When the pilots punch, the Jaeger punches. The Jaegers’ movements, you’ll recall, are facilitated by the little human pilots strapped into a cockpit in the “head” of the Jaeger. “Pacific Rim Uprising” spins its wheels for long stretches, as we see the cadets training, and we learn the tragic (and utterly unsurprising) details of Amara’s past, and Jake banters with Lambert, and Charlie Day does his Charlie Day thing, which is to repeat unfunny one-liners twice and at a high volume in a strained and unsuccessful attempt to provide comedic relief.Įventually we get a little plot wrinkle that leads to round two of the humans and their Jaegers vs. (Sidebar: How is possible none of these pilots ever refers to himself as a “Jaegermeister”? Come on! It’s right there waiting to be invoked.) Charlie Day is back as Newt Geiszler, the brainy and wisecracking nerd who is now working for a powerful and hmmmm just maybe dangerous mega-conglomerate that wants to replace human-piloted Jaegers with drones. Scott Eastwood is the handsome, by-the-book pilot Lambert, who’s basically Ice Man to Jake’s Maverick. This is Jake’s shot at redemption! What are the odds someone at some point will say, “Your father would have been proud of you, Jake”?Ĭailee Spaeny is the plucky street kid Amara, a genius hacker who built her own mini-Jaeger from leftover parts. Jake’s sister Make Mori (Rinko Kikuchi), a high-ranking military official, intervenes and gives Jake the option of avoiding incarceration if he agrees to return to the Pan Pacific Defense Corps (that’s the PPDC to you and me), where he once washed out due to a serious attitude problem. Bounding about with a giant chip on his shoulder because Pops died before he ever had a chance to impress him, Jake is wasting his life partying and stealing things - which lands him in jail and facing a prison term. Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), fallen hero of the great war. John Boyega (“Star Wars”) is Jake, son of the late great Gen. Yeah!Ī decade later, peace is the rule of the day and most of the cities destroyed in battle have been rebuilt - with the exception of a few metropolitan areas that remain in disrepair, with the skeletal remains of a few Kaiju still lying around like futuristic-looking Stonehenge monuments. The humans created gigantic rock-’em sock-’em robots called Jaegers, which were piloted by two-person teams who joined minds via a process known as “drifting,” and they took down those dreaded Kaiju. “Uprising” picks up some 10 years after the great war between the humans and the Kaiju, a pack of Godzilla-sized sea monsters that burst through a space-time portal on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and threatened to destroy the planet.
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