Mako mori husband8/12/2023 ![]() ![]() That said, he does throw a few different spins on things. Del Toro is having a huge amount of fun here and, unlike the ridiculously-over-convoluted plots of the Transformers films, knows it's best to keep things straightforward and simple. Few plot twists can't be seen coming from a mile away, but somehow none of it matters. The leading expert on Kaiju biology is a befuddled English scientist with glasses and a tweed jacket (and played by Torchwood's Burn Gorman), whilst Idris Elba's Stacker Pentecost (best movie character name ever?) gives inspiring speeches and is authoritative and stern but with a human side to him. The writing is not original and there are few cliches that Del Toro does not leave unexplored in the film. Unlike Michael Bay's Transformers films, the action is well-choreographed and relatively easy to follow, the stakes of events are clearly laid out and the human characters are sympathetic and well-acted. Like Michael Bay's Transformers films, there's a lot of giant robots in this film smashing stuff up. It is part Transformers and part Godzilla, only better than the recent big screen incarnations of either. Pacific Rim is director Guillermo Del Toro's homage to Japanese films and TV series about giant robots and huge monsters (it is dedicated to IshirÅ Honda, a legendary Japanese special effects artist, as well as Ray Harryhausen). ![]()
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