Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Directed by

Steven S. DeKnight

Genre

action film, adventure film, science fiction film, kaiju, dystopian film, speculative fiction film

Country

Australia, People's Republic of China, United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 5,395 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Jake Pentecost, the son of a former hero, returns to the Pan Pacific Defense Corps to pilot giant robots against alien monsters known as Kaiju. He leads a new generation of pilots in a battle to stop an invasion ten years after the first war.

fast-pacedaction-packedexhilaratingepicnoisyflashytense

What happens

Pacific Rim Uprising is a 2018 American mecha monster action film, the sequel to Pacific Rim (2013). The film was directed by Steven S. DeKnight, and written by DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder, and T. S. Nowlin. The ensemble cast includes John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Jing Tian, Adria Arjona and Zhang Jin, with Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, and Burn Gorman returning from the original film. Set ten years after the events of the first film, Pacific Rim Uprising sees former pilot and Marshal Stacker Pentecost's son, Jake, returning to the Pan Pacific Defense Corps to stop a renewed Kaiju threat. Principal photography began in November 2016 in Queensland, Australia. Pacific Rim Uprising premiered in Hollywood, on March 15, 2018, and was released in the United States on March 23, by Universal Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics and was largely deemed inferior to the original film. With a gross of only $291 million against a $150–176 million budget, it was considered a box-office disappointment. It was followed by an animated television series in 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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