Movie Title:
Pacific Rim
Strong Point:
1. Plenty of non-stop action from the start till finish at approx. 2 hours - Not much of breather.
2. Robot versus monster action aplenty -- slug fest of the gigantic proportion, best view it on biggest screen
Weak Point:
1. Plot is weak, storyline is weak and dialogue is quite horrible too. Luckily the acting was saved by Idris Elba's strong performance. I think the weakest is Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi whom is unable to show her emotions when she needed to and also she doesn't look cute which i think that was what the movie was suppose to be. Big action, a little cuteness in between and massive fights - ala anime style. I was rather surprise that the plot is quite predictable and the the dialogue was also weak. I always knew that director, Guillermo del Toro is a man of visionary especially on exotic designs, cinematography but this is quite a disappointment.
2. The action while extremely good, was a bit too much with rather repetitive kind of action movement. It was just a bashing of each other mostly. I would rather that some strategy was implemented by the Jaegers (robots) against the kaiju (monsters) which is much cooler. The monsters were a great fun to watch and at least there was some tactical attacking against the Jaegers especially on the bay of Hong Kong where 2 kaiju pitted against 4 Jaegers.
3. Most of the battles was in the dark, raining sea -- so its quite hard to see some of the fast action on-screen as the battle was fast and furious. I think some slow-mo would have been great and i would love to see battle done during the mid-day for some realistic damage carnage. In fact i can't really see most of the monsters.
4. Music was quite horrendous at times especially when there was some kind of a patriotic type music akin reminds me of Starship Trooper type.
Verdict:
I give it a 4 star despite all the weak points. Do see it at least once for the monster vs robot action. It was a rather fast non-stop action movie that i do intend to see it at least one more time.
