Pacific Rim

"To fight monsters, we created monsters."

2013 2h 11m EN

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★7.0TMDB · 13,889

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Synopsis

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Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, Earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as Earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.

“To fight monsters, we created monsters.”

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Cast

Charlie Hunnam
Raleigh Becket
Rinko Kikuchi
Mako Mori
Idris Elba
Stacker Pentecost
Max Martini
Herc Hansen
Clifton Collins Jr.
Tendo Choi
Ron Perlman
Hannibal Chau
Charlie Day
Dr. Newton Geiszler
Burn Gorman
Dr. Hermann Gottlieb

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writers: Travis Beacham, Guillermo del Toro, Travis Beacham
Languages: Cantonese, English, Japanese, Russian
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$180M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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ERA

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Released 13 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Cantonese, English, Japanese, Russian.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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

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CAST

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

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Guillermo del Toro, shot by Guillermo Navarro. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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

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DIRECTOR

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

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Guillermo del Toro directs. Guillermo Navarro behind the camera. Ramin Djawadi scores. John Gilroy cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Cantonese, English, Japanese, Russian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$180M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Released 13 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 4 languages: Cantonese, English, Japanese, Russian.
4Part of the "Pacific Rim Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5334+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Guillermo del Toro, shot by Guillermo Navarro. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Ramin Djawadi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor John Gilroy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi and Idris Elba carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "To fight monsters, we created monsters.".
11IMDB entry: tt1663662 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1213,889 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
13Classified under 13 themes, including "monster", "dystopia", "giant monster", "pacific".

The technical file

Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro
Original score: Ramin Djawadi
Editing: John Gilroy
Production design: Carol Spier
Costume design: Kate Hawley
Makeup / hair: Jordan Samuel
VFX supervisor: John Knoll
Sound: Gregg Rudloff
Stunt coordinator: Branko Racki
Runtime: 131 min · 2h 11m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $180,000,000
Box office: $411,000,000
Return: 228% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Pacific Rim (2013)

Awards

Annie Award

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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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Guillermo del Toro

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GeekMasher2013-07-18
★ 8.5/10
First I want to say I liked this movie. I was surprised, I've been hearing bad reviews but I can't see big problem. The only issues was with the story. Apart from that the graphics where very good. The actors where okay (no major actors) and the baddies (no spoilers) where well thought out and graphically impressive (same for the robots). All in all a good movie.
Matt Golden2013-07-21
★ 9.5/10
When monstrous, building-sized creatures (dubbed "kaiju") hell-bent on destruction begin pouring out of an extra-dimensional fissure at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, humanity bands together to build titanic mechas called jaegers, each controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are linked through a neural bond called "The Drift." As the kaiju get stronger and the signs point to an all-out flood of the beasts, the fate of humanity looks bleak, and the surviving jaegers are brought together for one last-ditch attempt at saving the world. After an agonizingly long five-year wait, filled with some heartbreaking starts and stops (like the almost-weres of The Hobbit and At the Mountains of Madness), Guillermo del Toro has finally returned with his biggest budget and story yet. The Mexican master of fantasy returns to the toybox of his youth, drawing from the kaiju films of old (Godzilla, Gamera, Mothra, and the like) and anime to create the modern-day monster movie we didn't even know we wanted. I am a genre man through and through, and del Toro's films are filled with both the intelligence of the best of science fiction, fantasy, and horror and a flawlessly-rendered vision unique to him. His innate knowledge of what makes those outlandish stories truly matter to us is the backbone of his work as a writer and director, and his visual style is one that invokes true wonder. It's that wonder, that childlike glee that makes Pacific Rim work so well, and well it does work. This is a brawny, massive film made by a true artist and auteur at the top of his game, but while the technicals of this film could have been mounted by any number of working directors, the magic of Guillermo del Toro is that he infuses every film with himself. His love of the material, whatever it may be, shines brightly through every frame. It is this complete sincerity that makes his films such a joy to experience, and even when there are 250-foot behemoths slugging it out on the screen, there's not a trace of the disastrous irony or cynicism so readily supplied by other blockbusters anywhere to be found. The cast gamely comes to play, with Idris Elba (TV’s Luther) as Stacker Pentecost (one of my favorite character names of all time) as the stoic leader of the jaeger program, Charlie Hunnam (TV’s Sons of Anarchy) as former pilot Raleigh Becket, who suffered a tragic loss and has to be convinced to return to jaeger service, and Oscar-nominated Rinko Kinkuchi (Babel) as Mako Mori, another life touched by the kaiju and ready to serve up some righteous fury. If these sound like tried-and-true archetypes, it’s because they are. This is a grand, epic war film on a bigger scale than anything ever attempted before in that genre, and one of the strokes of genius from del Toro and original writer Travis Beacham is that we instantly establish and identify with the characters onscreen. There are so many ideas flying around (monsters, mechas, neural bonding, kaiju culture, and many, many more) that the broadly-drawn characters serve as a perfect anchor for the audience, immediately relatable in their inherent humanity. It seems that the mission statment of this movie was, in a word, “texture.” Del Toro delivered a visual feast unlike any other big spectacle films, with his insistence on it not looking like a “glossy car commercial.” Instead, every frame is filled with rain, snow, scuffs, smoke, debris, and other visual elements that reflect the weight and dimension of these cyclopean combatants. Unlike the ultra-glossy (and emotionally irrelevant) Transformers films, or virtually any other modern big-budget actioner, this universe feels dirty, grungy, and lived-in, like the original Star Wars trilogy. In fact, dubbing a film “this generation’s Star Wars” has been overused to the point of robbing the phrase of all meaning. But Pacific Rim feels just like that. It invokes those most elusive of emotions in the modern studio film: wonder, awe, and sheer enjoyment. Do you remember the awe you felt upon seeing a Star Destroyer creep onto the screen? Discovering a brachiosaurus on Isla Nublar? Laying eyes on the verdant fields of Middle Earth? This film has that. No one builds worlds like del Toro, and here he is, the master, inviting you to play in his sandbox with him. Grab your favorite action figure and hop in.
VolcanoAl2013-07-27
My favorite movie for years!!!I absolutely love this movie!No big story.A lot of action.The only bad thing is all the fights are at night & in the rain.A bright daylight fight would have really made it great!!!