One of the reasons I love going to the movie theater is that it can show off a level of spectacle an average home theater can never match. No matter how big the TV screen, and no matter how many speakers, there's no substitute for what a movie theater can offer. Plenty of blockbusters attempt a level of spectacle that can do the big screen justice, but it's not simply a matter of bigger being better. There has to be weight and detail and a way for it to all come together that transports us into a world that's larger than life. With Pacific Rim, director and co-writer Guillermo del Toro has pushed the boundaries of not only increasing the size of the spectacle, but also in providing an imaginative premise where giant robots and giant monsters wrestle within a colorful, fleshed-out world. Unfortunately, it's a world where all of the style struggles to provide substance to the thin plot and flimsy characters. Set in the year 2025, humanity is in its seventh year of war against giant alien monsters known as "kaiju", which emerged from a portal deep within the Pacific Ocean. In order to fight back, the world banded together to create giant mechs called "jaegers" that require two pilots to link minds in order to operate machinery. However, the kaiju invasion is becoming overwhelming, and the jaeger program is on its last legs. Former pilot Raleigh Beckett (Charlie Hunnam) is reluctantly pulled back in by project overseer Stacker ...
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