The film begins in 2020 Alaska, seven years after the first Kaiju attack when the people of Earth that formed the Pan Pacific Defense Corps (PPDC), commissioned the 'Jaegers', a 25-storied tall robots to ward off the Kaiju attacks. This unique robot is operated by two humans, one to operate the torso and the other to operate the lower section of the robot's body. It works on the 'Drift' concept, where the minds of the two pilots need to synchronise.
Two Beckett brothers Raleigh (Charlie Hunnam) and Yancy (Diego Klattenhoff) initially team up to co-pilot the Jaeger which engages a Kaiju off the coast of Alaska. Their mission is unsuccessful due to Raleigh's cockiness which led to the tragedy.What follows is PPDC commander Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) strategising how to overcome the problem. He teams up Raleigh with a Japanese co-pilot Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi) and recruits Geizler and Gottlieb (Charlie Day and Burn Gorman), a pair of monster-obsessed scientists.
Positive Aspects:
Technically, "Pacific Rim" is an outstanding achievement from the director and his ace special effects team. To create the creatures of such magnitude and for the craftsmanship of bringing it to life, is no mean feat.The computer Graphics are so rich and out standing.
The cinematography by Guillermo Navarro seamlessly merges with the animated computer generated images.
The smooth quick edits by John Gilroy and Peter Amundson conspire to create a dynamic visual rhythm.
Negative Aspects:
Straight monster-on-robot action accounts for less of the film than you might hope, and the action is distended with all kinds of solemn character journeys.
The sea monsters are known by the Japanese term kaiju (strange beast), and the robots by the Germanic term jaegers (used here to mean "hunter").
The film appears to emerge from a weirdly indeterminate cross-cultural sludge, a homogenised, vaguely imagined zone in which the monsters are, for me, bigger but blander than in the classic Japanese monster movies of old.
Pacific Rim cheekily disses Transformers in the opening scene – slightly ungracious treatment of a film franchise to which it is indebted.
It could also have wanted to pre-emptively stamp its big metallic foot on the recent Hugh Jackman movie Real Steel, with a similar story about battling robots.
Verdict:
The movie is not up to the mark but a one time watch film.
