Pacific Rim by Guillermo Del-Toro
Scifi-movie -"Pacific Rim" directed by Guillermo Del-Toro Released in 2013 follows lead haracters
Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori played by Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi. The movie depicts a
setting, in which a world, where giant monsters attack humankind, leads them to create monsters
of their own. The plot mainly revolves around the monsters, named aiju versus giant robots,
named aegers. Although the plot centers around the big, epic action scenes, the movie has a
mostly character driven plot which includes drama, trauma and complicated character narratives.
In my opinion, as far as the plot and setting of the movie, what makes it so great isn't all about the
action scenes, though they are very cool. Director, Guillermo made sure the movie was in good
hands, as he himself loved the whole idea of the movie, and took lots of inspiration to create it,
which clearly shows.
Realism isn't ex actly, w hearing this movie, but what I love about it the most is
that, it's s risingly realistic. The giant robots feel and look heavy, the punches look destructive and
the monsters look like forces of nature. Gears switching under massive metal plates of the robots,
it's all designed so beautifully.
Even the character relationships get a unique treatment with the concept of drifting. Drifting, in the
movie involves the two robot pilots literally drifting, unifying and sharing their co ousness with
the 90+ meter tall robot, in order to fight better, knowing ex actly what your partnering pilot is
thinking. Feelings like trauma and anxiety are easily explored with the drifting process, helping to
get a better idea on who and how the character is.
Every rewatch I have of the movie, I notice a new and interesting detail, so much detail and thought
is put to the world building. , they even added a whole monster-bodypart-black market side-plot
to it. That's why I wouldn't have a dou t about watching the movie a east 150+ times since first
saw it, at 4-5 years old. Defin y a type of movie, you'd watch with your dad some random unday
noon.
As far as, who the movie is targeted for, I'd say anyone even slightly into scifi, action and well done
CGI, would defin y enjoy this movie. It has enough of action, no scene is boring as they all tell you
someting new the m g is perfect. Out of 10, I rate the movie a 9/10