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LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) in Movies

Nov 20, 2019 (Updated Jan 31, 2020)

In short, Pacific Rim: Uprising is one of those sequels that does more of the same, but manages to take away something from what came before.

The first PR film is dumb silly fun - the movie equivalent of a kid getting his toys out and smashing them together.
Uprising is more or less the same, but a bit more on the boring side, with characters that aren't very likeable.

John Boyega heads up the cast, and he's ok enough, everyone surrounding him is a gallery of bland characters, I honestly can't remember any of their names, and I saw it earlier today!
There's no sense of urgency this time around. Del Toros first movie was silly for sure, but had a high stakes feeling to it.
Uprising feels like it was geared more towards children this time out, and it shows.

The plot is Hollywood sci-fi nonsense - something about the guy from Always Sunny being possessed by a Kaiju and infecting drones to attack the world and unleash a mega Kaiju - honestly, my attention wobbled more than once as you can probably tell. I could probably do with watching it again but I really don't want to.
Some of the action scenes were pretty fun soooo, yay, I guess?

Pacific Rim: Uprising is a film about monsters and robots kicking the crap out of each other - it shouldn't be this boring and forgettable, but here we are.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) Nov 20, 2019

Its just not the same without Guillmero De Toro directing, i know he is a producer on this movie, just its not the same. Plus were is the oringal cast???? Forgotten thats right and same with everything else forgotten.

Great review @LeftSideCut

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