Pacific Rim (4K Ultra HD BD) [4K UHD]

Giant mechas versus colossal extradimensional monsters - what's not to love? Okay, so maybe the concept sounds a bit campy, and certainly could have come off that way if handled the same way as a Syfy movie of the week. But Pacific Rim delivers pure cinematic fun. The special effects were amazing and certainly one of the great attractions of this movie. The design of both the giant mechas, the Jaegers, and the monsters, the Kaijus, was spectacular with great attention to detail. The look and movement of both seemed realistic for machines and creatures of their size.I thought the acting was solid all the way around, with lots of interesting characters thrown into the mix. The need to have 2 pilots controlling a mecha, while a bit of a contrivance, does help lend itself to more character interaction and emotional interplay. These aren't just soldiers fighting together on a battlefield (which itself is a strong bond) - these are warriors who have their very minds linked in order to seamlessly control a 200 foot tall death machine.Now granted you can't too tangled up in logic if you are going to enjoy this movie. For instance, the Kaijus always emerge from the exact same spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, so why not just have bombers on station ready to nuke the suckers as soon as they come through the portal while they are safely out in the middle of nowhere - well because then you wouldn't be able to make an awesome movie about giant robots fighting alien monsters. Also, the leaders of the world decide that instead of continuing to build more Jaegars, they should instead invest all their energy into building giant walls around civilization. Ignoring the fact that it takes your typical city traffic authority 5 years and 20 million dollars to fix a 5 mile stretch of road, why would anyone think a wall would be a better defense than giant robots. Clearly those in power didn't take the coolness factor into their calculations. Giant mechas always beat giant walls. Remember that if you ever find yourself on a city planning council.So as long as you can leave the critical analysis at the theater door (or save it for the internet chat rooms afterwards), and you are someone who enjoys an action movie full of epic monster battles, you are sure to enjoy Pacific Rim.

This movie broke even at the domestic box office (meaning no sequel) but did incredibly well overseas (hopefully meaning sequel). I was skeptical going in but as it starred my boy Jax from Sons of Anarchy (Charlie Hunnam), I gave it a shot.I was not disappointed.This movie is incredibly good. It features the best elements of what I liked about the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and Godzilla franchises when I was a kid, then added in the badassness of Idris Elba and an action flick and blended it all together with the incredible visionary talents of Guillermo Del Toro. I mean, what did you expect? His name is Guillermo of the BULL.My wife hates sci-fi flicks, and she hates Godzilla as well as MMPR. I'm not really sure why I married her, now that I think about it. Anyways. She LOVED this movie as did I and everyone who saw it. I'm pretty sure the only people who hated this movie are the folks who showed up thinking Pacific Rim was a Jacques Cousteau underwater documentary.I won't give spoilers of any nature but the plot is essentially monsters rise from under the Pacific ocean. They kick our ass. The President of the US was a Power Rangers fan so he has a bunch of Megazords built. We put two pilots in each. Megazords then proceed to slug it out with Godzilla. Except Godzilla brought his friends Mechagodzilla, Mothra and Ghidorah. So the Megazord has to call in the Dragonzord and the UN of zords.Its robots slugging it out with giant monsters.It's SAMCRO piloting a robot slugging it out with monsters so bad that Godzilla has nightmares about them.What else do you need? And, honestly for you film critics who want plot, well it has a solid plot. I'm great at figuring out a plot before it's revealed. This one was too fun and too functional to do so. Very, very well written. The robots fighting monsters was just a perk of a well written, well directed, and incredibly visually stunning film.Give it a shot. Seriously, you won't be disappointed unless you're a fuddy dud.