Pacific Rim
Giant robots going head to head with giant monsters.
Visually and erm, actionery, actioni... actionif...
actionally, it's everything Transformers and Godzilla want to be.
Story wise, a bit lacking... it's all about the 'bots striking a pose while they smash, and get smashed by, giant creatures with blue spit.
Idris Elba is best on show... as always he plays it very well.
Everyone else though, pretty wooden.
Especially crap British Soap Opera actor Robert Kazinski, who seems to allow his accent go from American to Australian to cod British to something that sounds reminiscent of South African to something I think he made up, within the space of a few lines of dialogue.
And I have no idea what kind of character the other crap British Soap Opera actor, Burn Gorman, was trying to portray.
If any other director had made it, it would be regarded as surprisingly good, maybe even decent, but from the likes of
Guillermo Del Toro? This feels a bit rushed in the writing department. I'd have expected a bit more from him in the story stakes.
Still, in a good way it feels like a throwback to the epic disaster films and monster features of the olden days... just this time round the SFX are absolutely outstanding and the action sequences are highly polished.
Simply a popcorn smash'em up... needed a little bit more in the writing dept. to make me really care about the characters.
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