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Pacific Rim

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Village Vidiot

I’ve been waiting to see this Guillermo Del Toro monster movie since it came out to excellent reviews. Giant subterranean, inter-dimensional creatures (Kaiju) are attacking the world from within, destroying cities They are fought by new robots, Jaegers, piloted by two people, linked to one another and the machines mentally. The climactic battle requires that humankind rely on a washed up pilot, a trainee, and an obsolete machine. Big scary monsters (bigger all the time), a multinational/multiethnic humanity (the pilots’ leader is Idris Elba whose accent kept shifting) and lots of cool action, but the plot line and dialogue rather bored me. I’ve always enjoyed Del Toro’s writing but not this one. I suspect this was not a movie to see on DVD. I’ve heard it rocked in 3-D

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