Pacific Rim (2013)

	Pacific Rim
	Pacific Rim
Directed by	Guillermo del Toro
Producer(s)	Thomas Tull,; Jon Jashni,; Guillermo del Toro,; Mary Parent
Written by	Travis Beacham,; Guillermo del Toro
Music by	Ramin Djawadi
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures
Rating	PG-13
Budget	$190,000,000
Box office	$101,802,906 (U.S.); $309,200,000 (Foreign); $411,002,906 (Total)
Running time	131 minutes; (2 hours and 11 minutes)
Aspect ratio	1.85:1

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“	Go Big or Go Extinct	„
	— Tagline

Pacific Rim is a 2013 American kaiju film produced by Legendary Pictures and directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film was released in U.S. theaters on July 12, 2013.

Plot

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The film starts with Raleigh Becket narrating about kaiju first appearing on the planet, going to the kaiju Trespasser's attack on August 10-16, 2013. The military eventually killed Trespasser with three tactical nukes, but over the course of the next few years, more kaiju came out of a portal called the Breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Humanity built robots called Jaegers (that required two pilots with mind links) to fight the kaiju as nuclear bombs would destroy most of the cities and the planet.

The story then jumps to February 20, 2020- the Anchorage Shatterdome detects the largest Category 3 kaiju ever recorded, Knifehead. The Jaeger Gipsy Danger is deployed to fight the kaiju. However, a ship named "Saltchuck" is in the water near the kaiju. Yancy pushes the ship toward safety, punches the Knifehead twice, and proceeds to hammer on the kaiju. Yancy charges up the right plasma cannon and shoots it three times, supposedly killing Knifehead. The Shatterdome picks up Knifehead, who wasn't killed and was only faking. Knifehead surprise attacks Gipsy- Raleigh charges the left plasma cannon, but Knifehead rips off Gipsy's left arm before it can fire. Knifehead then tears through Gipsy and kills Yancy. Raleigh fires the right plasma cannon while Knifehead beats up Gipsy and kills Knifehead. Raleigh is unable to finish piloting Gipsy and crashes on Anchorage's icy shore. Afterwards, we see the Anchorage Shatterdome on closing day, where the UN tells Marshal Stacker Pentecost that the Jaegers are losing and the planet needs defence. He is given eight more months of funding for the Jaegers.

The story skips to 2025, where Raleigh is working on an Alaskan Coast Defense wall to keep out the kaiju. Marshell Pentecost asks Raleigh to join the last of his rangers in one last assault against the breach to close it. Raleigh accepts the Pentecost's offer and meets Mako Mori at the Hong Kong Jaeger Bay, the two becoming co-pilots. In a trial run, Raleigh learns how Pentecost saved Mako's life when he was a ranger and why he is so protective of Mako. Two Kaiju come out of the breach (Code names Leatherback and Otachi)and attack Hong Kong. Three other Jaegers (named Cherno Alpha, Crimson Typhoon, and Striker Eureka) battle the two Kaiju, but two of the Jaegers get destroyed and the third Jaeger's circuits get fried by the kaiju's EMP. Pentecost sends in Gipsy Danger, who kills Leatherback and Otachi, and saves the short-circuited Jaeger (Striker Eureka).

Two scientists, Newton and Hermann, discover that the plan to send a nuclear bomb into the breach (the reason why Pentecost recruited Raleigh again) won't work. They rush back to tell the pilots of Gipsy Danger and Striker Eureka their discovery. They then tell them that they must ride a Kaiju into the breach in order to open it. During the Jaeger's assault, Three Kaiju come out of the breach (Raiju and Scunner) along with the first-ever Category 5 kaiju (Slattern). Raleigh and Mako kill Raiju with Gypsy's sword. Striker Eureka detonates her payload and kills Scunner, but only mortally wounds Slattern. Gipsy rides Slattern to open the breach and kills it in the process. Mako and Raleigh eject from Gipsy right before they detonate Gipsy's nuclear core, which closes the Breach.

Staff

A transcript of Pacific Rim's end credits are available on SciFi Japan.

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Written by Travis Beacham and Guillermo del Toro
Produced by Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Guillermo del Toro, and Mary Parent
Executive producing by Callum Greene
Music by Ramin Djawadi
Cinematography by Guillermo Navarro
Edited by John Gilroy and Peter Amundson
Production design by Andrew Neskoromny and Carol Spier
Sound Designer Scott Martin Gershin

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket
Diego Klattenhoff as Yancy Becket
Idris Elba as Marshall Stacker Pentecost
Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori
Charlie Day as Dr. Newton Geiszler
Burn Gorman as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
Max Martini as Herc Hansen
Robert Kazinsky as Chuck Hansen
Clifton Collins Jr. as Ops. Tendo Choi
Ron Perlman as Hannibal Chau
Brad William Henke as Construction Foreman
Larry Joe Campbell as Construction Worker
Mana Ashida as Young Mako
Santiago Segura as Wizened Man
Joe Pingue as Captain Merrit
Milton Barnes as McTighe
Brian Frank as 1st Officer
Ellen McLain as Gipsy Danger AI (voice)
David Fox as Old Man on Beach
Jake Goodman as Child
Robin Thomas as American UN Representative
Julian Barnes as British UN Representative
David Richmond Peck as Canadian UN Representative

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

Charles Luu, Lance Luu, Mark Luu as Wei Tang Triplets
Robert Maillet as Lt. Sasha Kaidanovsky
Heather Doerksen as Lt. Aleksis Kaidanovsky
Josh Peace as Officer
Sebastian Pigott as Engineer
Victoria Marie as Chinese Girl in Anti-Kaiju Refuge
Roger Wong as Man in Anti-Kaiju Refuge
JC Kenny as TV Reporter
Jane Watson as Raleigh and Yancy's Mom
Robert Morse as Raleigh and Yancy's Dad
Paul Michael Wyers as Young Raleigh
Tyler Stevenson as Young Yancy
Mike Chute, Duncan McLeod, Louis Paquette, Matthew G. Taylor as Saltchuck Crew
Terry Belleville, Frank Nakashima, Farzad Sadrian, Mishu Vellani, Clive Walton as UN Representatives
Peter Kosaka as Young Mako's Father
Yiren Stark as Young Mako's Mother
Hubert Tran as Asian Boy
Trek Buccino as Young Newt
Drew Adkins as Young Gottlieb
Kelvin Lum, Soo David Chum Ling, Randy Lee, Jung-Yul Kim, Kaelyn Wong as Hannibal Chau Thugs

Appearances

Monsters

Jaegers

Weapons, vehicles, and races

F-22 Raptor
USS John C. Stennis (Nimitz-class aircraft carrier)
Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low
V-50 Jumphawk
Precursors

Gallery

Main article: Pacific Rim/Gallery.

Alternate titles

Battle for Pacific (Битка за пацифик; Serbia)
Battle of the Pacific (Batalha do Pacífico; Portugal)
Circle of Fire (Círculo de Fogo; Brazil)

Theatrical releases

Argentina - July 11, 2013
Australia - July 11, 2013
Bolivia - July 11, 2013
Chile - July 11, 2013
Czech Republic - July 11, 2013
Dominican Republic - July 11, 2013
Croatia - July 11, 2013
Hungary - July 11, 2013
Indonesia - July 11, 2013
Italy - July 11, 2013
South Korea - July 11, 2013
Lebanon - July 11, 2013
Montenegro - July 11, 2013
Republic of Macedonia - July 11, 2013
Malaysia - July 11, 2013
New Zealand - July 11, 2013
Peru - July 11, 2013
Philippines - July 11, 2013
Puerto Rico - July 11, 2013
Serbia - July 11, 2013
Russia - July 11, 2013
Singapore - July 11, 2013
Slovenia - July 11, 2013
Slovakia - July 11, 2013
Thailand - July 11, 2013
Taiwan - July 11, 2013
Ukraine - July 11, 2013
Uruguay - July 11, 2013
Canada - July 12, 2013
Colombia - July 12, 2013
Cyprus - July 12, 2013
Estonia - July 12, 2013
United Kingdom - July 12, 2013
Ireland - July 12, 2013
India - July 12, 2013
Lithuania - July 12, 2013
Latvia - July 12, 2013

Mexico - July 12, 2013
Panama - July 12, 2013
Poland - July 12, 2013
Romania - July 12, 2013
United States - July 12, 2013
Venezuela - July 12, 2013
Belgium - July 17, 2013
France - July 17, 2013
Iceland - July 17, 2013
Germany - July 18, 2013
Hong Kong - July 18, 2013
Cambodia - July 18, 2013
Netherlands - July 18, 2013
Portugal - July 18, 2013
Austria - July 19, 2013
Turkey - July 19, 2013
Vietnam - July 19, 2013
China - July 31, 2013
Costa Rica - July 31, 2013
Denmark - August 1, 2013
Israel - August 1, 2013
Finland - August 2, 2013
Norway - August 2, 2013
Sweden - August 2, 2013
South Africa - August 2, 2013
United Arab Emirates - August 8, 2013
Kuwait - August 8, 2013
Brazil - August 9, 2013
Spain - August 9, 2013
Japan - August 9, 2013
Paraguay - August 11, 2013
Azerbaijan - August 15, 2013
Pakistan - August 23, 2013
Egypt - September 4, 2013
Greece - September 12, 2013
Kazakhstan - November 21, 2013
Bangladesh - November 22, 2013

Premium Formats

RealD 3D (post-converted)
IMAX 3D
4DX
Dolby Atmos

Video releases

Warner Bros. DVD + UltraViolet/Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD/3D Blu-ray + Blu-ray + DVD + UltraViolet (2013)

Region: Various
Discs: 2 (DVD) or 3 (Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D bundles)
Audio: English (DTS HD-Master Audio 7.1 on the 3D Blu-ray and Blu-ray, Surround 5.1 on the DVD), Spanish, Canadian French (Surround 5.1) [U.S. release - will vary depending on country]
Special features: Audio commentary by Guillermo del Toro, Focus Points (62 minutes), Drift Space featurette (5 minutes), The Director's Notebook, The Digital Artistry of Pacific Rim featurette (17 minutes), production gallery, blooper reel (4 minutes), deleted scenes (4 minutes)
Notes: A single-disc DVD without special features can be found packaged with Godzilla (2014). "The Director's Notebook" is only available on Blu-ray. The Blu-ray bundle was reissued in 2017 with a new "Monster Mayhem!" slipcover.

Videos

Main article: Pacific Rim/Videos.

Trivia

Hugo Martin, the artist behind the designs of the Jaegers for the film, is noted for his work at id Software and one of the directors of the 2016 first-person shooter video game, DOOM, as well as the sole director of its 2020 sequel, DOOM Eternal.
- The design of the Atlans, enormous bipedal mechs used by the Night Sentinels to combat the gargantuan, demonic Titans from Hell, draw inspiration from the Jaegers.
The Asylum, an American studio specializing in knock-offs of blockbuster films, produced Atlantic Rim to capitalize on Pacific Rim. They released it to DVD on July 9, 2013, three days before Pacific Rim was released in American theaters.

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RexGoji

2 months ago

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Favorite kaiju movie after Kotm.