Pacific Rim is a very expensive, very lovingly crafted riff, a monster movie updated for modern times that never gets out from under the shadow of everything that inspired it. And in Pacific Rim the scene feels like an adoring but empty cover of everything that's come before it.ĭirector and co-writer Guillermo del Toro, whose boundless imagination has given us wonders like Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, dives deep into paying homage to his inspirations in Pacific Rim, and in doing so drifts dangerously away from the wild spark that has made his own work unique. It's a moment we've seen in countless war movies and alien movies and combinations of the two. It's part of the rally-the-troops speech before the final action scene, a moment where our heroes are supposed to screw up their courage and charge into battle with flags flying. As said by the masterful Idris Elba, the line works, but not nearly as well in context as it has in the trailers. That's just one of the many-but probably the best- overheated lines of dialogue in Pacific Rim, a movie that promises bigness and grandness with its every fiber and then strains so very hard to deliver.

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