You might not like the turn towards the younger audience or something else in the movie but it still does not make it a one star movie. The special effects alone elevates this movie above one star. A one star rating is for a movie that is truly awful in all aspects. It seems like a lot of people on IMDb and elsewhere have their pants in a twist over this movie and rates it one or two stars out of ten. The characters in this one was more bland that has to be said. I do miss some colorful characters like Hannibal Chau (Ron Perlman) from the first movie. The story, acting and everything else is adequate. They are literally beating each other up with skyscrapers for Christ sake! Loads and loads of special effects mostly involving giant robots and Kaijus slugging it out with massive property damage as a result. It delivered where it counts, that is in the special effects department. The ridiculous crap about Dinosaurs being the first invasion and that we had terraformed the planet (global warming and all that stuff) so a second invasion was more likely to succeed was just an insult to the more intelligent among the audience and took off a star or two from the first movie for me. The story is also mostly devoid of any stupid SJW crap or silly green preaching. Of course said program gets sabotaged but hey, we, the audience, want our big silly robots right? Sure the program is in some danger but this time it is due to a new program that actually sounds reasonable and could improve things. It does not really have any of that lazy stupid plot twist where some dumb ass politicians are trying to shut down the program to save money. It is a quite straightforward story with clear heroes, clear bad guys. I just had to say that didn’t I? Still, there are some parts of this story that I liked better than the first one. It has plot holes big enough to drive I giant robot through. Personally I’m fairly neutral.Īs with the previous movie the story is not really that much to write home about. This installment in the franchise seems to be more geared towards the younger audience as far as the story and the cast goes. But then, the purpose of these movies are to show off giant robot special effects and on that note they certainly deliver. Just send in a couple of fighter jets with some suitable devices that go boom and be done with it. Come one, fighting giant monster with big clumsy robots that requires two people in some strange mind melt to maneuver is just ridiculous. Sure, the underlying story is totally ludicrous. In some ways I actually liked this movie more than the first one. This movie is, to me, a quite nice special effects extravaganza. Daniel Feuerriegel As Lieutenant Allan Gronetti.Ivanna Sakhno As Viktoriya 'Vik' Malikova.
But as the summit for the vote is about to start in Sydney (CSDP HQ), an illegal Jaeger lands and attacks the city, killing Mako Mori. Jake also finds his half-sister, Mako Mori, who became Secretary General of Pan Pacific Defense Corps. On site, everyone is buzzing because the Jaegers are about to be rendered obsolete by the vote of a product drone program Corporation and developed by Shao Shao Liwen and D r Newton Geiszler. They are both arrested for theft of equipment Jaeger and illegal construction Jaeger, and to avoid prison are forced to accept to be embedded on a military base in China where Jake finds his former co-driver jaeger, Nate Lambert, to train the new pilot recruits, whom Amara joins. He will meet the young Amara Namani, who made her own Jaeger (the giant robots that made it possible to face the monsters). Jake, son of the famous Marshall Stacker Pentecost (dead as a hero), lives on theft and barter while fleeing the family past. Ten years after the closing of the breach, the world is rebuilding and now lives in peace without the Kaijûs.