介绍:
Sci-fi action film Pacific Rim features overwhelming visual effects. And yes, when I say overwhelming, it means the visuals are good enough to make you overlook the film's other failings.
Written by Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham, the story is set in the 2020s, when colossal alien monsters pass through inter-dimensional portals on the floor of the Pacific Ocean to plague the human world. In response, the Pacific Nations pool their resources and build equally colossal humanoid machines to fight the behemoths. But as the attacks come in ever shorter intervals and the cost of maintenance multiplies, humans must find a solution to deal with the gigantic pest problem once and for all.
"Pacific Rim" offers practically everything I wanted to see but wasn't able to when I was still a boy. The Transformers series was good enough to grab boys' attention and inspire their interest, but was not always aired and besides, the episodes were too short. The Japanese Dinosaur Corps Koseidon TV series lasted long enough, but they were lame even in the eyes of an 8-year-old kid. "Pacific Rim" provides a real feast for the eyes and ears about giant machines and huge beasts, because unlike the Transformers film series where you can barely tell one robot from another amidst the non-stop action, the machines in "Pacific Rim" are of a more simplistic yet majestic design, and their movements are slower, and therefore more easily registered by the audience.
More importantly, the sensational imagery does not come all at once, but is spread across the length of the film and accumulates. Certainly, there has to some action in the background to wet the audience's appetite at the very beginning, but after that, the action scenes are carefully inserted between much softer parts of the story. Character development efforts are successful to a large extent. Lead actress Rinko Kikuchi is very memorable for her portrayal of a shy yet determined fighter, and supporting actor Idris Elba does a better job than male actor Charlie Hunnam, the latter is good at fighting but not so much at leaving other impressions.
Director del Toro believes this makes a good film for kids, because it speaks loudly about trust and crossing the barriers of color, sex, beliefs and so on. However, an American colleague of mine seems to disagree. As a parent, he thinks it is a good idea to protect kids from such intensive action films. Well, that's bad news for boys with protective parents who won't be able to enjoy a thrilling Kaiju movie that would definitely set their imagination free.
On a scale from one to ten, I give "Pacific Rim" a seven.
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