Protraph
Lack of good storyline.
Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Skyler
Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
davidink
It is similar to the first Transformer movies but with more adrenalin and less finesse, humor & interesting actors. I just barely managed to get through it, with the help of the FF butoon at times. Do watch the sequel from 2018 though, it is much better.
Hobbes2
Considering that I turned it off after 20 minutes, I can't really give a full review. However, I feel compelled to warn others, who don't particularly enjoy mindless, illogical story lines, coupled with acting which rivals what one sees in a WWE commercial. If that sounds like you, don't waste your time on this movie. On the other hand, if you enjoy WWE, over the top special effects, and can overlook 2nd grade level concepts of science and engineering, you may actually enjoy this film. In short, I suspect it polarizes most people. You will either love it or hate it...there's no room for middle ground with this one.
Ersbel Oraph
This is the wet dream of a stalinist. there is no reason, although some emotions are built to mimic some sort of shallow logic. but the rest is everything about getting together to weave the better hive. how everybody and everything got together against an enemy built, like all western apocalyptic narratives, after the model of satan: chaotic, out of nowhere, and very powerful. and all the humans have to do is admit they are simply cogs in a bigger machine, of course, like all despots "for the sake of everybody".
IkhwanArif
I like Guillermo Del Toro; I think he has a good vision for fantastical tales that requires translating the imagination onto the screen. Despite it's obvious major flaws, Pacific Rim succeeds in delivering the visual spectacle of rampaging colossi. Quite good in fact, you can - if you wanted to - be charitable to film merely on the basis of the fight between Mechs and Monsters is so well done, that you'll forgive Pacific Rim for being cringey in many instances throughout the film.To be fair, the story isn't bad. Travis Beachem wrote a straightforward and generic story of humankind's survival that is so transparently Anime inspired that the film could've done well - and perhaps even better - if it was made by Studio Ghibli. However, the script is bad and as I said, cringey a.f. and the acting is just as bad, that if there were more scenes with the human actors, the film would've been tarnished beyond repair. It is the level of acting that you'll find in Live Action TV productions of Ultraman and Black Masked Rider.Thankfully, there wasn't too, too much of it and there are ample scenes where the Jaegers (them giant robots) were smashing Kaiju (them monsters), wreaking devastation in the sea as well as in the city. The Mechs themselves were impressive to look at, though there were some scenes that didn't just make sense (like why didn't they use the sword early on?) The Kaijus are by far the most interesting; with great biology and abilities that in all honesty, I wish it would have been thoroughly explored.But all in all, I'm happy with what I saw.
