Saturday 17 August 2013

Movie Review : Pacific Rim

The first time I saw the trailer for Pacific Rim, I thought that we were going to have another big-budget, senseless and over-the-top, mind-numbing action Transformers-like movie. But as it turns out I was fortunately wrong. Instead I got a movie that excited me like few movies have in recent years. Comparisons of Pacific Rim to Transformers are bound to take place because both are essentially humanoid mecha (science fiction genre related to robots and machines) movies. The difference lies in execution, thoughtfulness, artistic appeal and sheer enthusiasm with which both the movies were made. Despite having a lower budget than Transformers 2 and 3 , Pacific Rim's special effects are much better as the CGI robots look and feel completely real. If a comparison is done on aspects other than special effects like story, characters and overall appeal of the two movies, then rest assured Pacific Rim outperforms Transformers by many parsecs ( ;-) ).

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