Click here to copy URL

Pacific Rim: Uprising

2018

Steven S. DeKnight

John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Jing Tian ...

4.8

8,790

Sci-Fi. Action It has been ten years since the Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns. Into this is thrust ex-jaeger pilot Jake Pentecost, son of the late Stacker ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] brings nothing new to the franchise except repetition (...) Lacking the stylistic flair provided by del Toro in the original, this sequel (...) becomes increasingly tiresome in its cliched plotting and characterizations"	NEG
United States	Nick Schager Variety	"This second entry in the franchise ditches, or downgrades, many of the elements that made del Toro’s original unique (...) Unremarkable"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"This bland sequel is only a minor improvement on Guillermo del Toro’s original (...) A generic and diverting sequel that corrects some of the original’s biggest mistakes"	NEU
United States	Lucy O'Brien IGN	"[It] is a loyal, if unremarkable, successor to the giddy original (...) Strong action but a disjointed plot makes 'Uprising' a fun but forgettable affair."	NEU
United States	Ethan Sacks New York Daily News	"Boyega is the best part of the movie (...) DeKnight shows he can pilot a CGI fight sequence as well as his predecessor (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"Sequel brings more monsters and robots, but no fun (...) 'Pacific Rim Uprising' has zero emotional pull"	NEG
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"A tedious second-rate sequel (...) [Boyega's] character is never more than a collection of clichés"	NEG
United States	Drew Taylor The Playlist	"'Pacific Rim Uprising' feels like a betrayal of everything that the original film set up and stood for (...) Everything looks visually cheap"	NEG
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"DeKnight deserves credit for making the large-scale fight scenes feel remarkably coherent (...) It’s easier to engage with the mayhem (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"Once you get used to the decibel level, the incomprehensible plot and the constant trail of destruction (...) it is more pleasurable than you might expect. (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	David D'Arcy Screendaily	"Some of the most fun in 'Uprising' comes from its elder statesmen, holdovers from 'Pacific Rim' who play for laughs (...) On the tech side, global war is less poetic than in 'Pacific Rim'."	NEU
United States	Todd Gilchrist Bloody Disgusting	"'Pacific Rim Uprising' is to the first film what the later Paranormal Activity sequels were to Oren Peli’s original: the desperate and unnecessary expansion of a beautifully self-contained world (...) Rating: ★★ (over 5)"	NEG

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.