Pacific Rim (2013) - About the Movie

Pacific Rim – Super-Robots and Super-Monsters in a Super Sci-Fi Romp from the Depths of Guillermo del Toro’s Imagination!



Would it be fair to say that Pacific Rim took the sci-fi world by surprise? Not exactly – we pretty much knew from the moment it was announced we’d be looking at a serious summer blockbuster. And so it proved, as the chaos and carnage of Guillermo del Toro’s deepest, darkest imagination once again translated to an outright masterpiece of epic proportions. But what turned out to be most surprising about Pacific Rim was how incredibly popular it was (and still is) outside the United States and the usual key box-office territories.



Unforgettable, inimitable and just the kind of romp to make you feel six-years-old again – isn’t that what every solid sci-fi flick should be out to accomplish?





Guillermo del Toro's paradoxically derivative yet imaginative sci-fi epic is everything that monster movies since the beginning of time might have wished they could be. The Hollywood Reporter

This is a cheekier brand of Armageddon — del Toro is giving scope to a boyhood lust for mayhem, the multi-million-dollar equivalent of kicking over sandcastles and torturing insects. There is something infectiously juvenile in that. Catch his Drift and you’ll have a brawl. Empire

If I were nine years old, I would see the monsters-versus-robots adventure "Pacific Rim" 50 times. Because I'm in my forties and have two kids and two jobs, I'll have to be content with seeing it a couple more times in theaters and re-watching it on video. Matt Zoller Seitz, Rogerebert.com