But of course, the Jaeger program stays afloat, and under the radar, and thus is able to return to action when new adapting Kaiju resurface to wreak havoc. The results are tragic and signal the imminent shut down of the Jaeger program. In 2020, years after the war with the Kaiju began, one such pilot partnership, between Raleigh Becket ( Sons of Anarchy’ s Charlie Hunnam) and his older brother Yancy (Diego Klattenhoff), take their Jaeger to fend off a new Kaiju. Pilots must have the right compatibility with their partner, otherwise their minds won’t work well together and the Jaeger won’t operate successfully. The pilots connect together through a mind meld called “The Drift,” becoming one entity with the robot, with shared memories, actions, emotions, and thoughts. As the prologue continues to show, pilots soon become international rock stars and the success of each country’s Jaeger becomes a source of pride and superiority. The program is run by stoic military leader Stacker Pentecost ( The Wire’s Idris Elba). Countries join together in creating the Jaeger program (‘jaeger’ is German for “hunter”), which involves the expensive and resource-draining creation of juggernaut robots that must be piloted by the brainpower of two people. A series of Kaiju encounters leave a handful of major cities around the globe in ruins. Pacific Rim begins with a lazily narrated, yet, engrossingly visual prologue that explains how our world was suddenly under attack by giant Godzilla-type creatures, Kaiju (Japanese for “monster”), that emerged from an interstellar portal in an underwater canyon between tectonic plates in the Pacific ocean (yes, in the Pacific Rim). As a science-fiction action movie, Pacific Rim delivers and then some. The effort is not lost, but takes a backseat behind the extraordinarily impressive battle sequences. The film makes a solid effort to tell an emotional human tale in the midst of a near-future world at war with giant alien creatures. This is the lasting effect of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim. A Jaeger strolls through the neon lit streets of Hong Kong in Pacific Rimįrom here on out, every time I gaze up into the fog-filled night sky that enshrouds the top portions of downtown San Francisco’s office buildings, I’ll imagine a colossal Kaiju smashing through the buildings like tissue paper, the debris raining down upon the dimly lit streets…and a Jaeger behemoth emerging through the haze, crushing the Kaiju’s skull in with a downward punch and throwing the giant beast’s body down the length of Market street. Finally, the summer blockbuster we’ve been waiting for! Pacific Rim is smart, compelling, and unleashes an exhilarating fury of battling giants.
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