Fun movie for fans of the first, godzilla, rampage. Charlie Day knocked his role out of the park.

This movie is like the "Independence day: Resurgence" of the Pacific Rim series, but unlike Independence Day 2, there was actually a few cool and interesting scenes and ideas. One thing did not like too was the kids in this movie, (i'm going to have to compare it to another film) they are very similar to the kids from Transformers: The Last Knight. They don't add too much to the story, and they're not interesting characters. So they're just kinda...there. At the end of the movie they tease a third film, and in my opinion that one sounds way more interesting than the one I just watched.

Instead of rushing the production of this film, and ruining the chance to have a really great franchise written by somebody who actually seems to lile the story, considering he wrote it, they should have put this film on the backburner and waited for del Toro to come back from The Shape of Water to make this film. The storyline was weak, and the characters even weaker, although they were developed, and were not as memorable as they were in the first film, and the film itself just didn't make sense when compared to the original. Disappointing and almost as bad as Transformers 2-6.

With Steven S. DeKnight as director, you might expect something bold, violent, dramatic, cunning, and original. His Spartacus series was excellent in that regard. Uprising is different though, it's a simpler story with just a basic framework for the main show - the effects battles and scenes. You are challenged to suspend belief in many scenes, for the sake of moving things along and serving the next action scene. One scene in particular is bizarre. There's a scene in an elevator which is simplified to a bunch of "guys" are apparently shot and killed in the elevator by other guys, but we're not shown how this happens. "let's just skip over and make light of the point blank execution-style killing that just took place". Some of the fights and effects are enjoyable in the final battle. The agility of the robots is good. At points it's a bit like someone's mum took control of the script. In the end, Pacific Rim: Uprising tries to cash in, then makes movie. It's okay in parts, but a bit disappointing on main guts of story details. Doesn't need to be Blade Runner, but could at least try a bit more in that direction.