![]() However, she was ruled by emotions for better or worse and mixed in with her lack of experience, it made her vulnerable and human. Mako was smart, skilled, and a pure natural at piloting. If anyone tells me she wasn’t strong, I want to ask if we watched the same film. Of course, her relationship with Raleigh is the start of a mile long essay I could write about Mako Mori. It’s refreshing to see that two people can be close without making out at the end. Usually, that connection you feel meeting someone for the first time is often written off as sexual or romantic in films. And that was awesome because platonic male/female friendships are so rare in film. ![]() Could they just be best friends who just found each other? Perhaps. ![]() But no, it was left perfectly open ended and that made so happy. I kind of expected it due to how often that comes true. It could have been so easy for them to become lovers in some point of the film. It is very obvious from the moment they meet that there’s a connection between the two that makes them drift compatible. This is where the relationship of Raleigh and his new co-pilot Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi) becomes super interesting. This leads to a lot of sibling teams (such as the Wei Tang triplets of the Crimson Typhoon), father and son (Chuck and Herc Hansen of Striker Eureka), and possible lovers (Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky of Cherno Alpha). However, each pilot team has to be compatible with each other in order for it to work. Two pilots sharing memories and thoughts in space known as the Drift. Co-pilots are very important in the world of Pacific Rim since the neural load for piloting a jaeger is too much for one person to handle for very long. The main plot is Raleigh’s return to piloting the Jaeger Gipsy Danger five years after the death of his brother and co-pilot Yancy. I felt more drawn in and intrigued in this universe than I do for most TV shows, and I was only there for two hours and eleven minutes.Īfter the intro, the film splits off into two plots that weave with each other and come together in the end. del Toro created this wonderfully lush universe with strong, interesting characters. The intro we’re given for the film also gives us an intro the beautiful balance this film has: it manages to be cerebral and emotional while still giving plenty of the robot/monster beat ’em up that we were promised. This part could have been boring or rushed, but the way its played off by showing the hero worship of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps and then quickly contrasting it with the new reality of the ever evolving kaiju, we come to a better understanding of the drastic shift five years later. The kaiju, the Jaeger program and how they are viewed, and our introduction to Marshall Stacker Pentecost (played by Idris Elba) and Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam), who are two of our three perspective characters. The first ten minutes or so of the film get the basics of this universe out of the way. When Pacific Rim opens, we’re right on board the exposition train. I really do want to encourage people to see this film since it’s pretty much the best summer blockbuster to come out in a while. Some SPOILERS exist below the picture, but I’ll try to keep them to a minimum. The World. Yes, it was even more fun than Cabin in the Woods. ![]() That’s generally how I feel about anyone who picked other films to watch this past weekend besides Pacific Rim. Because it probably was the most fun I’ve had at the movies since Scott Pilgrim vs. That quote was, “Anyone that didn’t see this is a motherfucker.” He even signed a fan’s blu ray with that. There’s a rather infamous Guillermo del Toro quote from about three years ago when Scott Pilgrim vs. ![]()
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