(This month's theme-Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw
When we left off, we are in the far off future of 2025, where Kaiju, sea monsters from another world have terrorised the coastal cities of the Pacific. To combat this new threat, humanity is united, if only by it's xenophobia, to create powerful, if casually racist, robot armour. Our hero who saw his twin brother eaten by a kaiju, has never gotten over and reluctantly gotten back into the army base in Hong Kong.
So Rayleigh is reunited with his old pit crew and the newly rebuilt Gypsy Danger 2.0. Mako, the Japanese Girl who at first we think is just Pentecost's P.A., reveals she is a pilot but won't be 1 of the candidates. She honestly tells the American that the trauma has made him gunshy, but he responds that when she becomes a pilot she'll have to think on her feet!
FORESHADOWING!
We also have an establishing shot of the romance between the two. Mako tries to become a candidate but Pentecost mentions not going out for revenge. At the Mess Hall, Striker's Pilot tells Rayleigh that the mission is too important for washed-up pilots to make a haims of it!
The candidate trials is a martial arts/kendo tourney, which makes no sense since Jaegers are Giant Rock'em, Sock'em Robots and are too bulky to do the flips and kicks shown here. Sick of the 3rd degree Mako has on him, Rayleigh calls her out for a fight. so 1 sexual tension fuelled fight later, since it's being established that film has a smurfette Principle and the only other woman on base is married. Rayleigh is impressed but Pentecost refuses and still keeps shtum about why.
A cutaway shows Pentecost nose bleeding. Because of the Sydney attack protests are raging and safe zones for the wealthy are set up mainland.
Nuke drifts with a Kaiju Brain with a McGyvered Interface (it's made from a motorbike, a bellows, an Xbox and it's headgear are curling irons!) Pentecost gives Mako a child's shoe stating something about a promise he made when they first met.
The Trail Run of Gypsy Danger 2.0 is interrupted when Herman, as fast as his good leg can carry him, to tell Pentecost that Nuke drifted with a Kaiju Brain. Nuke tells him that he was right. that humanoid Kaiju-these "masters"-have cloned the beasts to colonise worlds. they tried in prehistoric times, but failed, but with ozone depleting and pollution, "we practically Terraformed the Planet for them!"
Pentecost wants nuke to drift again only with a full kaiju, so Pentecost wants his scientist to track down a black market dealer called Hannibal (Ron Perlman)
Meanwhile, back at the Loading Dock, As Expected, 2 people with nothing in common and traumatic lives have trouble controlling the Gypsy 2
Mako is suffering from "Chasing The Rabbit"-a massive and intense jog of memory-She Remembers the day-She lost her family as a child-Carrying around her shoe-When Tokyo was attacked by a Kaiju. Rayleigh still Psychically to Mako tries to reason but the girl activates the weapon systems and starts shooting at the shadows of her past. Luckily the pit-team disconnects the drift manually.
We cut to the Bone Slums on Mainland Hong Kong, as Nuke enters a Chinese Chemist, this time instead of endangered animals, it's the kaiju that are turned into "Medicine". Hannibal is an American Caucasian "Not my real name, of course, in this line of work. my first after my favourite historical figire and the surname after my favourite takeout place back home in Brooklyn" who either has golden shoes or golden plated Prosthetics, I can't tell, nor does it ever come up!
Chuck gets in Rayleigh's face but when he insults the girl he just met a week ago, a fight ensues. Pentecost grounds Mako and Rayleigh, but he knows about the "debt" she was talking about now: Mako is Pentecosts Adoptive daughter, who he saved from the Kaiju years ago, So naturally he's over-protective of her.
Each Lead confide their fears in a tender moment-BUT FUCK THAT SHIT!-It's the double event Herman warned about!
So all 3 non-American Jaegers set out into the ocean-
I wonder if the make Red Shirts that size?
Back in Hong Kong, Hannibal asks why Nuke wants a Brain, since it's just pure ammonia, when he rightfully guesses that the scientist drifted with a beast-he calls him a moron, and gets his men to rough him up!
Back in the China Seas, it looks like humanity is winning, until the Kaiju do something that no-one expected!
Use an electromagnetic pulse to disable all thing electronic, Hong Kong is now Helpless. China and Russia are killed. And the Commonwealth got the full brunt of the EMP. The Hendrixes are Dead in the The Water, minutes away from just being dead! Heracles, Chuck's dad and co-pilot has broke his arm, But the Gypsy crew are no longer grounded and rescues the Hendrixes.
Back in Hong Kong's bomb shelter the realisation that Nuke may have inadvertently shown the Kaiju how to kill humanity settles in as the other survivors throw him out as a sacrifice. Until the Gypsy arrives and uses a ocean liner as a baseball bat. and freezing it's stinger tail with CO2. But the Kaiju has another surprise, it can fly!
But the new Jaeger has a new feature, one that now has the kendo class scene now make sense. a foldable sword-OH COME ON! THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING FROM A ORIGAMI CLASS! If you want to give a robot a convincing giant sword, put a cowcatcher on it's gun arm like a bayonet. Anyway the Pterodactyl like Kaiju takes the robot out of the atmosphere but he cut it in half. But a drop from Terminal Velocity doesn't phase the crew in the suit-What is this Suit made of? Plot Contrivium? The other Jaagers got opened up like Christmas, Striker has a flat battery, but A drop from outer space? Scratched Paint Job!
The Gypsy Pilots return to a heroes' welcome. Mako is reeled by something the audience cannot see. Until the reverse angle shows us Pentecost's Nose bleeding again only heavily this time. On the Mainland Hannibal sends his crew to harvest the Kaiju, with Nuke there waiting for revenge.
YEAH GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!
We time-skip to a black-eyed Nuke and a grinning Hannibal, commending on how the scrawny scientist can take a punch. The Smuggler sends his crew into the bifurcated Creature,when they hear heartbeats. Soon, toxic afterbirth has awashed the street and a Baby Kaiju has being born. it's umbilical cord wraps around it's neck and it dies. Hannibal taunts the creature...only for it to rise up eat Hannibal and then die!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A
At least Nuke has his fresh Kaiju Brain!
Back at the Airbase, Pentecost tells Rayleigh that the early Jaegers had no radiation shielding. He has Cancer And it's terminal, if he ever gets into a Jaeger again, the background radiation alone in enough to kill him.
FORESHADOWING! AGAIN!
With Heracles injured Pentecost becomes Chuck's co-pilot
FORESHADOWING HAS ARRIVED!
Despite their Differences, Herman and Nuke decide to drift into the Kaiju Baby's Brain together.
Heracles says his final goodbyes to his son. The Scientists drift into the Kaiju Brian and see a factory floor of 1000's of Kaiju. The plan to nuke only the breach will only serve to radiate the seas and make it more habitable for the invaders.
The Reason Kaiju can escape the breach is because they belong there genetically and they will always return there now they have being developed to have children, much like a migratory bird. If they can skin a kaiju, the Breach could allow them to enter and attack the breach from the inside collapse the wall's between worlds. So the Jaeger skin 1, losing an arm in the process. The Striker sacrifices itself so the Gyspy can detonate it's nuclear reactor.
So let's Finish this!
Covered With a Kaiju Carcass, A critically damaged Gypsy enters the Breach. Rayleigh Jettisons an unconscious Mako's escape pod and detonates the reactors. The Breach has collapsed. The pods return to Earth and Mako who thinks she found Rayleigh's dead body, confesses her love, he wake up after playing a joke. All I can say is....KISS YOU IDIOTS!
Oh and this film may not suck!...But why have movie that's not really Godzilla, when you can have Godzilla?
If you are in habit of a movie and pizza night, this is good rental choice for you. That's not a bad thing, this film is quite enjoyable though predictable. Some Hammy acting is here to balance out the United Nations of Funny Accents being shown here. This film loses the human factor with the ending the 2 star-crossed lovers save humanity and all they do is nuzzle? COME THE FUCK ON?
CREDITS
Pacific Rim was reviewed, compiled and Edited by Eamonn Bermingham
With Music and clips from:
in Part 1
"We Got Explosive" by the New Sound Of London
In Part 2,
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
Price is Right
Pacific Rim is property of Warner Bros.
All rights Reserved.
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