<em>Pacific Rim Uprising</em>: It's Robots vs. Monsters, Again
This sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi action film has little to recommend it past a charming John Boyega performance.
by David Sims
Mar 22, 2018
3 minutes
Let us consider the giant, person-shaped robot. Call them , or , or , or, in the case of the movie series, Jaegers: skyscraper-sized, sometimesnuclear-powered metal humanoids usually tasked with fighting something else that’s very big. What is it that appeals about such an impractical contraption, which can barely throw a punch in a crowded city without taking out a tower block? Perhaps it’s that very impracticality, and the sheer romance of building a mechanical monster
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