Nerds That Geek Movie Review: 'Pacific Rim'

Written by Scott Edwards

Forming a tight bond with someone is not an overnight process. Some people are able to hit if off without any problems, but for others it takes years to get comfortable with each other. This is important for any type of work you are doing and much more for a relationship. A strong bond cannot be broken by the little things that arise, but if the bond is not strong, any chance of working together will be shattered once the first little issue comes to light.

A series of events have lined up perfectly for the earth to be overrun by a group of monsters called Kaiju that are coming through a rift in space. Not having the proper weapons to take these creatures out, the world is able to band together and create one of the most sophisticated machines around; the Jaegers. With the equipment in place to stop the planet from being overrun, pilots are brought into the program and trained, but the biggest problem with these new machines is that it takes two pilots that share a strong bond, making them drift compatible. 

This is something that Raleigh and Yancy Becket have never had a problem with, being brothers and always having each other’s backs. Since they know each other so well and have always been able to get the upper hand in a fight, this made them the perfect candidates to run a Jaeger. But not everything is so easy for them, as the Kaiju monsters that are coming through the rift are becoming bigger, and the incursions more frequent. As the brothers head out in their overused robot to take out the newest threat, they find out first hand out much stronger the monsters are getting when Yancy is pulled from his pilot seat while still connected mentally to his brother. Having lost the only family he had, Raleigh retires from the service to keep his sanity and looks for work elsewhere.

Years later, the Jaeger program is starting to be phased out. The politicians do not see what the advantage is to keep funding the program when they are losing their war machines faster than they can build them. Thinking that there is a better alternative, by building large walls around the rift's borders, they will only keep the Jaegers active long enough until the walls are completed. Not being able to fight this decision to shut his project down, General Stacker Pentecost is trying to form a group of his own to fight off the Kaiju, while also trying to seal the rift for good. Needing to find willing and able pilots, Raleigh is called back into service and with a new Jaeger, he should be able to help mankind in their seemingly never ending battle against the Kaiju.

Giant robots kicking the crap out of giant monsters. What else could you want from a sci-fi movie? Nothing, that is what I can say about that. With plenty of characters to follow and all of the action that you could ever imagine, this movie delivers some great thrills along the way. Although with all of the characters you have, there are plenty of scene stealers, but that is not a problem when you have Ron Perlman in a movie, since every part he plays, big or small is just fantastic. I still don’t understand why the politicians would think a wall would stop these monsters and when seeing how tall it really was, I am still disappointed that they would not want it much bigger, since the monsters were trending that way. That is neither here nor there. It is a fun movie and it does not disappoint if you are looking for anything that has a ton of action, and robots beating the hell out of giant monsters. Happy Viewing.

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