Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Rodney Wollam

8.0

Mar 23, 2018

Transformers with some thought actually put into it! Plus, the always scrumptious Scott Eastwood always welcome. Yowza!

This movie is, to me, a quite nice special effects extravaganza. In some ways I actually liked this movie more than the first one. Sure, the underlying story is totally ludicrous. Come one, fighting giant monster with big clumsy robots that requires two people in some strange mind melt to maneuver is just ridiculous. Just send in a couple of fighter jets with some suitable devices that go boom and be done with it. But then, the purpose of these movies are to show off giant robot special effects and on that note they certainly deliver. This installment in the franchise seems to be more ge…

Gimly

5.0

Sep 27, 2018

Boyega makes for a slightly more engaging lead than Charlie Hunnam did in the original, (co-pilot Eastwood is merely **as** dull as Charlie Hunnam) but _Uprising_ has virtually the exact same ups and down as the first _Pacific Rim_. If you dig that movie, you'll probably dig this. If you hated it, you'll probably hate this. Me? I'm on the lower end of mixed, for both. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._