Film Preview: Pacific Rim

For action movie goers this film has pretty much everything with an alien invasion fought off by an army of mega-robots piloted by humans with presumably outlandish CGI special effects. This is what is going to fill the void whilst Michael Bay works out a way to re-boot his own Transformers franchise. Charlie Hunnam is the star (yes the one who was in Byker Grove) whilst Idris Elba is the other big name who stars in this film directed by Guillermo del Toro who has a good background in this sort of movie. A sequel to the original is already in the pipeline and is presumably just awaiting a good box office showing to be given the go-ahead.

Movie Poster

Giant monsters called "Kaiju" have risen out of a crevasse in the Pacific Ocean and wage war on humankind. To combat this new threat, a special type of weapon is designed: massive robots, known as Jaegers (sneaky advertising?), which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. It is down to these robots to save the human race from extinction.

Pacific Rim is released in the UK on 12th July 2013 in the UK and the trailer is embedded below: