- Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure
- 111 min
- PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes41%Metacritic44IMDb5.6
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It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20245/10
Reductive or not, there's a lot to be said for eye-candy, and luckily for Steven S. DeKnight he has recruited John Boyega and Scott Eastwood into this CGI-fest that picks up from the, dare I say, far superior enterprise from 2013. It's "Lambert" (Eastwood) who has to knock his new squadron into shape as they prepare to fight an even more deadly army of "Transformers" - nope, sorry, "Kaiju" - as the portal between our world and that occupied by this thing's writers becomes open and extremely dangerous. What now ensues does slightly surprise if only because Boyega already had "The Force Awakens" (2015) under his belt whilst Eastwood had "F&F 8" to pay his manscaping bills. What are they doing here then, you may well ask? At least Cailee Spaeny was still starting out! The story hasn't an original limb in it's shockingly derivative frame, the dialogue is an hybrid of the banal and the gung-ho and the whole look of the film seems aimed at Saturday morning kids television - there's isn't even the obligatory mixed shower scene! It's clearly had some production money thrown at it, and to be fair it does look good - in a repetitive and familiar sort of fashion, but quite why we wanted or ne
Read the whole review on TMDB - Dark Jedion TMDB · Aug 20188/10
This movie is, to me, a quite nice special effects extravaganza. In some ways I actually liked this movie more than the first one. Sure, the underlying story is totally ludicrous. Come one, fighting giant monster with big clumsy robots that requires two people in some strange mind melt to maneuver is just ridiculous. Just send in a couple of fighter jets with some suitable devices that go boom and be done with it. But then, the purpose of these movies are to show off giant robot special effects and on that note they certainly deliver. This installment in the franchise seems to be more geared towards the younger audience as far as the story and the cast goes. Some people like it, some don’t. Personally I’m fairly neutral. As with the previous movie the story is not really that much to write home about. It has plot holes big enough to drive I giant robot through. I just had to say that didn’t I? Still, there are some parts of this story that I liked better than the first one. It is a quite straightforward story with clear heroes, clear bad guys. It does not really have any of that lazy stupid plot twist where some dumb ass politicians are trying to shut down the program to save money
Read the whole review on TMDB - Gimlyon TMDB · Sep 20185/10
Boyega makes for a slightly more engaging lead than Charlie Hunnam did in the original, (co-pilot Eastwood is merely **as** dull as Charlie Hunnam) but _Uprising_ has virtually the exact same ups and down as the first _Pacific Rim_. If you dig that movie, you'll probably dig this. If you hated it, you'll probably hate this. Me? I'm on the lower end of mixed, for both. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
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Cast
- John BoyegaJake Pentecost
- Scott EastwoodNate Lambert
- Cailee SpaenyAmara Namani
- Jing TianLiwen Shao
- Rinko KikuchiMako Mori
- Burn GormanDr. Hermann Gottlieb
- Adria ArjonaJules Reyes
- Max ZhangMarshal Quan
- Charlie DayDr. Newton Geiszler
- Madeleine McGrawYoung Amara Namani
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- Steven S. DeKnightDirector
- Steven S. DeKnightWriter
- Emily CarmichaelWriter
- Kira SnyderWriter
- Dan MindelDirector of Photography
- Lorne BalfeOriginal Music Composer
- Zach StaenbergEditor
- Guillermo del ToroProducer
- Jon JashniProducer
- Mary ParentProducer
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