"Pacific Rim: Cancelling the Apocalypse is so much fun..."

"Pacific Rim: Cancelling the Apocalypse is so much fun..."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.

Plot:

For years the Jaegers (Gigantic Robots) were humanities only defense against the Kaiju( Gigantic monsters) who came from a dimensional breach below the Pacific and who's attacks have been constantly growing in strenght as the years go by...Now after predicting that the Kaiju's would be making their final push to end all of human existence and the Jaeger program almost wiped out we find ourselves finding new heroes and old ones to make a stand...

The Good:

- First I'd like to say that Manila was the 2nd major city to be attacked and I'm sure that scored quite well with the pinoy fans big time...It makes me wonder what we would do if we ever were attacked by a Kaiju...our tanks and planes are old...really old.

- The whole feel of the movie was a mix of Evangelion and Godzilla and Ultraman!!...Cities being destroyed , monsters trampling everything , Humanoid robots stopping them...Yup...It looks like Ultraman on steroids!!! Yeah!!!!

- The whole category system...The Kaiju's sound like storms...Oh no its a category 4!!! Oh no its a category 5!!! Expect moderate to heavy rain showers of Kaiju guts and brain matter...

- This was how robots should be treated...Majestic...Towering...Colossal things that are full of power...minimal parts that don't need all of their screws and hoods transforming...

- The cinematography here is superb...all the fight scenes deserve such high praise...

- The scene where Beckett reached the Alaskan shoreline with his Jaeger and it collapsed...I nominate that for best Robot Collapse scene...if there will ever be such a thing...

- "Today we are cancelling the apocalypse..." that is going to be my battle cry for awhile...too bad that when Idris Elba was uttering it someone decided that they could'nt hold their bladder anymore and decided to pass by...ruining the moment...

- The self sacrificing and her worship that abounds in the film...beautiful...

The Bad:

- The loss of so much Jaegers and the insistence of the world that a wall could be the only protection against those big monsters...

- The short sightedness of world leaders in scrapping the Jaeger program.

- It took them 5 years to unlock the puzzle of the breach...they needed to have a Kaiju genetic code..they needed a mindmeld to find that out...

The Ugly:

- Ron Perlman coming out of that baby Kaiju's belly at the end of the movie , I like the guy but he still is ugly hahahaha....

- It didn't seem right not to see a Japanese as a pilot of one of these Jaegers because Mecha is pretty much their territory when it comes to story telling and style. Out of all the babelicious Japanese to put on the screen they had to choose Miss Bangs as Mako. Her acting was great but they could have put in more of an eye candy in there. Come on , there are tons to pick from!

Conclusion:

This has got to be the best Robot/Giant Creature film that I have seen in a long time...It didn;t rate high on the Aven meter...she was only behaved on the fighting scenes and I must admit after seeing the Jaegers in action you can't help but wish the movie was just more of them and less talking but the build up was still nicely paced...Now that the breach is closed would there be a part 2?