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In the middle of my Breaking Bad binge, I decided to take a break and see what’s on tv... this is what I found. And was it a horrible decision? Yes it was. I literally regret every second of it. It’s probably a movie where I was more interested in the commercials than I was interested in the movie itself. And I should preface, I don’t care about the first Pacific Rim either; it was way too long and it was a bit too corny for my liking. But what the actual fuck was this movie? I legitimately find it hard to say any nice things about this. I guess my only positives are that I like the Jager designs; they each feel pretty unique in comparison to the last movie. And I like the actors John Boyega and Charlie Day. I don’t like their characters or anything, I like their other work. Oh and I guess the movie isn’t over two hours long so... yay?
So my negatives... where do I start? I mean even though it’s not over two hours long, it felt like it; maybe the commercials didn’t help with that at all, but it felt like a total drag of a movie. It doesn’t flow AT ALL. It feels like a million things were thrown at the wall to see if something sticks. Like you have Idris Elba’s character’s son who is like the new leader of like this kid’s jager team or whatever, and then Charlie Day is now the villain, and Scott Eastwood is there too... doing stuff! There are fights! And they are pretty similar to Michael Bay’s Transformers fights; where it’s just semi-blurry computer generated effects smashing together like they’re action figures.
They feed these actors some of the most non-funny and uncool lines... and maybe this wouldn’t be a problem if Steven S. DeKnight knew he was making a stupid movie, but it’s kinda clear that everyone (maybe minus Charlie Day) was taking this movie pretty seriously. And when it was time for Boyega’s big speech before the climax, I couldn’t help but laugh. I genuinely think that a Pacific Rim movie can legitimately work, but in my opinion, it needs some sense of self-awareness of its sheer ridiculousness.
I guess my only other real complaint is that the music used in the movie was weirdly inconsistent; I feel like it couldn’t decide whether it wanted to be overbearing (like Tenet) or very subtle and purely complimentary. It was a really weird contrast between the two that kinda took me out of the movie. Overall though, I have nothing genuinely nice to say about this one. I like what DeKnight did for Daredevil on Netflix, and I will always love him for that, but this is a steaming shitpile of a movie. It doesn’t help that I watched it on tv (with commercials) and it didn’t help that I wasn’t a fan of the first one either. But after everything is said and done, I cannot really give this a higher rating than 1.8 out of 10. It just sucked on every aspect. I would rather watch ten Kissing Booth movies than this. So uh, did you watch this one? I hope not. Thanks for reading folks!
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