Pacific Rim

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Pacific Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro with a star-studded cast including Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko kikuchi and Charlie Day, is an American sci-fi movie depicting the battle between colossal beasts emerging from beneath the Pacific ocean and the entire humanity with the protagonist taking the vanguard. The movie was critically accled by audience and critics, with Forbes cling the movie to be a rare piece of English language movie. It garnered $400 million worldwide, while managing only $100 million domestically. Pacific Rim won the Hollywood film award for best visual effects. Riding high on the success of the movie, Guillermo Del Toro announced a sequel of the movie named Pacific Rim-2 in 2017. The movie is set in the year 2013 when human settlements along the Pacific coastline face the wrath and terror of Kaijus: gigantic beasts emerging from within a portal inside the Pacific floor. To confront the monsters, the Pacific-rim nations assemble on a massive project to build Jaegers: an equally colossal robotic war-machines operated by two pilots, whose brains were linked through neural bridge to offset the added load of operating Jaegers single-handedly. The Jaegers put up a brave front but soon turns miniscule against the Kaijus which grows more powerful. The Jaeger project is rescinded in 2025 with the proposal to build massive coastal walls to inhibit Kaijus' inflow, taking its place leaving only four Jaegers operational to be used till the coastal wall is completed. Retired Jaegers pilot Raleigh Becket is brought back into service by Jaeger commander, Stacker Pentecost, to detonate the Pacific portal by a nuclear bomb. The pair of Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori, Pentecost's adopted daughter, battles the Kaijus, defeating them but, the problem of the portal remains, with scientist Newton Geiszler later discovering that Kaijus are cloned war machines operated by aliens wishing to invade Earth. He also discovers that the ocean portal would open only with Kaijus' and that the detonation concept would fructify only by taking Kaijus along with the bomb into the portal. How the Pentecost team puts up a spirited show by destroying the Kaijus and closing the Pacific floor portal once and for all, makes the movie thrilling to watch. Pacific Rim (2013) was released in 2013 by Warner Bros. in DVD format. It has a run time of 130 minutes with a U/A rating.