It seems that Del Toro used all of the blank pages in his theatrical sketchbook to continue realizing his vision for a horde of be-tentacled horrors, which this reviewer is completely fine with. So many scenes in “Pacific Rim” feel like a lifelong genre fan’s sketchbook come to life. Impressive technical feats notwithstanding, the true draw of this film is something more intangible. It’s easy to remain skeptical of features that rely so heavily on computer generated battle scenes, but this film contains some of the most incredible creature effects in modern cinema. “Pacific Rim” represents a gargantuan leap in scale for Del Toro from a special effects standpoint.
The remainder of the cast owns their roles as a collective rogues gallery of genre standbys, playing second fiddle to the real stars of the show: the humanity-devouring monstrosities that are tearing the planet apart, and the giant-ass robots that punch them. Aside from Idris Elba doing his Idris Elba thing as the stoic yet sensitive captain Stacker Pentecost, and Charlie Day channeling his inner Rick Moranis for his performance as the wily scientist Raleigh Becket, no one character or actor stands out as particularly memorable. In the character department, there is plenty of personality but very little substance. It does, however, have all the time in the world for snappy storytelling and a rabid enthusiasm for the genre it leans on so heavily. If there’s one thing that’s immediately clear about “Pacific Rim,” it’s that it has little time for nuance and subtlety.
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In typical sci-fi fashion, the plan goes spectacularly awry, setting off two plus hours of sublimely absurd robot-on-monster action.
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When it becomes clear that the Kaiju are nearing full takeover, the last four Jaegers are deployed to Hong Kong to mount a final offensive and seal off the breach through which the Kaiju enter the Pacific ocean. The back story is laid plain in the opening moments of the film, chronicling a decades long war between the Kaiju, gigantic monsters that have risen through a breach beneath Earth’s oceans, and the Jaegers, the dual-human-piloted robots that were built to fight them. Straight out of the gate, “Pacific Rim” makes no excuses for the film that it knows it is. Guillermo Del Toro has thrown us excitable devotees a bone this summer in the form of “Pacific Rim,” a Kaiju-tastic summer blockbuster that hits the spot not in spite of its cliches, but because of them. While there is plenty of enjoyment to be dragged out of the big budget comic and light sci-fi films that pepper the summer blockbuster landscape, there’s a general lack of quality films for genre fans to sink their teeth into.
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Historically, the onset of the summer movie season means lean times for horror fans.
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