapping with authorities, they’re given a choice: join the corps or go to jail. Picking up ten years after the Pan Pacific Defense Corps (PPDC) canceled the apocalypse, we now follow Jake Pentecost ( John Boyega), son of famous hero Stacker Pentecost ( Idris Elba), and current scavenger of old Jaeger parts. More concerned with cool robot fights than a world overrun by monsters, Pacific Rim Uprising is serviceable enough on its own terms, but can’t help but feel like a pale imitation of the first movie. DeKnight, has no problem putting a charismatic lead front-and-center, but all the energy and design has been excised from the picture.

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Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 action movie features a rich and vibrant world that’s diminished by its bland hero Raleigh Beckett. Read the whole review at Rim Uprising has the reverse problem of its predecessor. That isn't to say this is a better film than its predecessor-I don't think I'd go that far as del Toro still enlisted a fun enough tone and built an entire world from which Uprising benefits-and Uprising maybe complicates things a little too much with its story whereas that initial film was so cut and dry in that aspect it was almost shocking, but the important thing is that Uprising is a fun if not ultimately forgettable slice of entertainment that plays to its B-movie strengths.

Meaning, while the first Pacific Rim was a little too self-serious given its story and a little more moody than might have been necessary, while more visually detailed to be sure, Uprising plays things a little more straight-forward and is exactly the kind of movie I would have loved when I was seven or eight years-old it's big, it's colorful, and it has robots fighting robots and robots fighting monsters.

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Uprising jumps a decade into the future and intends to reboot Pacific Rim the opposite way that Power Rangers movie did the original series last year. Of course, with this kind of sophomore slump effect weighing on the decision of whether or not to even continue the would-be franchise this second installment has come to us not from 'visionary' and now Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro nor does it star Charlie Hunnam or Idris Elba, but instead is co-written and directed by Netflix's Daredevil season one showrunner Steven DeKnight and enlists the fresh talent of Star Wars-breakout John Boyega as the son of Elba's fallen character from the first film. Pacific Rim: Uprising is a five year-later sequel that no one in particular was necessarily looking for, but is here given the amount of dough that original ended up making in China ($411 million globally on a $190 million budget, $111 of which came from China-almost $10 million more than the film made domestically).

This is to say that Uprising is so bombastically cheesy in its reliance on knowing exactly what it is and delivering on exactly what it promises that it's genuinely hard to fault the film for doing what it sells itself to be. This year, with Pacific Rim: Uprising what we have is what that movie might have been had it decided to go another route and play up the more cartoonish aspects of that super hero series. Rating: PG-13 (Sequences of Sci-Fi Violence|Action|Some Language)Ī year ago on this weekend a reboot of the nineties hit show Power Rangers was released and embraced a more moody and grounded tone than that of its source material. But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through cities and bring the world to its knees, Jake is given one last chance by his estranged sister, Mako Mori, to live up to his father's legacy. Jake has since abandoned his training only to become caught up in a criminal underworld. Jake Pentecost is a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity's victory against the monstrous Kaiju.

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