Pacific Rim - Sunday Movie Review

Hola!
how's your weekend? Did you just lay on your bed? Became a couch potato in whole day? or maybe hung out with pals?
I went to Senayan City XXI with Codot yesterday to watch Pacific Rim. Highly anticipated!!
So, this is my first review ever. I've never wrote a review about a film i watched before but Pacific Rim makes it start!
So, enjoy :p

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PACIFIC RIM

Date Release : 11 July 2013

Director : Guillermo del Toro

Movie Length : 131 minutes

Pacific Rim is a 2013 American Sci-Fi movie directed by Guillermo del Toro. The story is telling about a war between Kaijus, colossal alien beasts who rise from an interdimensional portal on the Pacific floor to devastate human cities and elite machinery corps called Pan Pacific Defense Corps (P.P.D.C). Jaeger is a colossal humanoid warmachine built by P.P.D.C to attack on Kaijus using shared-memory system between pilot and co-pilot with kinectical moves. Stacker Pentecost (Elba), commander of the Jaeger forces, devises a plan to end the war by using a nuclear warhead to destroy the portal.

An endless war keeps begin after 5 years, Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) lost his brother Yancy on last Kaiju attack while theirs brain still connected each other and affected to deep trauma on Raleigh.

Raleigh called for next mission again to combat Kaijus and piloted Gipsy Danger (his last Jaeger), with potential co-pilot. He choosed Mako (Rinko Kikuchi) as his co-pilot after severals test developed by Stacker. Mako was a Kaijus attack victim which adopted by Stacker. 

And the war begins again central in Hong Kong.

2 Jaegers unit are ordered to destroy them but they failed and caused two corporates die. Gipsy Danger finally able to attack the last Kaiju.

The last 2 remaining Jaegers get a command again to destroy the internaldimension portal using Nuclear reactor.

Meanwhile, Newton Geiszler (Day) a scientist studying about Kaijus, assembles a machine allowing him to establish a mental link with a Kaiju brain fragments. The experience nearly kills him but he discovers the Kaijus aren't wild beasts, but engineered weapons fighting at the behest of a race of alien conquerors and their mental linked each other. With Pentecost's approval, he seeks out Hannibal Chau (Perlman), a major figure in the trafficking of Kaijus part in black market in an attempt to procure an intact Kaiju brain to repeat the experiment.

After Gipsy Danger kills both Kaijus, Chau and his team move into harvest parts. Chau realizes that one of the Kaiju is pregnant. The newborn Kaiju bursts from its mother and swallows Chau before dying.

Geiszler and his partner Hermann Gottlieb (Gorman) merge with the baby Kaiju's intact brain and learn the portal will only open for a Kaiju.

It was a pretty nice ending with severals epic war.

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Storyline 8/10

The storyline was epic and a bit unexpected. The movie concept was arranged really well especially the concept of shared-brains movement and gives us not only an ordinary sci-fi film and war between aliens-humanity.

but, I feel a little dissappointed with the ending. The ending has a smiliar plot as The Avengers film which put and deploy a Nuclear reactor into interdimensional world to close the portal. Eventhough, Pacific Rim already planned to explode the Nuclear reactor than The Avengers which explode it as Tony's initiative.

Acting 8/10

Both of actress doing a great job. But, honestly I need a more pop-up jokes. I suddendly in love with Hannibal Chau, lols.

Machinery and Monster Design 8/10

A SUPER GIANT WARMACHINE. lols, I've seen the meme of Jaeger on 9Gag which display the overall height of Jaeger. Higher than Gundam and Godzilla!!

I thought that Kaiju is a fusion between godzilla, dinosaur, and insane mix of transformer (._, )

Sounds 7/10

Sounds effect doing a great job. No noise, no lack of explode effect. but beforehand, I expected a theme-song will directed by a well-known theme maker in Transformer, but overall is good.

Visual Effect 10/10

CAN'T SAY ANYTHING. The visual effects just spoils my eyes so lovely <3

Really a great job for those visual-effect assistant!

Overall Rating 41/50

Storyline, machinery concept, design of Jaeger, Kaiju, and corps uniform are really good. A super great visual effect. They just need to give more pop-up jokes instead in serious situation :) also provide a better theme-song maker because the theme-song really give an impact on first appreciation. Good works!

Have a great Mon(ster)day!

Nyoron