Pacific Rim (2013)
Do you like giant robots? Do you like giant monsters? Do you like aforementioned kicking the everloving snot out of each other? Then this is your jam. Director Guillermo del Toro often manages to bring wonderful worlds to the screen, but here he went all ten-year-old fanboy of all things Japanese/anime and it is lots of fun. Not a great film mind you, but an enjoyable timewaster. Somewhere in the near future, a fissure opens up on the ocean floor and giant monsters, quickly dubbed 'kaiju', start to appear and wreak havoc across several cities. Humanity comes together and cobbles together mech suits to fight the creatures, which does seem to do the trick. Our protagonist Raleigh does lose his brother in one of their fights, though. You see, you need two pilots to operate the giant mechs for some technobabble reason. But, as the number of kaiju-assaults drops, governments decide to phase out the program and focus on building massive coastal walls, because it is mo...
