![]() Most of the fun of Pacific Rim was in the unpredictable world building, and after that, in the kaiju-Jaeger fights. Giant monsters created by beings called “precursors” in another realm, sent through a portal to wreck our universe, and beaten back by giant robots called Jaegers, piloted by pairs of humans? Bring it on. But there was a bit more going on beneath the hood.Ĭo-written and directed by 2018 Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro, the first Pacific Rim drew on the traditions of kaiju and mecha, added some funky neural science, and was gross and weird enough to be both recognizably a del Toro movie and often a lot of fun. When the first Pacific Rim movie came out in 2013, the marketing made it look like another big, silly, ’splodey movie, in the tradition of the Transformers franchise.
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