Week 2:Pacific Rim review

Working on his biggest budget to date, the director of Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth introduces an entirely new world to audiences with a robots-versus-monsters scenario that includes the same sort of nerdy details and Sci-Fi jargon as its over-complicated brethren, but under del Toro it all makes sense — and even better, he makes us care about it.The film takes place in the not-too-distant future, where a portal unexpectedly opens at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, unleashing a wave of monstrous, building-sized beasts called Kaiju upon the world. In order to combat the Kaiju , humankind overcomes its geographic and political differences to create Jaegers, robots of equivalent size that are piloted by two people via a sort of mindmeld called a “neural bridge.” The fraternal bond between Raleigh Becket  and his brother Yancy  makes them the best monster killers in the Jaeger program — that is, until Yancy is killed in battle, prompting Raleigh’s early retirement.Five years later, the Jaeger program lives on as a shadow of its former self: only a handful of the machines remain, and even fewer pilots. But when commanding officer Stacker Pentecost  turns up to re-enlist Raleigh for a final all-out assault on the portal in the hopes of saving humanity once and for all, the disillusioned soldier finds himself paired up with ambitious novice Mako Mori , whose own past traumas may prove to be the key that unlocks the program’s greatest partnership yet. Now for my opinions.The film is great, in fact it's my second favorite movie of the year, but it doesn't have the greatest story or the greatest dialogue, but it does have a very interesting world and likable characters and some great action scenes. Now speaking of the action scenes, here comes one of my only complaints about the movie is that two specific "characters" die to fast. My other minor complaint is i wanted this movie to be longer, but that's just me craving more. Now i hope that the film gets a sequel since it made over $407 million worldwide. Now that the Blu Ray is out, i recommend that everyone go out and buy it, you will not regret it, unless your inner child is dead.

Score: 9.5 out of 10