Subjected to a pre-flight "neural handshake," the pilots are suddenly sharing brains, the better to command their robot. It's the mind-melding that occurs between the two pilots of each Jaeger-that's what they call the mega-robots that humans have built to fight the monsters rising from the sea. Pictures shows the Gipsy Danger robot battling the Knifehead monster in a scene from "Pacific Rim." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. This film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Happily, the plot is not convoluted (the script is by Travis Beacham and del Toro) and there's at least one really cool concept, called "The Drift." No, this doesn't involve land formations. Did we mention the crunching, smashing and groaning? Though it's made by an obviously gifted director and will likely please devotees of the genre, it ultimately feels very short on character and long on noise, noise, noise. It's too bad that del Toro's film, a throwback to the Japanese Kaiju monster films made famous by "Godzilla," doesn't have many more such deft moments. And so, in a movie that has spent some $200 million to boast the very best in state-of-the-art tradecraft, an analog machine saves the day, at least temporarily. These massive, digitally controlled contraptions suddenly all fail at once.īut then-eureka!-someone points out that one rusty old robot is analog.
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