Pacific Rim Uprising: short version

[tielan]

If you are going in expecting to see a variation on Pacific Rim in the sequel, then forget about it.

If you're going in for an action blockbuster involving Jaegers, kaiju, and rah-rah action, then, sure.

1. Mako dies. However, it's not a plot point to get Jake into the fight - he's already in the fight at that point - and she gets a key piece of information out. But yeah, she dies.

2. There is no mention of what Raleigh is doing in the present time, nor is there mention of what happened to Herc Hansen. (Or any mention at all.)

3. They've set up for another sequel, extremely blatantly this time.

That said, if Mako is a secondary role, there are two women with fairly important roles in the storyline, and one woman who feels like she should have had a more significant role but is framed in the cinematic release as 'confusing love interest' - maybe her scenes ended up on the cutting room floor.

Also: slashers who don't have a race problem will loooove Jake and his co-pilot.

I'd say that the things that gave Pacific Rim its soul and which differentiated it so clearly from the main breed of action movies, are by and large missing in Uprising. It's an action movie with a few character moments, rather than characters who've found themselves in the middle of the action.

That makes a lot of difference.

Comments

[raine]

I just started reading the prequel, and what happened to Raleigh is in there. ::sigh:: But Herc is nowhere to be found, and I'm already halfway through the book, so I'm going to pretend he and Raleigh are off in a cabin in an Alaska, la la la la swimming in the river of denial la la la.

I suspected Mako was going to die when I heard her role was wedged in after they started talking about the movie being about the second generation.