Anyone who thinks this film is good needs to reassess their life. This was my third attempt at watching it, and I only managed to get through it in three sittings. I'm still trying to watch it now – Idris Elba is giving a motivational speech. Almost finished, thank the Lord.
Where to begin with how bad it is... The concept is dumb, the dialogue is terrible, the plot is cack, the characters are flat. So much so that I was actually rooting for the Kaiju to win. Seriously – these poor monsters are just trying to get on with things and the humans keep fucking with them.
I don't understand where they got the technology for doing "the drift", and I don't understand how the two people control the machine from within. No one seems to mind that these Jaegers cause as much damage to the cities as the Kaiju do. None of it makes any sense, but we the audience are supposed to just lap it all up.
Everything that happens feels so predictable and so obvious that it makes watching the film a chore. The only good thing about this film was Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I'm shocked that this was made by the same guy as Pan's Labyrinth.
Pile of shit. 1/10
