The best twist of all is the way the jaegers are operating, requiring two pilots to link their brains in a "drift" and operate the machine together, standing side by side and moving in unison- like a really complicated, really high-stakes version of Microsoft Kinect. Del Toro and Travis Beacham's script does a wonderful, efficient job of setting up this world, in which enormous monsters- called kaiju- have risen from the sea and humanity has built giant robots- called jaegers- to fight them. To its credit, what Pacific Rim gets right is what many other large sci-fi films garble badly. From Charlie Hunnam's stern-jawed hero Raleigh Becket to the robot fights to Elba's tough general-type (with the wondrous name Stacker Pentecost), it all feels familiar- even when it's exciting, it's an excitement you've felt before. Pacific Rim is a very expensive, very lovingly crafted riff, a monster movie updated for modern times that never gets out from under the shadow of everything that inspired it. And in Pacific Rim the scene feels like an adoring but empty cover of everything that's come before it.ĭirector and co-writer Guillermo del Toro, whose boundless imagination has given us wonders like Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, dives deep into paying homage to his inspirations in Pacific Rim, and in doing so drifts dangerously away from the wild spark that has made his own work unique. It's a moment we've seen in countless war movies and alien movies and combinations of the two. It's part of the rally-the-troops speech before the final action scene, a moment where our heroes are supposed to screw up their courage and charge into battle with flags flying.
As said by the masterful Idris Elba, the line works, but not nearly as well in context as it has in the trailers. That's just one of the many-but probably the best- overheated lines of dialogue in Pacific Rim, a movie that promises bigness and grandness with its every fiber and then strains so very hard to deliver.
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