Pacific Rim Uprising

This sequel to Guillermo del Toro's 2013 movie is not as slick as the original but it does the job quite well.

The plot follows on from the originals giant monsters called Kaiju invading the Earth and destroying mankinds cities, being fought by giant robots called Jaegers piloted by two people and armed to the teeth.

In the original film it was found that these monsters come from another universe and the breach that they use to reach the Earth is under the Pacific Ocean. The breach is closed by detonating a nuclear power plant on one of the Jaegers after the bomb they were going to use is detonated to kill the remaining Kaiju.

The fight saw Marshal Stacker Pentecost killed and he becomes a war hero.

In the sequel Pentecost's son, a former Jaeger pilot, is the main protagonist who lives his life in the wreak of the cities leveled by the Kaiju and gets money by stealing Jaeger parts for those wishing to build their own Jaegers, which is of course illegal.

Eventually Jake Pentecost is  reunited with the Jaeger program where a new enemy is being fought by the uprated Jaegers.

A new drone system and a rather aloof Japanese scientist and industrialist are the potential enemies but that might not be quite right.

It is an action packed film led by John Boyega as Jake who is familiar due to playing Finn in the recent Star Wars movies. Here he leads the film and he is very capable of doing so. Supported by Cailee Spaeny playing Amara Namani and Scott Eastwood as Nate Lambert a fellow Jaeger pilot to Jake.

The Jaegers are awesome and the monsters are rather larger especially the final beasty, this leads to the normal destruction of the cities which is the normal reason for a monster feature.

The original scientists Dr. Newton Geiszler and Dr. Hermann Gottlieb are back but in slightly different roles and they are pivotal to the plot.

I actually enjoyed the film although it will not be winning any awards it should impress as far as its special effects go and the acting is reasonably good and you warm to the main characters quite easily.

If you liked the original film you will like this one and do remember not to leave when the Pacific Rim Uprising logo is displayed at the end of the film because there is a short pre-credit scene that sets up the next film which could easily be better than the 2 previous ones.

Go and see it in the cinema as it needs to be seen on a big screen.