Pacific Rim Uprising Review Roundup
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Is the follow-up to Oscar-winning Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 monster mash any good? Did Daredevil’s Steven DeKnight do it justice? Why are we asking you all of these questions?
Yes, Pacific Rim Uprising is finally here, starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood and Jing Tian. It’s a direct sequel to del Toro’s Pacific Rim way back in 2013. The director recently won a heap of award for his The Shape of Water and passed the reigns onto Steven DeKnight to direct Uprising. Reactions have been…mixed, to say the least.
Let’s get into it.
The New York Times – Directed by the television veteran Steven S. DeKnight (“Angel,” “Smallville”), the movie balances amiable humour and standard believe-in-yourself bromides with better than average action sequences.
The Wrap – The main imagery in this movie is of large office buildings falling down neatly or getting clawed or scooped from the middle by these ugly and uninteresting monsters. If that’s your thing, step right up.
The Guardian – A procession of scenes featuring giant robots fighting giant creatures proved gloriously fun to behold, recklessly destructive and fantastically silly. But the rest of the film was hopelessly inert…
Forbes – …A glorified B-movie with a $150 million budget, a Saturday afternoon matinee piece of kid-friendly pulp fiction that is (barely) justified by Boyega’s lead turn and some warm character chemistry that makes the climactic blow-outs matter just a little.
Polygon – Uprising does even less work justifying its own internal logic than Pacific Rim, and even less work than that exploring its cast of characters. But if you can buy into Pacific Rim, you can buy into Uprising. And if you can buy into Pacific Rim Uprising despite its flaws, you’ll find it to be a fun, if not exactly filling, film.
The first film made a worldwide gross of $411 million, so Uprising has to make at least that to prove how popular big robot v big monster movies can be.
We’ll have a review for you very soon.