Synopsis
Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.
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Cast
- Charlie HunnamRaleigh Becket
- Rinko KikuchiMako Mori
- Idris ElbaStacker Pentecost
- Max MartiniHerc Hansen
- Clifton Collins Jr.Tendo Choi
- Ron PerlmanHannibal Chau
- Charlie DayDr. Newton Geiszler
- Burn GormanDr. Hermann Gottlieb
- Robert KazinskyChuck Hansen
- Robert MailletLt. Aleksis Kaidanovsky
Recommendations
- 100
The Telegraph
At first, watching Pacific Rim feels like rediscovering a favourite childhood cartoon – but del Toro has flooded the project with such affection and artistry that, rather than smiling nostalgically, you find yourself enchanted all over again. - 80
Village Voice
Pacific Rim is big and dumb in a smart way. - 80
Film.com
It is one of the better dumbass sci-fi action movies to come down the pike in quite some time. - 80
Total Film
A huge, CGI-heavy popcorner that still feels personal. Come for the epic monster-on-mecha showdowns, stay for the likeable humans. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
To kill time between action set-pieces, del Toro has done an above-average job of avoiding tedium via some flavorsome casting, passably interesting plot contrivances and, above all, by maintaining strong forward momentum. Unlike so many similar crash-bang action spectaculars, this one feels lean and muscular rather than bloated or padded; the combat is almost always coherent and dramatically pointed rather than just splashed on the screen for its own sake. - 67
IndieWire
Too in love with itself to ever totally go off the rails, Pacific Rim doesn't qualify as the first full-on dud of del Toro's career, but it's hard not to get the sense that something's missing. - 63
Slant Magazine
Guillermo del Toro doesn't rise above the obligations of staging a film of this sort as a multi-level video game, a stylish but programmatic ride toward an inevitable final boss battle. - 60
Empire
Del Toro is giving scope to a boyhood lust for mayhem, the multi-million-dollar equivalent of kicking over sandcastles and torturing insects. There is something infectiously juvenile in that.
