Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

seen in regular format at a theater  (03/23/2018)


Was totally illogical with questionable science and tech. However it was a lot of fun.
The primary lead John Boyega (as Jake Pentecost) actually seemed like a stronger character than his acting in Star Wars.

Secondary characters standouts: Scott Eastwood (as Nate Lambert), Cailee Spaeny (as teen recruit, Amara Namani)Burn Gorman (as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb), Charlie Day (as Dr. Newton Geiszler) and Tian Jing (as Liwen Shao).

Jaegers were first and last line of defense against the Kaiju. Liwen Shao heads a company angeling to replace Jaegers with 2 pilots joined by "drifting" with automated drones.  Dr. Newton Geiszler is in charge of programming these drones.


The guys are right, this movie doesn't have the crazed style, enthusiasm and energy of the first one (which was directed by and written  by Guillermo del Toro). However it was a fun movie. John Boyega being much more heroic than his character (Finn) in Star Wars. It is funny that the one detail of this Jaeger vs Kaiju movie where it was the hardest to suspend disbelief, was the power and versatility of an iPad (or tablet?) for remotely reprogramming a complex entity. With the assistance of popcorn and  a matinee price, I was entertained throughout this movie.

This movie was fun. I saw it as a matinee in regular format (= cheap as I could see it). Yeah the biology, tech and even the big villain was less than coherent, but it was organized chaos. However, I did miss Guillermo del Toro's really out there enthusiastically out of the box/off the wall point of view. Ironically the one element in this Jaeger vs. Kaiju scenario upon which was the hardest to suspend disbelief was the connectivity and complexity of an ordinary-looking  iPad ( or Tablet?)  in a complex reprogramming stunt.