I really liked Pacific Rim 1, so I thought I’d like the sequel
and I gave it a try, but I didn’t like it as much as the first. Both
films revolve around that fact that kaiju monsters have emerged out of
Earth’s surface and as a counter measure humans build giant robots
called Jagers to fight them. There is a military branch that operates
the Jagers as there is special training needed to control them. This is
set something like 10 years after the first movie when they thought they
had fought off the kaiju for good, so the military is considering
closing down the Jager unit. Before this closure is fully authorized,
the kaiju appear once more and the Jager unit proves they are not
obsolete after all. This sequel stars the son of the chief Jager officer
in the previous movie. This itself is very strange because he was not
even mentioned let alone appears in the first movie even though in the
second one he says he was part of the Jager program and that’s a pretty
major plot point. This is not the only inconsistency between the films;
they vary from major to minor but as a whole it was enough to really
bother me. I think that it would ok if you hadn’t seen the first movie,
because it’s not terrible on its own but when you consider it’s relation
to the first one, it is. I can’t recommend it too highly but if you
haven’t seen the first one and don’t plan to, then it’s not a bad action
monster giant robot fighting movie. However if you have seen the first
one, even if it was years ago, I’d have to recommend just re-watching it
and skipping this one – it’s not worth the confusion and frustration.
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