Nothing special. The Jaeger look cool, and their weapons are ridiculous enough that you can think it's a parody. You barely see the Kaijus. Third rate scenario, but you gotta admit CGI are pretty good looking.
Boyega's main character is a little less transparent than the first one's. The kid building her own Jaeger was something interesting but it didn't turn into anything special. The reveal of the bad huy is the only small point of interest in the scenario. Most of the rest is a copy of an Evangelion episode.
The rogue Jaeger, Obsidian Fury, is really cool though, and it's the main interest of the movie. The fight with it are impressive. Though after defeating it they don't seem to care anymore about their initial goal, did they even try to see what was in the factory ?
Although, there's been 10 years since the first one. They had a lot of data on numerous Kaijus attacks, and nobody ever figured one they were all going in a straight line ? Nobody ever put all Kaijus attacks on one map ??
The fights with Kaijus are ridiculous. They could easily fight outside the cities, specially after they know that the Kaiju does not aim to destroy the city, it just want to walk through it, but not only do they do it in the midst of buildings, the heroes also just happily run their blades trough the buildings or take ten of them down in a row to throw them on the Kaiju, why all this pointless destruction ? Also there are people in there, come on ! Not even talking about the part that they just put children that never really had any fighting experience in command of the most destructive weapons ever invented by mankind and just send them merilly on their way to battle in the city.
And the whole final attack on the Kaiju is way way way too stupid. Well first it looks like it takes 20 minutes to get over the city. Then they stop the fight, just get up, and it is already what, a hundred kilometers away ? There's not even be 2 minutes since they stopped fighting. Then it just resumes normal speed so that they can plan an attack. And what attack, even perfectly planned, accounting to the distance, Kaiju direction and speed, atmospheric conditions, it would be difficult, but it's jsut (badly) hand (un)controlled, breaks in the middle, and still manages to hit ?
In the end, it seems to take itself more seriously than the first one, and fails, by a lot.
Review by FLYVIP 2BlockedParent2019-02-09T19:07:08Z
Nothing special. The Jaeger look cool, and their weapons are ridiculous enough that you can think it's a parody. You barely see the Kaijus. Third rate scenario, but you gotta admit CGI are pretty good looking.
Boyega's main character is a little less transparent than the first one's. The kid building her own Jaeger was something interesting but it didn't turn into anything special. The reveal of the bad huy is the only small point of interest in the scenario. Most of the rest is a copy of an Evangelion episode.
The rogue Jaeger, Obsidian Fury, is really cool though, and it's the main interest of the movie. The fight with it are impressive. Though after defeating it they don't seem to care anymore about their initial goal, did they even try to see what was in the factory ?
Although, there's been 10 years since the first one. They had a lot of data on numerous Kaijus attacks, and nobody ever figured one they were all going in a straight line ? Nobody ever put all Kaijus attacks on one map ??
The fights with Kaijus are ridiculous. They could easily fight outside the cities, specially after they know that the Kaiju does not aim to destroy the city, it just want to walk through it, but not only do they do it in the midst of buildings, the heroes also just happily run their blades trough the buildings or take ten of them down in a row to throw them on the Kaiju, why all this pointless destruction ? Also there are people in there, come on !
Not even talking about the part that they just put children that never really had any fighting experience in command of the most destructive weapons ever invented by mankind and just send them merilly on their way to battle in the city.
And the whole final attack on the Kaiju is way way way too stupid. Well first it looks like it takes 20 minutes to get over the city. Then they stop the fight, just get up, and it is already what, a hundred kilometers away ? There's not even be 2 minutes since they stopped fighting. Then it just resumes normal speed so that they can plan an attack. And what attack, even perfectly planned, accounting to the distance, Kaiju direction and speed, atmospheric conditions, it would be difficult, but it's jsut (badly) hand (un)controlled, breaks in the middle, and still manages to hit ?
In the end, it seems to take itself more seriously than the first one, and fails, by a lot.