Pacific Rim Uprising

*ing: John Boyega,  Scott Eastwood,  Jing Tian,  Cailee Spaeny

Rated: 6/10

Robots, iron monsters, wars, destruction and a whole lot of metal clanking through your eardrums, Pacific Rim No 2 is back for all the adrenaline junkies who draw their life and breath from unmitigated metal-ism.

The sequel to the 2013 edition, this uprising goes a step ahead from merely postponing apocalypse to taking the war into the land of the monstrous Kaijus, conceived and missiled by an equally crazy science junkie amid a whole lot of China town hitech gimmicks and mumbo jumbo.

The visuals and the sounds emanating from this relentless metal against metal war are engaging though the non-metal lovers would wonder what they are doing in the film where humanity saver Idris Elba’s son takes on the mantle, albeit reluctantly, to save the world as the skyscraping Kaiju’s get programmed to go amok all over the place.

The uprising, quite obviously targeted at New York, Hong Kong and other big-reputation cities of the world, is quelled with a lot of action sequences cooked up by CGIs and good direction which keeps the pace up even for sceptics who might have wanted more of humans than robots shaping the proceedings.

The film is as usual as all metal monster propellers are. For those, who love the big screen jam-up around a make-believe world of junkyards, transformer like fighters and renegades and an exuberant visual delight around all the cacophony of metal clashing with metal.

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 25 March, 2018