Pacific Rim
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| German title | Pacific Rim |
| Original title | Pacific Rim |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 131 minutes |
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| Director | Guillermo del Toro |
| script | Guillermo del Toro, Travis Beacham |
| production | Guillermo del Toro, Jon Jashni , Mary Parent , Thomas Tull |
| music | Ramin Djawadi |
| camera | Guillermo Navarro |
| cut |
Peter Amundson , John Gilroy |
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Pacific Rim is an American science fiction and action film that premiered in theaters on July 12, 2013 in the United States and in Germany on July 18, 2013. Guillermo del Toro wrote and directed the script with Travis Beacham . Production company was Legendary Pictures , the distribution was made by Warner Bros.
action
At the end of 2013, the world is attacked by giant, alien monsters, the so-called kaijūs . They come from the Breach , an interdimensional portal that lies in a crevice in the Pacific Ocean , and they cause immense damage in the coastal cities. Due to their size, the monsters can hardly be defeated with conventional weapons. Therefore, a worldwide financed defense program is launched, through which high-rise, humanoid combat robots, the "Jaeger", are developed. These are controlled by two pilots in the head of the respective hunter who are connected to each other and to the hunter via a neural interface . The movements of the pilots are transmitted directly to the musculoskeletal system of the fighting machine. For an effective thought coupling , the so-called drift , the pilots must have special skills.
Initially, the Jaeger unit, under the command of Marshall Stacker Pentecost, is very successful in fighting the Kaijū, and the pilots are revered like heroes. But the attacks of the monsters, initially at intervals of a few months, occur at ever shorter intervals and become more dangerous. Finally, Gipsy Danger , the hunter of the brothers Raleigh and Yancy Becket, is almost destroyed by a kaijū off the coast of Alaska and Yancy is killed while the mental connection to Raleigh is still in place. He can defeat the monster with the last of his strength and then leaves the unit traumatized.
Five years later, the Jaeger project is to be discontinued and replaced by the construction of a gigantic protective wall along the Pacific coast. But when a Kaijū breaks through the wall near Sydney almost effortlessly, the remaining four hunters are moved to Hong Kong to protect the city until the wall is completed. Pentecost plans to end the war by destroying the Breach with a nuclear weapon . To do this, he recruits Raleigh Becket as a pilot, who now earns his living as a worker on the protective wall. A suitable copilot should be found for him, with whom a strong thought coupling can be established. After a few tests with applicants, Raleigh chooses Mako Mori, who, however, is initially rejected by Pentecost because she is his adopted daughter. He had taken her in when she lost her parents in a kaiju attack as a child. Now he fears that they build the drift could lose control of the fighting machine. Ultimately he gives in, but the first test run with the restored Gipsy Danger almost ends in a disaster when Pentecost's fears come true and Mako, under the spell of her memories, activates the hunter's weapon systems in the hangar . Herc Hansen, also a pilot and vice-commander of the Jaeger unit, can still prevent the disaster.
A short time later, a double attack by the monsters off the coast of Hong Kong is reported. The two attackers turn out to be surprisingly strong, destroy two hunters and put the third out of action with an electromagnetic pulse . Pentecost sends Raleigh and Mako out with Gipsy Danger as their last reserve to stop the monsters from destroying Hong Kong.
In the meantime, genetic researcher Dr. Newton Geiszler succeeded in developing a device similar to the Jaeger control system, with which he can establish a mental connection to a brain fragment of a Kaijū. He discovers that the monsters are controlled by a race of alien conquerors who have artificially created the portal and are planning an invasion of Earth. For a second experiment, which should provide more information, he needs a larger piece of kaijū brain mass. That's why Pentecost gives him permission to contact Hannibal Chau, who got rich in Hong Kong by selling parts of the killed monsters on the black market . In the meantime, Gipsy Danger was able to defeat one of the attackers on the coast. The second makes its way through Hong Kong towards the whereabouts of Geiszler and Chau. He realizes that the monsters have a swarm consciousness and that the Kaijū is therefore instinctively looking for Geiszler.
Finally, Raleigh and Mako can confront and kill the monster. Chau's people immediately attack the carcass and dismantle it. They find out that the monster was pregnant . The newborn breaks out of the womb and devours Chau before strangling itself with its umbilical cord and dying. Dr. Geiszler and his suspicious colleague Dr. Gottlieb seized the opportunity to connect with the still intact brain of the newborn. In drifting with the being, they recognize that the portal repels everything that does not have the genetic structure of a Kaijū. This is also the reason why previous attempts to destroy the portal have failed.
Soon the appearance of two more monsters will be reported, which are even bigger than any previous one. Pentecost has the two remaining Jaegers ready in a hurry and takes over the pilot's seat next to Chuck, the son of Vice-Commander Herc Hansen, who was so badly injured in the last attack that he cannot steer himself. Underwater, they make their way to the Breach , from which a third, even more gigantic monster soon appears. Pentecost, whose Jaeger carries the nuclear weapon, sacrifices himself and Chuck by detonating the bomb prematurely and thereby dragging two of the monsters guarding the portal to their death. Raleigh and Mako cling to the last monster with Gipsy Danger and can fall through the hose-like portal. On the way down, Raleigh shoots the oxygen-starved Mako back to the surface in an escape pod. Then he activates the self-destruct sequence of the nuclear drive of Gipsy Danger and also escapes in a capsule, just in time before the hunter explodes on the other side of the dimensional transition and destroys the portal. Drifting on the surface of the water, Raleigh and Mako are found by rescue helicopters.
During the credits you see Chau cutting his way out of the newborn monster's body and complaining about the loss of a shoe.
Soundtrack
Ramin Djawadi wrote the score for the film . The soundtrack includes 25 tracks. Djawadi has already produced soundtracks for Game of Thrones , Iron Man and Clash of the Titans, among others .
reception
Gross profit
With production costs of 190 million dollars , the film until 17 October 2013 played worldwide about 407.6 million US dollars, of which US $ 101.8 million alone in the United States.
Reviews
Pacific Rim received mostly positive reviews. The review collection site Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 71% based on 272 reviews with a mean rating of 6.6 on a scale of 0-10 possible points. The page overview there comments:
"It may sport more style than substance, but Pacific Rim is a solid modern creature feature bolstered by fantastical imagery and an irresistible sense of fun."
"The strengths of the film lie more in the style than in the content, but Pacific Rim is a solid, modern monster film that is enhanced by fantastic images and an irresistible sense of gags."
Metacritic rated 64 out of 100 points based on 48 reviews, what generally positive ( gene rally favorable stands).
“Pacific Rim is the sometimes somewhat convulsive attempt to save the naivety of earlier science fiction into the multiplex age, which today brings the fantastic fabrics onto the screen with a realistic texture and, at least allegedly, also as contemporary diagnostic events. Pacific Rim counteracts the desire to find out more about the younger big-screen companies with the sheer lust for awesomeness: A film in the constant “Now, wouldn't it be cool if…” mode, which - and that's interesting after all - on the Pledges of pleasure, especially those of somewhat less ambitious comics in terms of content, unlike many contemporary comic adaptations, absolutely. "
“With the film's self-image as an homage and its emphasized artificiality, Pacific Rim deliberately positions itself in a purely cinematic context. The reference system that is used here does not consist of the news images, terror legories and political analyzes of our time, but of the countless preferences of del Toro. The repertoire ranges from Cronenberg's body horror to cartoons and video games to HP Lovecraft , Francisco de Goya and Hokusai's woodcuts , humanistic messages and pathos find their place here as well as trash and pulp. The Kino del Toros may seem like a junk room, sometimes a crude mix, but if added value in pop culture is generated primarily through the playful recombination of familiar elements, then the Mexican director is certainly one of the most productive value creators of contemporary film. "
background
- The term Pacific Rim refers to the Pacific Rim , i.e. the coastal areas in the Pacific Ocean.
- The interior shots of the robot shipyard at the beginning of the film were taken in the second hangar of the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg .
- First Tom Cruise was supposed to play the role of Stacker Pentecost, but later the role was filled with Idris Elba .
- Director Guillermo del Toro, who describes himself as a monster-loving pacifist, didn't want any military ranks in the film. When designating the ranks, he leaned instead on Westerns and used "Marshall" and "Ranger".
- The voice of the computer is the same as from the computer games Portal and Portal 2 ; in both cases it is spoken in the English original by Ellen McLain . In both cases, it is also the voice of an AI .
- The Asylum produced the mockbuster Atlantic Rim , which was released in the USA a few days before Pacific Rim opened in theaters .
continuation
The sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising was released in German cinemas on March 22, 2018 . Directed by Steven S. DeKnight and Scott Eastwood played the lead role.
Games to the movie
Almost at the same time as the cinema release, a game for the film was also released. Yuke's developed a classic beat-'em-up , in which two opponents compete against each other, for PS3 , PC and Xbox 360 . Reliance Games developed the mobile version for Android and iOS .
Web links
- Pacific Rim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release Certificate for Pacific Rim . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 651 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Pacific Rim . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Pacific Rim. Box Office Mojo , October 17, 2013; accessed October 23, 2013 .
- ^ Pacific Rim (2013) . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Flixster. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ Pacific Rim Reviews . In: Metacritic . CBS . Retrieved July 10, 2013.
- ↑ There are no more chains here. perlentaucher.de , accessed on July 21, 2013 .
- ^ Film review. Critic.de, accessed on July 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Interview with director Guillermo del Toro , accessed July 31, 2013
- ↑ Review at Gameswelt.de .