To be honest, I
can’t find a reason to tell anybody to watch this movie. The critics’ rating
for this movie is too high (rated 72% on Rotten Tomatoes), which amazes me
because, after about an hour into the movie, I was so tired of everything going
on that I wanted to leave. It’s not the whole fiction that wore me out, but
everything leading up to what some might think is a grand ending just made me
want to sleep.
I advise anyone
who wants to watch this movie to wait and borrow it from a friend, as I regret
not only the time I spent seeing this flick but also the financial implications
that followed.
When you watch
movies like Real Steel (2011), which also featured robots being
synced with humans, you notice that the idea of using robots to fight can be
done in a fluid manner and not made to look stiff.
In the Hugh
Jackman movie Real Steel, the robots were controlled by humans too, but
the robots were human-sized. Here, in Pacific Rim, the robots are as large
as dinosaurs and require two humans to control them. The human brain is synced
with the robot’s control mechanism, and the two humans synced together for the
control of these robots have their brains simulating the right and left
hemispheres, which are mirrored by the robot’s CPU.
Now, these large
robots are really massive, making them stiff in their movement, which is
understandable but annoying. All the same, as the fight scenes were slow, it
looked more like the monsters were slower themselves, making it seem like it
wasn’t a fair fight from the start. The robots were meant to win.
Then there’s the
theory of world destruction, which is due to some mystic alien forces that have
created a portal and are sending these monsters to our planet to wipe us out.
The theory is cool (Spoiler Alert), but then the whole kamikaze thing to destroy
the portal at the end felt so much like the ending of Independence Day (1996).
Ironically, Independence Day (1996) was also about an alien invasion.
When it comes to
directing and acting, the movie had it. But to me, Guillermo del Toro had it in
mind to make a Transformers movie with a difference, so he just
pulled ideas together and came up with this.
As I said, I
won’t be watching this movie again, and I won’t recommend it either because I
keep asking myself: what is there to watch?
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