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45 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 65IGNIGNPacific Rim Uprising is a loyal, if unremarkable, successor to the giddy original.
- 60Time OutTime OutThere’s a directness and swift pace to the first hour or so that works on an elemental level, and the final act is a delirious sugar rush of city-smashing spectacle (in Tokyo, of course, which has been evacuated to avoid any pesky collateral damage), delivering precisely the goods the movie promises.
- 60The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeIt might drift out of the memory just as easily as it drifted in, but there’s a goofy likability to Pacific Rim: Uprising, a primal thrill to be had, and a confident slickness behind it that means, despite a nearly two-hour running time, it doesn’t outstay its welcome.
- 60New York Daily NewsEthan SacksNew York Daily NewsEthan SacksDeKnight shows he can pilot a CGI fight sequence as well as his predecessor, Guillermo Del Toro (“The Shape of Water”). These movies can be fun once the colossal foes start grappling. They’re even more fun with fewer explanations and more explosions. A movie about massive monster-fighting robots doesn’t need so much engineering.
- 60Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramRespectable. Boyega adds real bounce and DeKnight delivers spectacle, even if the plot doesn’t strain too far from the original’s crash-bang formula.
- 42IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichA generic and diverting sequel that corrects some of the original’s biggest mistakes while also highlighting some of its more eccentric charms, “Uprising” drops us into a world that’s much richer than what the previous film left behind.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckLacking the stylistic flair provided by del Toro in the original, this sequel directed by Steven S. DeKnight (TV's Daredevil and Spartacus) becomes increasingly tiresome in its cliched plotting and characterizations, hackneyed dialogue and numbingly repetitive, visually incoherent action sequences.
- 30VarietyNick SchagerVarietyNick SchagerPacific Rim Uprising delivers plentiful CG mayhem.... What it lacks, though, is both del Toro’s trademark Lovecraftian imagery (all slick tentacles and dank subterranean locales) and the sense of thunderous heft that the Mexican auteur bestowed upon his titans.
- 20TheWrapDan CallahanTheWrapDan CallahanPacific Rim Uprising has zero emotional pull.