Pacific Rim: Uprising

"Rise up."

2018 1h 51m EN

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★6.1TMDB · 5,531

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Synopsis

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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.

“Rise up.”

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Cast

John Boyega
Jake Pentecost
Scott Eastwood
Nate Lambert
Cailee Spaeny
Amara Namani
Jing Tian
Liwen Shao
Rinko Kikuchi
Mako Mori
Burn Gorman
Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
Adria Arjona
Jules Reyes
Max Zhang
Marshal Quan

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Steven S. DeKnight
Writers: T.S. Nowlin, Steven S. DeKnight, Emily Carmichael
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$150M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 8 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Pacific Rim Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

CAST

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408+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Steven S. DeKnight, shot by Dan Mindel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Lorne Balfe. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Zach Staenberg shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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John Boyega and Scott Eastwood and Cailee Spaeny carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Steven S. DeKnight directs. Dan Mindel behind the camera. Lorne Balfe scores. Zach Staenberg cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$150M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Released 8 years ago.
3Part of the "Pacific Rim Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4408+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Steven S. DeKnight, shot by Dan Mindel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Lorne Balfe. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Zach Staenberg shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8John Boyega and Scott Eastwood and Cailee Spaeny carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Rise up.".
10IMDB entry: tt2557478 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 49 themes, including "mind control", "race against time", "japan", "army".
12Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Dan Mindel
Original score: Lorne Balfe
Editing: Zach Staenberg
Production design: Paul D. Austerberry
Costume design: Lizz Wolf
Makeup / hair: Rose Crocker
VFX supervisor: Jim Berney
Sound: Tim Walston
Stunt coordinator: Thomas Robinson Harper
Runtime: 111 min · 1h 51m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $150,000,000
Box office: $290,061,297
Return: 193% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Part of

Pacific Rim Collection

An American science fiction mecha action film series which follows humanity fighting Kaiju, the giant monsters set on destroying the world.

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Steven S. DeKnight

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Rodney Wollam2018-03-23
★ 8/10
Transformers with some thought actually put into it! Plus, the always scrumptious Scott Eastwood always welcome. Yowza!
Dark Jedi2018-08-02
★ 8/10
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. Sure the program is in some danger but this time it is due to a new program that actually sounds reasonable and could improve things. Of course said program gets sabotaged but hey, we, the audience, want our big silly robots right? The story is also mostly devoid of any stupid SJW crap or silly green preaching. The ridiculous crap about Dinosaurs being the first invasion and that we had terraformed the planet (global warming and all that stuff) so a second invasion was more likely to succeed was just an insult to the more intelligent among the audience and took off a star or two from the first movie for me. On the whole I quite enjoyed the movie. It delivered where it counts, that is in the special effects department. Loads and loads of special effects mostly involving giant robots and Kaijus slugging it out with massive property damage as a result. They are literally beating each other up with skyscrapers for Christ sake! The story, acting and everything else is adequate. Nothing more and nothing less. I do miss some colorful characters like Hannibal Chau (Ron Perlman) from the first movie. The characters in this one was more bland that has to be said. It seems like a lot of people on IMDb and elsewhere have their pants in a twist over this movie and rates it one or two stars out of ten. That’s just nonsense. A one star rating is for a movie that is truly awful in all aspects. The special effects alone elevates this movie above one star. You might not like the turn towards the younger audience or something else in the movie but it still does not make it a one star movie. Sure if you are not a science fiction or fantasy fan and do not care about special effects then I guess you could feel this is an awful movie but then why did you watch it in the first place? It is the second installment in the franchise so it should come as no surprise that the movie lives and dies by it’s special effects. I would say that if you like giant robots, monsters and special effects and don’t mind a fairly thin story aimed for the slightly younger audience then there is a fair change that you will find this movie entertaining.
Gimly2018-09-27
★ 5/10
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.