Columbusbuck
Transformers with some thought actually put into it! Plus, the always scrumptious Scott Eastwood always welcome. Yowza!
Pacific Rim: Uprising
- Action
- Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Adventure
3/21/2018
111
PG-13
Rise up.
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
- Director:
- Revenue:
- $290,061,297
- Budget:
- $150,000,000
- mind control
- race against time
- japan
- army
- monster
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- saving the world
- cadet
- military officer
- evacuation
- giant monster
- duty
- military base
- damage
- dormitory
- mad scientist
- portal
- rivalry
- sequel
- alien
- coming of age
- futuristic
- mecha
- giant robot
- mind reading
- creature
- robot
- scientist
- criminal
- one against many
- combat
- blizzard
- female fighter
- kaiju
- wisecrack humor
- transforming robot
- alien monster
- teenage hero
- mental link
- mass destruction
- humanoid robot
- robot suits
- female warrior
- aircraft
- laser beam
- mass evacuation
- mount fuji, japan
- computer hacker
- tokyo
- disapproving
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Cast
John BoyegaJake Pentecost- Scott EastwoodNate Lambert
Cailee SpaenyAmara Namani- Jing TianLiwen Shao
- Rinko KikuchiMako Mori
- Burn GormanDr. Hermann Gottlieb
- Adria ArjonaJules Reyes
- Zhang JinMarshal Quan
- Charlie DayDr. Newton Geiszler
- Madeleine McGrawYoung Amara Namani
- Karan BrarSuresh Khuran
- Ivanna SakhnoViktoriya 'Vik' Malikova
- MackenyuRyoichi
- Wesley WongOu-Yang Jinhai
- Levi MeadenIlya
- Rahart AdamsTahima Shaheen
Reviews
Dark Jedi
This movie is, to me, a quite nice special effects extravaganza. In some ways I actually liked this movie more than the first one.
Sure, the underlying story is totally ludicrous. Come one, fighting giant monster with big clumsy robots that requires two people in some strange mind melt to maneuver is just ridiculous. Just send in a couple of fighter jets with some suitable devices that go boom and be done with it. But then, the purpose of these movies are to show off giant robot special effects and on that note they certainly deliver.
This installment in the franchise seems to be more geared towards the younger audience as far as the story and the cast goes. Some people like it, some dont. Personally Im fairly neutral.
As with the ...
Ruuz
Boyega makes for a slightly more engaging lead than Charlie Hunnam did in the original, (co-pilot Eastwood is merely as dull as Charlie Hunnam) but Uprising has virtually the exact same ups and down as the first Pacific Rim. If you dig that movie, you'll probably dig this. If you hated it, you'll probably hate this. Me? I'm on the lower end of mixed, for both.
Final rating:½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didnt quite work as a whole.
Peter89Spencer
The only thing that went wrong with this movie was Charlie Day turned out to be the surprise villain!
But....the none-stop action was very awesome.
Geronimo1967
Reductive or not, there's a lot to be said for eye-candy, and luckily for Steven S. DeKnight he has recruited John Boyega and Scott Eastwood into this CGI-fest that picks up from the, dare I say, far superior enterprise from 2013. It's "Lambert" (Eastwood) who has to knock his new squadron into shape as they prepare to fight an even more deadly army of "Transformers" - nope, sorry, "Kaiju" - as the portal between our world and that occupied by this thing's writers becomes open and extremely dangerous. What now ensues does slightly surprise if only because Boyega already had "The Force Awakens" (2015) under his belt whilst Eastwood had "F&F 8" to pay his manscaping bills. What are they doing here then, you may well ask? At least Cailee Spaen...