Pacific Rim 2: Uprising

[Nutso]

[Nutso]

It's worth noting that Guillermo Del Toro did not direct this movie. Also I don't know the song in the trailer, but I hate it already.

[Graham Kennedy]

Yeah, terrible music.

But they seem to have put most of the fights in the daylight this time, and that was one of the biggest failings of the first movie.

Plus there seems to be intrigue and shenanigans going on, so we may get an actual interesting story to watch. Which was another of the biggest failings of the first movie.

I am cautious, but hopeful.

[Teaos]

Giant robots punch giant lizards. It's always going to be watchable.

[Graham Kennedy]

I more or less hated the first movie. It promised me giant robots fighting giant monsters and then gave me confused shadows moving around in the dark for most of the movie.

Also, didn't help that the first five minutes of the movie described a much more interesting story than the one it then gave us for the next couple of hours.

Whoever made Uprising seemed to have the same thoughts, and he gave me the robo-monster action I wanted! The action happens mostly in daylight, without shaking the camera around too much. And more amazingly, it's even true to the first movie - I expected them to be like "Oh, the alien things are just back now, because we need a sequel." But no, the story of this movie flows smoothly from where the last one left off.

The characters are all pretty much meh. None of them have much in the way of a character arc or development. Actually the one I liked best was the Japanese Mega-Bitch Corporation woman, just because she came closest to having some kind of character evolution, even if it was all just writer's games.

Of course, it's still utterly preposterous nonsense from start to finish. As was the original movie. The main difference is that this was fun and enjoyable preposterous nonsense!

Also 7/10, maybe even 8.

[McAvoy]

I honest never had an issue with the fights in the first movie as far as how dark or how the camera was.