I've been waiting for this movie for years since it was first announced so I had extremely high hopes for Pacific Rim. Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim takes us to a world where the biggest threat to man is Monster, not just Monster, but giant sized city crushing Monster. In the wake of the attacks the corners of the world have banded together building behemoth robotic weapons to take out the giant monster threat once and for all. Monsters are continuing to evolve though causing the mechanical weaponized suits to be obsolete on arrival.
Right off the bat Pacific Rim is a fanboy dream as Del Toro refers to the Monsters as Kaiju, the Japanese definition of strange creature, which has been re-translated through pop culture as giant monster, or man in suit movies like Godzilla. Del Toro is a geek for this stuff and expertly transferred that love to film. From the very second this movie started I felt like I was in that world, as a monster destroys a city bridge I felt as if I was in that screen, at the base of the beast staring at it's endless form towering into the clouds; a magical moment heavily influenced by the insane 3D achieved in filming.
Anime fans and sci fi lovers alike will also see lots to love in the Evangellion-esque robots on display; every detail is rendered perfectly, they carry the weight with realism and the damage they endure/ dish out is to the scale one would expect and hope for. There is more destruction in Pacific Rim than in any weak attempt at Kaiju Hollywood has ever tried in the past. This is the Kaiju movie I've been waiting for, the monsters in design appear that they could be men in suits, but they move a whole lot quicker and more seamless than what us Kaiju fans are used to.
Pacific Rim is a royale rumble of Monsters and Robots, but lets not forget about the pilots and the people. Everyone has a story to tell as rich as the last and everyone's story comes full circle. Without being a full TV series given the run time; Pacific Rim from story to action delivers everything one could ever hope for in this scenario, hopefully there is an extended version or a sequel that gives time to further flesh out every experience Pacific Rim delivers.
I loved Pacific Rim, give me more of this world and these characters wether it's through animation, extended versions of the film, TV, comic books, and especially a video game give me more! Pacific Rim needs your help; see it ASAP, pay to see it, invite your friends, bring your mom, it's the only way to tell Hollywood that Del Toro is the man!
Pacific Rim crushed my expectations, you have to see this movie, and you're cheating yourself if you miss it on the big screen.
