Pacific Rim: Uprising 2018

Reviews (17)

1. P

   Patrick Willems 8 月 23, 2026

   I’m probably going to forget most of this movie by tomorrow, but I will NEVER forget the scene where we see Charlie Day is married to a giant alien brain

   979 10
2. S

   SilentDawn 8 月 23, 2026

   20 (Studio Executive Meeting) Jeff: Hi, everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend. I, for one, discovered the joy of anal beads for the first time. It was quite wonderful. George, how was the wedding? George: She didn’t show. Jeff: Damn. Pass on some of that leftover catering food to me when you get the chance, will ya? Now, on the agenda today is this new Pacific Rim treatment currently in development. Linda: I thought we were fucking dumping that. Jeff: We were going to, but we have great merchandising opportunity with these robot and monster things, so a plan must be put in place. Del Toro is mostly out of the picture. Brad: So, what’s the next…

   1,483 15
3. E

   Ellie ✨ 8 月 23, 2026

   all the kaiju possessing newt wanted to do was wear sunglasses indoors like an asshole

   271 1
4. M

   matt lynch 8 月 23, 2026

   Mighty nice of SyFy to release their new pilot to theaters!

   461 6
5. D

   davidehrlich 8 月 23, 2026

   The biggest difference between “Pacific Rim” and its perfunctory new sequel can be summed up in one word: expectations. When Guillermo del Toro’s original came out in July 2013, people were primed for something special. A universally beloved pop auteur mashing his love for Ray Harryhausen and otaku culture into an $190 million blockbuster about very giant monsters fighting very giant robots? It sounded like an urgent reprieve from the soulless corporate write-offs that defines the summer movie season, and not just a hollow, incoherent spectacle that felt more like an homage to Michael Bay than Ishirō Honda. As a direct result of that disappointment, “Pacific Rim Uprising” stomps into theaters with a very different set of baggage. For one…

   301 11
6. M

   Matt Singer 8 月 23, 2026

   Charlie Hunnam: “There will never be a less interesting incredibly handsome dude in a blockbuster than me in the first Pacific Rim.” Scott Eastwood: “Hold my beer.” Full review at ScreenCrush.

   969 7
7. A

   Alex IHE 8 月 23, 2026

   Trololololololololol

   797 16
8. A

   adambolt 8 月 23, 2026

   this is the worst thing humanity has ever done

   412 1
9. M

   Mari 8 月 23, 2026

   the kidz bop version of pacific rim

   646 8
10. D

    David Sims 8 月 23, 2026

    three eps of pacific rim the tv show cut together

    294 1
11. L

    Lucy 8 月 23, 2026

    maybe not a very good movie, but by the time one of the jaegers used their gigantic robotic hands to flip off a kaiju that had just been beaten to a pulp, i realized i was having too much fun in the moment to care

    663 5
12. B

    Bailey Parkinson 8 月 23, 2026

    It’s kind of like the first Pacific Rim movie, except this one is bad.

    601 5
13. C

    CinemaSerf 4 月 6, 2024

    Reductive or not, there’s a lot to be said for eye-candy, and luckily for Steven S. DeKnight he has recruited John Boyega and Scott Eastwood into this CGI-fest that picks up from the, dare I say, far superior enterprise from 2013. It’s “Lambert” (Eastwood) who has to knock his new squadron into shape as they prepare to fight an even more deadly army of “Transformers” – nope, sorry, “Kaiju” – as the portal between our world and that occupied by this thing’s writers becomes open and extremely dangerous. What now ensues does slightly surprise if only because Boyega already had “The Force Awakens” (2015) under his belt whilst Eastwood had “F&F 8” to pay his manscaping bills. What are they doing here then, you may well ask? At least Cailee Spaeny was still starting out! The story hasn’t an original limb in it’s shockingly derivative frame, the dialogue is an hybrid of the banal and the gung-ho and the whole look of the film seems aimed at Saturday morning kids television – there’s isn’t even the obligatory mixed shower scene! It’s clearly had some production money thrown at it, and to be fair it does look good – in a repetitive and familiar sort of fashion, but quite why we wanted or needed this is anyone’s guess. Straight to streaming, I’d reckon. Streams of what…?

14. P

    Peter89Spencer 4 月 5, 2020

    The only thing that went wrong with this movie was Charlie Day turned out to be the surprise villain!

    But….the none-stop action was very awesome.

15. G

    Gimly 9 月 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._

16. D

    Dark Jedi 8 月 2, 2018

    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 geared towards the younger audience as far as the story and the cast goes. Some people like it, some don’t. Personally I’m fairly neutral.

    As with the previous movie the story is not really that much to write home about. It has plot holes big enough to drive I giant robot through. I just had to say that didn’t I? Still, there are some parts of this story that I liked better than the first one. It is a quite straightforward story with clear heroes, clear bad guys.

    It does not really have any of that lazy stupid plot twist where some dumb ass politicians are trying to shut down the program to save money. Sure the program is in some danger but this time it is due to a new program that actually sounds reasonable and could improve things. Of course said program gets sabotaged but hey, we, the audience, want our big silly robots right?

    The story is also mostly devoid of any stupid SJW crap or silly green preaching. The ridiculous crap about Dinosaurs being the first invasion and that we had terraformed the planet (global warming and all that stuff) so a second invasion was more likely to succeed was just an insult to the more intelligent among the audience and took off a star or two from the first movie for me.

    On the whole I quite enjoyed the movie. It delivered where it counts, that is in the special effects department. Loads and loads of special effects mostly involving giant robots and Kaijus slugging it out with massive property damage as a result. They are literally beating each other up with skyscrapers for Christ sake!

    The story, acting and everything else is adequate. Nothing more and nothing less. I do miss some colorful characters like Hannibal Chau (Ron Perlman) from the first movie. The characters in this one was more bland that has to be said.

    It seems like a lot of people on IMDb and elsewhere have their pants in a twist over this movie and rates it one or two stars out of ten. That’s just nonsense. A one star rating is for a movie that is truly awful in all aspects. The special effects alone elevates this movie above one star. You might not like the turn towards the younger audience or something else in the movie but it still does not make it a one star movie.

    Sure if you are not a science fiction or fantasy fan and do not care about special effects then I guess you could feel this is an awful movie but then why did you watch it in the first place? It is the second installment in the franchise so it should come as no surprise that the movie lives and dies by it’s special effects.

    I would say that if you like giant robots, monsters and special effects and don’t mind a fairly thin story aimed for the slightly younger audience then there is a fair change that you will find this movie entertaining.

17. R

    Rodney Wollam 3 月 23, 2018

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