Virag's Movie Reviews: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Holey shnite, this thing sucked.  Hard.  The first flick was dumb and fun, and this one had most of the same pieces, but they were assembled so poorly that the enterprise wouldn't function.  It was sad to see how much of the story was strangled to wedge all the Chinese actors into it, too.  I mean, the first one was a yuge hit in China, so the sequel abandoned most of the good characters to make room for the home team.  Whoops.  And Clint Eastwood's kid is not what anyone would call charismatic on screen.  Or an actor.  Burn Gorman was probably happy for the work, though.  (Even he was looking a little uncomfortable by the end.)  Too bad the hilarious fake Australian guy couldn't be located.  The big dumb robot movies shoulda been a thing.  Maybe Guillermo del Toro had an actual cool idea for a sequel.