Pacific Rim - Review

Around its release, this movie got a lot of hype. I've been on the internet long enough to judge movies based on their hype, and from what I heard this movie wasn't so bad.

Turns out I was right, kinda. Sorta. Maybe.


SPOILERS ALERT

'Pacific Rim' is an alien/apocalypse movie. Yup, another one. Seem to be getting a lot of those lately, huh? Don't believe me? *Coughavengerscough*

I really don't want to summarize this movie myself, so cue Wikipedia:

In 2013, human cities come under attack by the Kaijus: colossal beasts who come through an interdimensional portal on the Pacific Ocean floor. To combat them, the Pacific Rim nations build the Jaegers: equally colossal humanoid war machines. Each Jaeger is piloted by two people whose brains are linked to share the overwhelming mental load of operating the machine. The Jaegers are initially effective, but many are destroyed as the Kaijus grow more powerful and their attacks more frequent. In 2025, the involved governments deem the Jaeger program unviable, and discontinue it in favor of building massive coastal walls to protect humanity from the Kaijus. The four remaining Jaegers are redeployed to Hong Kong to defend the coast until the wall's completion. Jaeger commander Stacker Pentecost (Elba) devises a plan to end the war by destroying the portal with a thermonuclear bomb.
Pentecost approaches retired pilot Raleigh Becket (Hunnam) and convinces him to return and pilot Gipsy Danger, the Jaeger he and his brother Yancy once piloted. During a mission off the coast of Alaska in 2020, Yancy was killed by a Kaiju while connected to his brother, traumatizing Raleigh. In Hong Kong, Raleigh is antagonized by Chuck Hansen (Kazinsky), co-pilot of the Jaeger Striker Eureka, who sees Raleigh as unreliable. Later, Raleigh tests with potential co-pilots to find one with whom he connects strongly, which ensures effective performance in battle. Sensing a strong connection, Raleigh demands to be partnered with Mako Mori (Kikuchi), the director of the Jaeger refurbishment project. Pentecost opposes, Mako being his adoptive daughter, but he eventually relents. During the duo's initial test run, Mako becomes engrossed in a childhood memory of the Kaiju attack which orphaned her, and nearly discharges Gipsy Danger's weapons in the hangar; Pentecost deems her unready for combat. Later, the other Jaegers are tasked with fending off a double Kaiju attack in Hong Kong. When the Kaijus destroy two Jaegers and disable Striker Eureka, Pentecost sends out Raleigh and Mako to take a last stand with Gipsy Danger.
Meanwhile, Newton Geiszler (Day)—a scientist studying the Kaijus—assembles a device that allows him to establish a mental link with a Kaiju brain fragment. He discovers that the Kaijus are not wild beasts but living weapons sharing a hive mind and fighting at the behest of a race of alien colonists. Under Pentecost's instruction, Geiszler seeks out Hannibal Chau (Perlman), a major figure in the trafficking of Kaiju parts, and attempts to procure an intact Kaiju brain to repeat the experiment. After Gipsy Danger kills both Kaijus, Chau's crew move in to harvest parts, but discover one Kaiju to be pregnant. The newborn bursts from its mother and swallows Chau before dying. Geiszler links with the newborn Kaiju's brain, and learns that the reason all previous attempts to infiltrate and destroy the portal have failed is that the portal only opens for Kaiju DNA.
The two remaining Jaegers commence the plan to destroy the portal; Pentecost and Chuck carry the bomb with Striker Eureka, escorted by Raleigh and Mako in Gipsy Danger. They find the portal guarded by three Kaijus. The ensuing battle renders Striker Eureka unable to deliver the bomb. Pentecost instructs Raleigh to use Gipsy Danger's nuclear reactor core as an improvised bomb; he and Chuck sacrifice themselves, detonating the original bomb in an effort to clear a path. Considering Geiszler's discovery, Raleigh and Mako seize the final Kaiju with Gipsy Danger and use it to enter the portal. Once inside, Raleigh ejects Mako's escape pod, initiates the core's overload sequence and ejects himself. Gipsy Danger's core detonates, laying waste to the alien colonists and destroying the portal. Mako and Raleigh's escape pods surface safely in the Pacific, and the duo embrace as rescue helicopters arrive.
In a post-credits scene, Chau cuts his way out of the newborn Kaiju's stomach.

END MAJOR SPOILERS

Yeah yeah, so I'm lazy. I would try summarizing it if my finger wasn't cut at the moment.
So, that was Pacific Rim. And I need to mention one huge, gaping plothole before I go.
SWORD.
There's this one scene where they're fighting some Kaiju and run out of plasma ammunition. Raleigh's like "We're doomed" but Mako's like "Na-ah, we got a sword" and they pull that sucker out and slice the Kaiju to bits, easily.

Well first of all, DEUS EX MACHINAAAAAA. Second, WHY HAVE YOU NOT BEEN USING THIS WEAPON THE WHOLE TIME. IT WOULD BE A WHOLE LOT EASIER IF YOU HAD. Even HISHE (How It Should Have Ended) poked fun at this hole.
Why, movie? Why you do this? You've been having grand slugfests with the aliens all this time, but oh no, turns out their weakness was sharp pointy things! Who knew? Daaah.

Other than that, I'd say it was good. Not spectacular. But good. The visuals were impressive and the idea was cool, but that was balanced out by a profuse amount of swearing and a rather clichéd feel to the entire thing. If you'd like to see it, bully for you.

Stupid sword why the for the love of Mary did they not  use it earlier dim-witted idiots it would have made everything so...