I'm a simple man: I like movies, TV, video games, and looking for funny pictures of cats online. I don't need every movie to be a masterpiece or a tour de force, I just want to see a giant robot hit a giant monster in the face with an oil tanker. Fortunately Pacific Rim delivers on that and then some. Pacific Rim takes place several years in the future where a war has broken out between man and monsters. Some sort of multi-dimensional rift has opened up at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean where giant creatures called Kaiju's (Japanese for monster) are passing through and destroying coastline cities. They were unstoppable, so all the world governments come together and developed weapons called Jaeger's (German for hunter). They are our only defense and work for a while, but things kept getting worse. More and bigger Kaiju start coming through the rift and the Jaeger's are no longer enough. After several years and losing most of the Jaeger's, the officials in charge decommission the program leaving only four of the robots active. The leader of the program, Stacker, has come up with a plan to end this once and for all. He calls in an ex Jaeger pilot for support on the mission. Mankind is losing this fight, and this plan really is their last hope. If it doesn't work, the Kaiju’s will tear the planet apart piece by piece. Let me start off with the problems I had with Pacific Rim. We've seen the story a hundred times, the world is ending and mankind puts forth one last effort to survive. The writing isn't great either, I've seen worse but wasn't impressed. In the movie two important roles in the movie involve some scientists, they were kind of cartoony and over the top. I also found the main character kind of flat, I don't think the actors did a bad job it's just his character wasn't very interesting. Now let's talk about what this movie did right, which is just about everything else. Visually, Pacific Rim is one of the most impressive looking movies I've ever seen. I'd put it on the level of Avatar and Life of Pi. The 3D is looks outstanding, probably some of the best ever put into a movie. It's one of the few instances where 3D actually adds to the movie. Now the reason that every single person will pay money to see this movie is for the fights, and they are like nothing you've ever seen in a movie. The scale of these fights is astonishing. A lot have people have compared Pacific Rim to Transformers, that's like comparing The Dark Knight to Batman and Robin. In Transformers the fights are super fast where the robots are doing flips and you have no idea what's going on and it's all in your face. In Pacific Rim the robots are big and powerful, but slow. They move how you'd imagine a robot the size of a skyscraper would move. And every time a punch lands it's like you can feel the impact. One of the most incredible aspects of the movie is the unimaginable scale. It's hard to get a since of just how big it is without seeing it for yourself. The most accurate thing I could compare it to would be the video game "Shadow of the Colossus." Everything is of unparalleled size, move with relative speed, and hits like a freight train moving at 1000 miles an hour. Watching this movie made me feel like a ten year old again, this is what I wanted Mobile Gundam to be like. You have to take Pacific Rim with a grain of salt. The movie is less serious than some of the directors other works and is kind of silly, but it's a hell of a lot of fun. Pacific Rim is the definition of a summer popcorn blockbuster; and this is the most fun you will have at the theater this summer. So go grabs some friends and go see it in imax (it's worth the extra couple bucks).
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