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Pacific Rim: Uprising
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySteven S. DeKnight
Written by
  • Steven S. DeKnight
  • Emily Carmichael
  • Kira Snyder
  • T.S. Nowlin
Based onCharacters 
by Travis Beacham
Produced by
Starring
  • John Boyega
  • Scott Eastwood
  • Jing Tian
  • Cailee Spaeny
  • Rinko Kikuchi
  • Burn Gorman
  • Adria Arjona
  • Max Zhang
  • Charlie Day
  • Karan Brar
CinematographyDan Mindel
Edited by
  • Zach Staenberg
  • Dylan Highsmith
  • Josh Schaeffer
Music byLorne Balfe
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures[1][2]
Release dates
  • March 15, 2018 (2018-03-15) (Vue West End)
  • March 23, 2018 (2018-03-23) (United States)
Running time
111 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150–176 million[n 1]
Box office$290.9 million[4]

Pacific Rim: Uprising[6][7] is a 2018 American science fiction action film directed by Steven S. DeKnight (in his feature-film directorial and writing debut), and written by DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder and T.S. Nowlin. It is the sequel to the 2013 film Pacific Rim and the second film in the Pacific Rim franchise, with Guillermo del Toro, the director of the original, serving as a producer. The sequel stars John Boyega (also making his producer debut), as well as 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 in the year 2035, the plot follows humanity again fighting Kaiju, giant monsters set on destroying the world.

Principal photography began in November 2016 in Australia. The film was released in the United States on March 23, 2018, by Universal Pictures (unlike its predecessor, which was released by Warner Bros. Pictures), in 2D, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, and IMAX. With a gross of $290 million worldwide, the film was a box-office bomb.[5] It also received mixed reviews; many critics considered it inferior to del Toro's film and criticized the scope, pacing, story, as well as the absent characters from the previous film and the underdeveloped new characters, though others praised the visual effects and performances of Boyega, Eastwood and Spaeny.[8][9]

Plot[]

It is 2035, ten years after the Battle of the Breach, in which the interdimensional portal created by the Precursors (through which they sent marauding Kaiju) was closed. Former Jaeger pilot Jake Pentecost—son of Battle of the Breach hero Stacker Pentecost—makes a living by stealing and selling Jaeger parts on the black market in the Los Angeles area. After he tracks part of a disabled Jaeger's power core to the secret workshop of fifteen-year-old Jaeger enthusiast Amara Namani, both are apprehended by the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps (PPDC) following an altercation between Amara's originally made small, single-pilot Jaeger Scrapper and the law enforcement Jaeger November Ajax. Jake's adoptive sister and PPDC Secretary General Mako Mori persuades him to return to PPDC as an instructor to avoid prison, with Amara as his recruit.

Arriving at the China Shatterdome, Jake starts training Jaeger program cadets with his estranged former co-pilot Nate Lambert. Nate and Mako explain that the Jaeger program is threatened by the Shao Corporation's new drone program, which offers to mass-produce Jaeger drones developed by Shao Liwen and Dr Newton 'Newt' Geiszler. Mako is due to deliver a final assessment to determine the approval of the drones at a PPDC council meeting in Sydney, but is killed by rogue Jaeger Obsidian Fury during an altercation with the latter and Gipsy Avenger, Jake and Nate's Jaeger, before she can. Her death prompts the PPDC council to authorize and deploy the drones immediately. Obsidian escapes into the ocean before backup Jaegers can apprehend it.

Moments before her death, Mako had transmitted the location of a defunct Jaeger production facility in Russia. Jake and Nate travel there in Gipsy Avenger, but Obsidian Fury destroys the complex and engages them in battle. Upon destroying its reactor, they find that Obsidian Fury was piloted not by humans, but by a Kaiju's secondary brain, which testing shows was grown on Earth.

When the drones reach their respective locations, their piloting operations are hijacked by cloned Kaiju brains secretly mounted onboard. The Kaiju-Jaeger hybrids simultaneously attack all Pacific Rim Shatterdomes, inflicting heavy casualties and incapacitating almost all Jaegers. Hermann Gottlieb and Newt try to disable the drones, but Hermann discovers that Newt is behind the attack when he commands the Kaiju-Jaeger hybrids to open multiple breaches across the Pacific Rim. Newt's mind has been taken over by the Precursors—who forged a link when he drifted with Kaiju brains in the previous movie—and orchestrated Mako's assassination to ensure his plan would proceed. Although Shao is able to destroy the drones, closing the breaches, three Kaiju, Hakuja, Shrikethorn, and Raijin, had already emerged and reached Tokyo. The team realizes that the Precursors' true goal is to activate the Ring of Fire by detonating Mount Fuji with the Kaijus' blood, spreading toxic gas into the atmosphere and wiping out all life on Earth while simultaneously terraforming the planet for Precursor colonization.

The cadets are mobilized while Gottlieb and Shao repair the PPDC's four salvageable Jaegers; Gottlieb develops Kaiju-blood-powered rockets, which launch the team to Tokyo. Although the Jaegers, including Gipsy Avenger, initially repel the three Kaiju, Newt merges them into a "Mega-Kaiju" using robotic parasites from one of Shao's factories. Three of the four Jaegers are destroyed, critically damaged or rendered inoperable, leaving Gipsy Avenger as the only one remaining. Jake and Amara, replacing the injured Nate, pilot it against the Mega-Kaiju, with Shao remote piloting Scrapper and aiding them by locating a rocket and welding it to Gipsy, which sends the Jaeger (with Scrapper holding on) into the atmosphere and free-falling back to Earth, colliding into the Mega-Kaiju and killing it; Jake and Amara survive by transferring to Scrapper. Furious at the Mega-Kaiju's death, Newt initiates his secondary plan, but is knocked out and captured by Nate.

In a pre-credits cutscene, Newt threatens that their victory is meaningless because the Precursors will keep sending attacks, but Jake rebuts that humanity will soon be the ones attacking the Precursors.

Cast[]

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  • John Boyega as Jake Pentecost, the son of Stacker Pentecost, the adoptive brother of Mako, and Nate and Amara's partners.[10][11]
  • Scott Eastwood as Nathan Lambert, Jake's estranged co-pilot and partner who piloted the Gipsy Avenger.[11][12]
  • Jing Tian as Shao Liwen, a businesswoman and technologist who joined the allies with PPDC against the Precursor Emissary.[13]
  • Cailee Spaeny as Amara Namani, a street orphan who created a civilian Jaeger, Scrapper, and Jake's partner after Nate is injured by the Mega-Kaiju.[11][14]
    • Madeleine McGraw as Young Amara
  • Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori, the former pilot of Gipsy Danger and the adopted sister of Jake who is now the head of the reorganized PPDC and becomes the Secretary General working with Hermann.[11]
  • Burn Gorman as Hermann Gottlieb, a scientist and officer who stayed and continued to work in PPDC with Mako.[11]
  • Adria Arjona as Jules Reyes, an officer of the PPDC.[15]
  • Max Zhang as Marshal Quan, a commanding officer in the PPDC.[16]
  • Charlie Day as Dr. Newton 'Newt' Geiszler, a brainwashed former scientist and officer in the PPDC who becomes the emissary of the Precursors after his mind is taken over by them.[11]
  • Wesley Wong as Cadet Jinhai, Vik and Amara's partner and cadet who piloted the Jaeger Bracer Phoenix.
  • Karan Brar as Cadet Suresh, Ilya's partner and cadet who piloted the Jaeger Guardian Bravo.[17]
  • Ivanna Sakhno as Cadet Viktoria, Ou-Yang's partner, a cadet who piloted the Jaeger Bracer Phoenix and starts out as Amara's rival.[18]
  • Mackenyu as Cadet Ryoichi, Renata's partner and cadet who piloted the Jaeger Saber Athena.[citation needed]
  • Lily Ji as Cadet Meilin.
  • Shyrley Rodriguez as Cadet Renata, Ryoichi's partner who piloted the Jaeger Saber Athena.[19]
  • Rahart Adams as Cadet Tahima[20]
  • Levi Meaden as Cadet Ilya, Suresh's partner and cadet who piloted the Jaeger Guardian Bravo.[21]
  • DeKnight cameos as a PPDC general on a recruitment banner.

Production[]

Development[]

In 2012, prior to the first film's release, del Toro noted that he had ideas for a sequel,[22] noting in 2014 that he had been working on a script with Zak Penn for several months.[23] In June 2014, del Toro stated that he would direct the sequel, and that it would be released by Universal Pictures, Legendary's new financing and distribution partner, on April 7, 2017.[24] In July 2015, it was reported that filming was expected to begin in November, though production was halted following conflicts between Universal and Legendary. As the sequel's future became unclear, Universal indefinitely delayed the film.[25][26] Still determined to have the film made, del Toro kept working and by that October announced that he had presented the studio with a script and a budget.[27]

After the sale of Legendary to Chinese Wanda Group for $3.5 billion,[28] observers noted an increased likelihood of Pacific Rim 2's production being revitalized because the first film was so successful in China.[29]

In February 2016, the studio, and del Toro himself via Twitter, announced that Steven S. DeKnight would take over directing duties, with a new script written by Jon Spaihts, marking DeKnight's feature directorial debut. Del Toro remained on the project as a producer.[30] Derek Connolly was brought in on May 12, 2016, to rewrite the script again.[31]

Casting[]

Cast announcements began in June 2016, with John Boyega accepting a role,[10][32] and news that Scott Eastwood was in talks appearing later that month.[12] Further announcements took place in September[14][13][21][15] and November.[33] A notable absence from the cast was Charlie Hunnam, who could not join the project because of his scheduling conflicts with King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.[34]

Filming[]

Principal photography on the film began on November 9, 2016, in Australia.[35][36] On December 14, 2016, the official title was revealed to be Pacific Rim Uprising.[37] In January 2017, John Boyega was photographed in his costume in Sydney.[38] In February 2017, three new Jaegers for the film were revealed.[39] On March 8, 2017, filming started in China.[40] The Battle of Tokyo sequence was filmed in Seoul and Busan in South Korea using drones.[41] Filming was completed on March 30, 2017.[42]

Visual effects[]

The visual effects were done by DNEG (Double Negative), Atomic Fiction, Blind LTD and Territory Studio, with Peter Chiang and Jim Berney serving as visual effects supervisors.[43] Production designer Stefan Dechant tried to push "the look and the feel" of the Jaegers, stating that while in the original film they resembled tanks, the new generation of robots tried to be more like a fighter jet, adding more speed and strength and combining them into one. The robots became more acrobatic and had silhouettes and color schemes that allowed them to become distinct and recognizable. Artists from Industrial Light & Magic, who made the effects in the first film, helped develop Gipsy Avenger, a "sleek and advanced" upgraded version of Gipsy Danger which DeKnight often compared to the USS Enterprise in being "awe-inspiring" given its status as the Jaeger flagship.[44]

Music[]

Main article: Pacific Rim: Uprising (soundtrack)

Composer John Paesano was originally slated to be writing the score for the film, replacing the first film's composer Ramin Djawadi.[45] However, in January 2018, it was announced that Paesano had been replaced by Lorne Balfe.[46] The soundtrack was digitally released on March 23, 2018, by Milan Records with the physical format being released later on April 6, 2018.

Marketing[]

Legendary Comics released Pacific Rim: Aftermath on January 17. 2018. The six-issue comic book series serves as a bridge between the two films.[47]

On March 13, Titan Books released Pacific Rim Uprising: Ascension, a prequel novel written by Greg Keyes.

Release[]

Pacific Rim: Uprising was released on March 23, 2018, in the United States, in 3D, IMAX and IMAX 3D, by Universal Pictures.[48] Originally scheduled for release on April 7, 2017, the date was postponed multiple times. The film was pushed back to August 4, 2017, then to February 23, 2018, and one final time to March 23.[49]

Home media[]

Pacific Rim: Uprising was released on Digital on June 5, 2018. A 4K Blu-ray, a Blu-ray 3D, a Blu-ray and a DVD was released on June 19, 2018.[50]

Reception[]

Box office[]

Pacific Rim: Uprising grossed $59.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $230.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $290.5 million, against a production budget of about $150 million.[4] Deadline Hollywood estimated that the film would have needed to gross $350 million to break even.[5]

In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Midnight Sun, Sherlock Gnomes, Unsane, and Paul, Apostle of Christ, and was projected to gross $22–29 million from 3,703 theaters in its opening weekend.[51] The film made $2.35 million from Thursday night previews, down from the original's $3.5 million, and $10.4 million on its first day (including previews). It went on to debut to $28 million, becoming the first film to dethrone Black Panther (which made $16.7 million in its sixth week) for the top spot.[5] It fell 67% to $9.2 million in its second weekend, finishing 5th.[52]

In Korea, the film ranked first on March 22, with 82,486 admissions.[53] In China, the film opened at number one, grossing $21.36 million on its first day[54] and $25.84 million on its second, for a two-day gross of $48.59 million.[55] It went on to have a debut of $65 million in the country, as well as $6.9 million in Korea, $6.8 million in Russia and $4.9 million in Mexico, for an international opening weekend of $122.5 million.[56]

Critical response[]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 43% based on 257 reviews, and an average rating of 4.99/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Pacific Rim: Uprising won't win any points for subtlety or originality, but it delivers enough of the rock 'em-sock 'em robots-vs.-kaiju thrills that fans of the original will be looking for."[57] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 44 out of 100 based on 45 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[58] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, with PostTrak reporting filmgoers gave it an overall positive score of 76%.[5]

Mark Kennedy of Associated Press called the film "cheer-at-the-screen fun" and awarded it 3.5 out of 4 stars, lauding Boyega's performance and his chemistry with Spaeny, while also commending DeKnight for using daylight instead of the rainy night settings of del Toro.[59] Ethan Sacks of New York Daily News gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, and was also positive of Boyega's and Spaeny's performances, comparing Boyega's character to Han Solo. However, he criticized the dense backstories of the characters, noting that, "a movie about massive monster-fighting robots doesn't need so much engineering."[60]

Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, saying: "The climactic battle drags on forever and looks like a high-tech update of a monster movie clash of the titans from a half-century ago. Even the sight of the residents of Tokyo scrambling for their lives as a giant lizard monster stomps through the city serves only as a reminder we're sitting through a glorified B-movie with nothing new to say."[61] David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a "C–", calling it a "generic and diverting sequel that corrects some of the original's biggest mistakes while also highlighting some of its more eccentric charms."[62]

Cary Darling of the Houston Chronicle gave it 1.5 out of 5 stars and called it the worst film of 2018 so far, being especially critical of its bland premise and pandering attempt at international marketability. Darling concluded, "Pacific Rim: Uprising is a lot like the city-crunching monsters it stars: big, loud and as dull-witted as Homer Simpson roused from a medically induced coma. It's a rote, paint-by-numbers blockbuster that would be offensive in its mediocrity if it also weren't so relentlessly uninspired," and "all that's left is the robot brawling and the marketing."[63] Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club called the film an "impersonal sequel," stating "simply put, it lacks its predecessor's curiosity about its world—its fascination with colorful backdrops and machines. Del Toro's movie [...] had an idealistic vision for its anime-influenced hobby-store pursuits [...] Pacific Rim: Uprising offers only its spare parts."[64] Similarly, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle noted that "DeKnight doesn't attempt to invest his monsters with majesty, the way Guillermo del Toro did in the previous film. With DeKnight it's just a lot of pounding, smashing and driving, purely functional."[65]

Accolades[]

The movie resulted in two nominations at the 2018 Teen Choice Awards. The movie was nominated in the category Choice Action Movie. John Boyega was nominated as Choice Action Movie Actor.[66]

Other media[]

Possible sequel[]

In October 2017, five months before the film's release, DeKnight stated "If enough people show up to this, we've already talked about the plot of the third movie, and how the end of the third movie would expand the universe to a Star Wars/Star Trek-style [franchise or series] where you can go in many, many different directions... You can go main canon, you can go spin-offs, you can go one-offs. Yeah, that's the plan."[67] DeKnight also talked about the possibility of a crossover with the MonsterVerse,[68] as co-writer T.S. Nowlin is a member of its writers room.[69] As of January 2021, del Toro has "no plans to return" for a third installment.[70]

Anime series[]

On November 8, 2018, Netflix announced Pacific Rim: The Black, an original anime series that will expand upon the story of the first two live action movies.[71][72]

Notes[]

References[]

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