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PACIFIC RIM

2013 US HMDB
juillet 11, 2013

Surgies des flots, des hordes de créatures monstrueuses, les "Kaiju", ont déclenché une guerre qui a fait des millions de victimes et épuisé les ressources naturelles de l'humanité pendant des années. Pour les combattre, une arme d'un genre nouveau a été mise au point : de gigantesques robots, les "Jaegers", contrôlés simultanément par deux pilotes qui communiquent par télépathie. Mais même les Jaegers semblent impuissants face aux redoutables Kaiju. Alors que la défaite paraît inéluctable, les forces armées qui protègent l'humanité n'ont d'autre choix que d'avoir recours à deux héros hors normes : un ancien pilote au bout du rouleau et une jeune femme en cours d'entraînement qui font équipe pour manœuvrer un Jaeger légendaire, quoique d'apparence obsolète. Ensemble, ils incarnent désormais le dernier rempart de l'humanité contre une apocalypse de plus en plus imminente…

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Production: Mary Parent (Producer)Thomas Tull (Producer)Jon Jashni (Producer)Callum Greene (Executive Producer)
Scenario: Travis Beacham (Screenplay)Guillermo del Toro (Screenplay)
Musique: Ramin Djawadi (Original Music Composer)
Photographie: Guillermo Navarro (Director of Photography)

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Roberto Giacomelli
Lorsque s'est ouverte une faille dans le fond de l'océan Pacifique, des créatures monstrueuses géantes ont commencé à en sortir peu à peu et à détruire les villes. Initialement impuissants, les humains ont finalement compris que la seule façon de combattre ces créatures, baptisées Kaiju, était d'utiliser des monstres à leur tour. C'est ainsi que les nations ont construit les Jeagers, d'énormes robots commandés par deux pilotes chacun, qui se connectent à la machine via un réseau neuronal. La guerre est toujours inégale et les Kaiju semblent avoir le dessus, décimant peu à peu tous les Jeagers. Après des années de combats, il ne reste plus qu'une dernière tentative à effectuer avec les quatre derniers robots : essayer de faire pénétrer une bombe nucléaire dans la faille océanique, afin d'interrompre le pont interdimensionnel qui permet aux monstres d'arriver de leur monde sur Terre. En regardant le dernier, magnifique, film de Guillermo Del Toro, les plus jeunes pourraient penser à des succès récents comme "Transformers" et "Cloverfield" et pourtant le réalisateur mexicain de "Le Labyrinthe de Pan" s'était fixé un objectif bien précis en réalisant "Pacific Rim" et gare à ceux qui lui parlent des robots de la Hasbro portés au cinéma par Michael Bay ! Del Toro, avec son dernier film, mastodontique, a voulu rendre hommage à tout ce cinéma d'animation, de monstres et les bandes dessinées respectives qui racontent des histoires de créatures monstrueuses colossales et de robots de dimensions disproportionnées : dans "Pacific Rim", il y a l'imaginaire d'au moins deux générations, de "Godzilla" et ses fils (les Kaiju) à Daitan, Gundam, Jeeg, beaucoup de Neon Genesis Evangelion et cousins divers (les Jeagers), au milieu de tout cela, il y a une multitude de références plus ou moins évidentes, accompagnées d'une excellente gestion de la narration et des personnages pour un film qui mélange tellement de choses qu'il en devient totalement original. Chaque seconde de "Pacific Rim" est une déclaration d'amour de l'auteur à cet imaginaire qui constitue son bagage culturel et à cet univers qu'il s'est fixé de mettre en scène. La passion avec laquelle "Pacific Rim" est réalisé et raconté est constamment perceptible et malgré le budget d'environ 180 millions de dollars qui en a fait l'un des blockbusters de l'été 2013, ce film est un Del Toro à 100%, un vrai passionné de cinéma et de culture populaire et non un simple exécuteur de films à succès, comme on le perçoit presque toujours avec ce type de produits. Pourquoi "Pacific Rim" est-il un bon film ? Seulement parce qu'il transmet la passion pour certains produits ? Évidemment non. "Pacific Rim" est avant tout un film fracassant dans lequel des monstres géants provenant d'une autre dimension se battent à coups de robots géants guidés par des soldats. Mais les combats hautement spectaculaires, qui nous offrent de longs moments de divertissement ludique et insouciant, sont liés à une attention portée à l'histoire racontée et aux personnages que nous ne nous serions pas attendus. "Pacific Rim" est d'abord un film qui aborde le thème de l'union et du partage (entre personnes, peuples et expériences/vécus individuels) et réussit à éviter tous ces facilités romantico-patriotiques qui sont habituellement utilisées pour transmettre ces valeurs dans le cinéma grand public. Dans le film de Del Toro, ce ne sont pas les États-Unis indistructibles qui dominent la vision du monde, mais un discours vraiment global qui mène à la collaboration pour un objectif commun de victoire : les pilotes des Jeagers viennent de partout dans le monde et même si le protagoniste Raleigh Becket est américain, pour réussir dans son entreprise, il est contraint de collaborer et de partager des souvenirs et des expériences avec la japonaise Mako Mori, ainsi que de planifier la stratégie d'attaque avec des pilotes australiens, chinois et russes. Il s'agit d'une guerre entre l'humanité et un monde qui lui est étranger, peut-être divin, dans un défi pertinent qui pourrait rappeler les mythes grecs et les croisades de ces héros qui cherchaient la rédemption pour l'homme contre les divinités cruelles. La chose agréable de "Pacific Rim", en outre, est le scénario écrit par Del Toro lui-même avec Travis Beacham ("Clash of the Titans", non sans raison), qui réussit à traiter une histoire d'une ampleur narrative (mais aussi temporelle) incroyable de manière absolument fluide et ordonnée, grâce au choix de cadrer toute l'histoire du point de vue des pilotes des Jeagers (et en partie des deux scientifiques qui collaborent avec eux). De plus, une grande partie des différents personnages qui nous sont présentés sont bien définis, ils réussissent à faire émerger des personnalités et des expériences même avec quelques images et répliques et, surtout, ils réussissent à créer de l'empathie chez le spectateur. Parmi les nombreux, peut-être, le personnage le mieux réussi est Mako Mori interprété par la talentueuse Rinko Kikuchi ("47 Ronin"), une fille aussi fragile que téméraire et prête à se battre pour elle-même et pour son trauma avant que pour la cause. Bien sûr, le personnage interprété par l'acteur fétiche de Del Toro Ron Perlman, Hannibal Chau, un trafiquant de carcasses de Kaiju aussi fanfaron et autoritaire que sympa, ne passe pas inaperçu. Del Toro dirige avec conscience et main sûre, réussissant à exalter le spectateur avec les nombreuses et longues scènes de combat, toutes fluides et bien chorégraphiées malgré le fait qu'elles soient pratiquement toujours de nuit et sous une pluie battante, sinon même sur les fonds océaniques. À ce propos, la belle photographie sombre du fidèle Guillermo Navarro compte également, qui a fait beaucoup de films avec Del Toro. C'est presque inutile de souligner que les bandes-annonces parlent clair, mais le look des monstres et des robots est vraiment magnifique, toujours attentif à différencier l'un de l'autre et, dans le cas des Kaiju, enfin capable de nous proposer des monstres aliens originaux, loin de l'étalon arachniforme des dernières années, plutôt lié à l'environnement marin, avec des créatures qui rappellent souvent des crustacés et des reptiles (il n'y a même pas de monstre volant, pour autant !) et, pourquoi pas, au moins dans un cas, avec un goût décidément lovecraftien. Et la dédicace finale à Ishiro Honda et Ray Harryhausen est une déclaration (en fait une confirmation) d'intentions de Del Toro. Il y a un autre point à souligner : "Pacific Rim" est présenté en 3D mais il s'agit d'une conversion et non d'un 3D natif, mais le résultat est très satisfaisant. Le film mise tout sur le sens de la profondeur mais atteint parfaitement sa cible, nous offrant un 3D non indispensable mais absolument harmonieux et ordonné même dans les scènes de bataille frénétique... ce qui est vraiment rare pour une conversion 3D ! En somme, "Pacific Rim" est un film incontournable pour tous les amateurs de monster movies, d'anime et surtout de bon cinéma fantastique. Le réalisateur mexicain a encore frappé, confirmant qu'il est l'un des artistes les plus talentueux de sa génération et "Pacific Rim" est un divertissement intelligent et spectaculaire, pas seulement le jouet estival que l'on pourrait s'attendre. Ne quittez pas la salle trop vite car il y a une surprise à la moitié des crédits. Ajoutez une demi-courge.
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GeekMasher

8 /10

First I want to say I liked this movie. I was surprised, I've been hearing bad reviews but I can't see big problem. The only issues was with the story. Apart from that the graphics where very good. The actors where okay (no major actors) and the baddies (no spoilers) where well thought out and graphically impressive (same for the robots).

All in all a good movie.

Matt Golden

10 /10

When monstrous, building-sized creatures (dubbed "kaiju") hell-bent on destruction begin pouring out of an extra-dimensional fissure at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, humanity bands together to build titanic mechas called jaegers, each controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are linked through a neural bond called "The Drift." As the kaiju get stronger and the signs point to an all-out flood of the beasts, the fate of humanity looks bleak, and the surviving jaegers are brought together for one last-ditch attempt at saving the world.

After an agonizingly long five-year wait, filled with some heartbreaking starts and stops (like the almost-weres of The Hobbit and At the Mountains of Madness), Guillermo del Toro has finally returned with his biggest budget and story yet. The Mexican master of fantasy returns to the toybox of his youth, drawing from the kaiju films of old (Godzilla, Gamera, Mothra, and the like) and anime to create the modern-day monster movie we didn't even know we wanted.

I am a genre man through and through, and del Toro's films are filled with both the intelligence of the best of science fiction, fantasy, and horror and a flawlessly-rendered vision unique to him. His innate knowledge of what makes those outlandish stories truly matter to us is the backbone of his work as a writer and director, and his visual style is one that invokes true wonder.

It's that wonder, that childlike glee that makes Pacific Rim work so well, and well it does work. This is a brawny, massive film made by a true artist and auteur at the top of his game, but while the technicals of this film could have been mounted by any number of working directors, the magic of Guillermo del Toro is that he infuses every film with himself. His love of the material, whatever it may be, shines brightly through every frame. It is this complete sincerity that makes his films such a joy to experience, and even when there are 250-foot behemoths slugging it out on the screen, there's not a trace of the disastrous irony or cynicism so readily supplied by other blockbusters anywhere to be found.

The cast gamely comes to play, with Idris Elba (TV’s Luther) as Stacker Pentecost (one of my favorite character names of all time) as the stoic leader of the jaeger program, Charlie Hunnam (TV’s Sons of Anarchy) as former pilot Raleigh Becket, who suffered a tragic loss and has to be convinced to return to jaeger service, and Oscar-nominated Rinko Kinkuchi (Babel) as Mako Mori, another life touched by the kaiju and ready to serve up some righteous fury. If these sound like tried-and-true archetypes, it’s because they are. This is a grand, epic war film on a bigger scale than anything ever attempted before in that genre, and one of the strokes of genius from del Toro and original writer Travis Beacham is that we instantly establish and identify with the characters onscreen. There are so many ideas flying around (monsters, mechas, neural bonding, kaiju culture, and many, many more) that the broadly-drawn characters serve as a perfect anchor for the audience, immediately relatable in their inherent humanity.

It seems that the mission statment of this movie was, in a word, “texture.” Del Toro delivered a visual feast unlike any other big spectacle films, with his insistence on it not looking like a “glossy car commercial.” Instead, every frame is filled with rain, snow, scuffs, smoke, debris, and other visual elements that reflect the weight and dimension of these cyclopean combatants. Unlike the ultra-glossy (and emotionally irrelevant) Transformers films, or virtually any other modern big-budget actioner, this universe feels dirty, grungy, and lived-in, like the original Star Wars trilogy.

In fact, dubbing a film “this generation’s Star Wars” has been overused to the point of robbing the phrase of all meaning. But Pacific Rim feels just like that. It invokes those most elusive of emotions in the modern studio film: wonder, awe, and sheer enjoyment. Do you remember the awe you felt upon seeing a Star Destroyer creep onto the screen? Discovering a brachiosaurus on Isla Nublar? Laying eyes on the verdant fields of Middle Earth? This film has that. No one builds worlds like del Toro, and here he is, the master, inviting you to play in his sandbox with him. Grab your favorite action figure and hop in.

VolcanoAl

My favorite movie for years!!!I absolutely love this movie!No big story.A lot of action.The only bad thing is all the fights are at night & in the rain.A bright daylight fight would have really made it great!!!

Andres Gomez

7 /10

This movie has almost everything that is expected from it so just relax lay back with the pop corn and your soft drink and enjoy.

Just to make noticeable the remarkable few amount of females featuring in the movie and how bad is that Travis Beacham and Guillermo del Toro just copy Evangelion's idea without giving anything back.

Dark Jedi

7 /10

I have to say that I enjoyed this pure special effects movie quite a lot even though the plot is totally ridiculous. Clumsy giant robots beating at alien beasts with their fists should be better than modern tanks and airplanes with modern explosive and armor penetrating weapons? As I said, a ridiculous story. Well it does not really matter does it because the story gives an excuse for some real cool special effects loaded action. Giant robots and alien Godzillas in the same movie. Cool, simply cool.

Once you have gotten past the silliness of the story it is a very entertaining rollercoaster ride of action. The scenes where the robots and aliens go head to head is visually very enjoyable. Sometimes they make you laugh as well. For instance the scene where Gipsy Danger (one of the robots) drags a cargo ship after it to use as a club.

Unfortunately a somewhat somber mood is set right from the start by the fact that the Jaeger program is discontinued. Not because they are really defenseless as the movie blurb states but because dumbass politicians wants to save money as usual. Instead they build giant walls that are subsequently breached in hours. As I said, dumbass politicians. I guess they wanted to put some realism into the movie!

As much as the robot and alien action is tremendously enjoyable I think some of my favorite scenes are the ones with Ron Perlman as Hannibal Chau. I have always liked Ron Perlman and he is simply outrageously (as in funny) wacky as Hannibal Chau.

The one thing I did not like with the movie is the ludicrous nonsense statements about the dinosaurs being the first attempt at an invasion. Whoever wrote that must be an idiot. Worse, the fact that it made it into the movie means that someone believes that the audience are idiots. When it then was followed by some green-religious crap that the atmosphere was not right for them then but that we have now “terraformed” earth for them by our pollution it was at least a star off just for that. I hate it when they put crap like that in the movies. It is an insult to the audience.

Anyway, despite the dinosaur nonsense I found it a very enjoyable movie. Without that it would have received a near top rating but as I said, it is at least a star off due to that crap.

Teemu

5 /10

Watching a CGI heavy movie 5 years following its release doesn't sound like such a hot idea, but in the case of Pacific Rim nothing really drew me out of the experience in terms of aging animation.

However, the film itself was an 'okay' at best. Aside from the spectacle CGI fights of giants robots versus giant alien monsters it doesn't offer anything of value. This is one of those movies you can safely keep on your second monitor and zone out in between the set piece fight scenes.

The Movie Mob

The Movie Mob

6 /10

Pacific Rim is outrageous and cliche but loads of fun if you embrace it for what it is: insane robot/monster action.

Pacific Rim is a ridiculous action monster movie that is a lot of fun if you have the right expectations. It’s a film about giant rock em sock em robots fighting giant Godzilla-like monsters, filled with shallow characters, goofy dialogue, great thrills, and exciting action sequences. Charlie Day’s wacky scientist was exceedingly annoying, but then you also have Idris Elba’s inspiring gritty performance of Stacker Pentecost in the same film. Those two performances perfectly define the movie as one of extremes. Extreme robot monster action. Extreme goofiness. All mixed in together for a unique movie worth a watch but not the movie hall of fame.

Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

7 /10

It could be so much better with some logic.

Guillermo Del Toro is a good director, but he seems to be learning too much from Tim Burton instead of forging his own path. I really liked some of his films, especially “Pan’s Labyrinth”, but this film, despite its merits, has nothing to do with that and doesn’t even seem to be from the same director.

The best thing about this film is the extremely high production values. Visually, the film is amazing and it's really nice to watch. We've got great visuals, stunning cinematography, and an absolutely immersive dose of high-quality CGI. In addition, the film has very well-made sets and costumes, thought out in detail and indisputably expensive. The special effects department, despite all the computer graphics used, also had a series of good opportunities to show its value, and it never failed to do so. The editing is good, the cuts are barely felt and the pace of the film is extremely pleasant. All good reasons to see the film, which was a great blockbuster.

Director Del Toro, I have no doubt, had the courage to take a risk on a film that looks like nothing I've seen of him. However, and as I said, he is good, he is creative, and he is a perfectionist in his work, assuring us of an impeccable job in this film. The cast has great actors, and all of them were at the best level. Idris Elba is, for me, the most notable and the best of them all, but I also appreciated the efforts of Rinko Kikuchi and Charlie Day. The worst performance came from Ron Perlman, but this is largely due to the poor conception of the character, who is a crude caricature of a common drug dealer with no taste. Charlie Hunnam, honestly, was an actor that I completely missed. I felt that not only did he lack the charisma and ability to hold the audience and be the protagonist, but he also lacked the skills for the task.

I deliberately left the script for the end because, for me, this is where all (or almost) of the film's problems lie. The script is based on an alien invasion of Earth: coming from the bottom of the sea, aliens take the form of gigantic monsters, forcing the entire planet to unite and create metal monsters capable of breaking their faces. The first problem is the illogicality of these premises: how and when did aliens arrive in our world, and how could they penetrate the Earth's crust? This is not explained, nor how countries funded the construction and maintenance of such metallic machines, nor how they manage to walk and fight in an ocean as deep as the Pacific. How did they withstand the heat of the planet? How did they withstand the pressures on the ocean floor? The battles against the monsters almost always take place in the coastal area next to the big cities, threatened, in a clear allusion to films like “Godzilla” or “Transformer’s”. The dialogues also lack any kind of authenticity. The movie simply makes up for it all with tons of action.

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7 /10

Guillermo del Toro does “Transformers” meets “Godzilla” - and thanks to a spirited effort from Charlie Hunnam turns out quite a decent adventure. There’s some sort of rift between the surface dwellers and these prehistoric beasts that bide deep within the planet. They have an habit of coming up to visit every now and again and causing havoc, so mankind has developed these great nuclear-powered machines to guard the entrance and send them packing. Under the guidance of the grumpy “Pentecost” (Idris Elba) these “Jaegers” (that’s hunters in case you didn’t know) are our main line of defence, but when they start to become overwhelmed by the sheer size and power of their foes, the world must turn it’s hopes to the veteran “Becket” (Hunnam) and his novice partner “Mako” (Rinko Kikuchi) and hope they can find a way to seal this doorway once and forever. It takes a while to get going, indeed it could probably lose twenty minutes, but once it gets going there’s loads of action set amidst some impressive visual effects and featuring extended combat scenes that don’t just repeat themselves over and over. There’s a bit of testosterone zinging about between “Becket” and the other “Becket” (Diego Klattenhoff) and there’s also plenty of entertainingly geeky science from Bruno Gorman’s “Gottlieb” and Charlie Day’s “Dr. Geiszler” as the adventure hots up. Nobody watches these films for the writing, so little effort has been expended on that front beyond giving them something to do with their mouths whilst doing their own, more sophisticated, impressions of Sigourney Weaver from 1986 and it is all enjoyably easy on the eye for a couple of hours.

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