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Pacific Rim

2013

Guillermo del Toro

Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day ...

6.0

43,426

Sci-Fi. Action When great numbers of monsters, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, that are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Although assembled with consummate care and obsessive attention to visual detail, 'Pacific Rim' manages only fitful engagement and little in the way of real wonderment, suspense or terror"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A staggeringly loud, action-packed FXtravaganza that's both a numbing and pretty entertaining example of its movie species (...) it also really (...) has an attractive cast"	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"'Pacific Rim's' wafer-thin psychodrama and plot-generator dialogue provides little for the human component to get their teeth into (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"What pulls us over the rough spots is the mind meld between del Toro the artist and the child inside him. They both want to astonish us. Geeks everywhere, salute (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Pacific Rim', with its carefree blend of silliness and solemnity, is clearly the product of an ingenious and playful pop sensibility"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Del Toro has flooded the project with such affection and artistry that, rather than smiling nostalgically, you find yourself enchanted all over again (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Village Voice	"'Pacific Rim' is big and dumb in a smart way"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan 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 (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"It is a ridiculously entertaining (...) monster-robot movie that plays like a gigantic version of that “Rock ’Em, Sock ’Em Robots” game from the 1960s, combined with the cheesy wonderfulness (...) of black-and-white Japanese monster movies from the 1950s"	NEU
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"There’s no shortage of brains, brawn, eye candy, wit and even some poetry in this epic battle (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"It's closer to the hammering 'Transformers' aesthetic than expected. Yet the weirdness around the edges saves it from impersonality (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"The story's appeal is lost in all the fights between the monsters and robots (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"If this is the best we can do in terms of movies - if something like this can speak to the soul of audiences - maybe we should just turn over the cameras and the equipment to the alien dinosaurs and see what they come up with"	NEG

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