Introduction

Hi, this is Keaton Marcus from Sweet and Sour Movie Reviews and today I will be reviewing the sequel/reboot or action robot flick Pacific Rim: Uprising. Years after the war between the monstrous Kaiju and the massive Jaegers finally end as the breach on the Pacific Rim is closed the world is in mass destruction, countries, cities, towns etc. the rebellious Jake Pentecost (John Boyega) whose father was killed in action as a great pilot bands together a ragtag team of pilots to stop a new threat of a new kind, Rogue Jaegers.

How Was The Cast?

Gathering an almost all new cast from the original Pacific Rim is this sequel giving John Boyega the main character, while Scott Eastwood and Cailee Spaeny take on the runner-up side characters, this may or may not be very risky, but going far from the original is not a good sign. Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi) is performing the supposed rebellious son of Pentecost, former and dead Jaeger pilot played by well-known actor Idris Elba. Taking that in Boyega does have some experience with the particular genre desperately trying to bring in good genuine laughs like in previous films; Boyega ultimately fails at everything, combining a truly awful story set-up and a unreadable plot, terrible narratives and script with unpleasant directing. Now however this may not be enough to cloud the hidden talent of Boyega fully, it does clean up after itself pretty darn well considering the actor you have just completely wasted. Newcomer Cailee Spaeny plays the runner-up character of Amara Namani, the jealous cadet that looks up to the professionals. Trying hard once again to add some sort of charm is Spaeny who really does not help quite at all. The character development was completely irrelevant never really connecting with any members of the cast ending up the first-time actress that continues this disappointing run of stiffness and unbelievable failure. Son of famous Clint Eastwood is another fresh actor right out of the barrel, Scott Eastwood (Suicide Squad, Fury and Snowden) plays the unwilling-to-help partner of Jake, Nate Lambert. What an outrage considering all the talent his father Clint had; This was really just unbelievably silly. Fake, unbelievable, stiff, powered by a drag-along narrative and jokes that really end up awful slapstick, this is the best description of Eastwood in this wasted and highly anticipated chance that maybe the son would adhere the talent of Clint Eastwood. This did not happen under any circumstances.

Quality

In this undecided battle of either sequel or reboot is directed by first-time filmmaker Steven S. DeKnight debuting his first feature film. Technically speaking previously much more experienced Guillermo Del Toro directed the original which was a major endorsement to action fans, this was an extremely risky and quite a stupid track to turn. DeKnight was a complete circus, providing a chalchoponus, noisy and confusing plot, a terrible development in characters and an awful sense of smarts added on to the film’s bloated running time. Not providing enough of the rock-em sock-em robot fights that were anticipated to cover up the dumb story, neither of which used the music well which kept the film trudging along in an actually quite boring way lacking sense of fun, smarts or good battles. Spending an insane amount on production comes the special effects weighing down at a approximately 150M, this was used and wasted for nothing but cut-rate sometimes even cheap looking special effects, considering all the good ways they can use that money this was a really big disappointment failing to create a original 3D environment around the audience. Or even generating any visual thrills to cope with the lack of smarts. Saying this the special effects were literally equivalent to your little brother smashing everything with his new Transformer toys. Ending up almost the same as the Michael Bay Transformers franchise as I said this treading and adhering too much to formula and relying on terrible special effects. Setting up the overall story with a crash making it an unoriginal boring installment to the robot franchise. This hurt the genre even more with a terrible storyline and plot that only consists of explosions and mass destruction.

Aging ‘Gypsy Avenger’

This film is really for nobody considering the overall quality, but what was the purpose of this very creation of the vile 1 hr 51 mins. Taking on the action sequences first, there were almost countless bland violent scenes that tend not to make sense, destruction, people getting stomped on, monster like things terrorizing cities and many explosions with robot-monster battles. Consisting of many frequent uses of goddamn, ass, boobs, butt, screw that, s..t and son of a b..ch this film obviously does not stray from many violent action movies. Despite no actual sexuality, there are many scenes with mild flirting and a woman kisses two men at once. (confusing)

Robot Slash-Down

Pacific Rim: Uprising 25% D-sour

Violence: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

Sex: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Language: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Age Rating: 11+

Transformers 45% sour

Violence: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆

Sex: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

Language: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Age Rating: 12+

Pacific Rim: Uprising 25% D-sour

Storyline: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Cast: ⭐☆☆☆☆

Role Models: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

Transformers 45% sour

Storyline: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

Cast: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

Role Models: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆

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