Pacific Rim: Uprising Film Review

Finished watching Pacific Rim: Uprising, directed by Steven S. DeKnight and starting John Boyega, Cailee Spaeny, Rinko Kikuchi and Scott Eastwood. The film opens up ten years after events of the previous film as Jake Pentecost (John Boyega), the son of war hero Stacker Pentecost, is living in the ruins of the California coast, where he’s swapping valuable items for food such as old Jaeger parts. While trying to retrieve a Jaeger power core he notices that someone has got there before him and when he’s follows them he’s attacked by the person he followed, Amara Namani (Cailee Spaeny)who has built her own one manned Jaeger when the authorities find them after Jake was followed. After being arrested Jake finds himself re-enlisting into the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps to teach the cadets with Amara being their newest member thanks to the help of Jake’s sister Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi). Once at the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps, Jake is meet by Nate Lambert (Scott Eastwood) who he reluctantly works with in training the cadets and co-piloting Gipsy Avenger with him. While on a mission to Australia where Jake and Nate are accompanying Mako to a council meeting where a vote on the use of the new drone Jaegers will be at. While at the conference a rouge Jaeger attacks which leads to the death of Mako and begins the plan of something much sinister. Overall this was a good film as it delves back in the the world as the next generation of Jaeger pilots as the find themselves on the verge of becoming obsolete as the possibility of drone Jaeger allows for an interesting connection to the Kaiju threat. The action set pieces are great as there are some great camera angles used to show off the movements and attacks while the CGI looks almost realistic in places thanks to how well it’s been rendered. The character interactions within the film are good as they help to show the relationships each character has with one another however there is a lot of development for the character though as while some relationships do strengthen not may of the characters have their own story arc over the course of the film. 7/10.