Arts & Entertainment
MOVIE REVIEWS: 'Pacific Rim' is Monstrous Summer Fun
A former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and a trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) team up to fight sea monsters bent on destroying the world.
"Pacific Rim" is rated PG-13 and runs 2 hours and 11 minutes. Click here for movie times in and around Johns Creek.
Here's what the critics are saying:
Quibbles aside, "Pacific Rim" delivers plenty of the thing that's been lacking in this summer's event movies: fun. Monsters, robots, grand heroism and a few clever jokes: Sounds like a perfect Saturday afternoon to me. — Ian Buckwalter, NPR
“Pacific Rim’’ is the very rare movie I’d actually recommend seeing in 3-D, because it so effectively immerses the viewer in the action. The Kaiju are computer-generated wonders, and the Jaegers make the Transformers look like ... well, children’s toys. — Lou Lumenick, New York Post
In most ways, this paradoxically derivative yet imaginative sci-fi epic is everything every monster movie since the beginning of time might have wished it could be: In no way pinched budget-wise, it's got first-class special effects, crafty behemoths that calculate and react to circumstances in non-dumb ways, a smart director who injects a sense of fun and surprise whenever he can, a fair percentage of characters you don't mind watching, and a few decent plot twists. In this genre, that's saying something. — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter
"Pacific Rim" very much lives in comic book/pulp science-fiction territory, complete with comic relief scientists (Charlie Day and Burn Gorman). But a number of factors combine to make it a deeper movie experience. — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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