It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
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John Boyega
Jake Pentecost
Scott Eastwood
Nate Lambert
Cailee Spaeny
Amara Namani
Jing Tian
Liwen Shao
Rinko Kikuchi
Mako Mori
Burn Gorman
Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
Adria Arjona
Jules Reyes
Max Zhang
Marshal Quan
Charlie Day
Dr. Newton Geiszler
Madeleine McGraw
Young Amara Namani
Director
Steven S. DeKnight
Tagline
"Rise up."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$150,000,000
Revenue
$290,061,297
Production
Legendary Pictures, Double Dare You
Rodney Wollam
March 23, 2018
Transformers with some thought actually put into it! Plus, the always scrumptious Scott Eastwood always welcome. Yowza!
Dark Jedi
August 2, 2018
This movie is, to me, a quite nice special effects extravaganza. In some ways I actually liked this movie more than the first one. Sure, the underlying story is totally ludicrous. Come one, fighting giant monster with big clumsy robots that requires two people in some strange mind melt to maneuver is just ridiculous. Just send in a couple of fighter jets with some suitable devices that go boom ...
Gimly
September 27, 2018
Boyega makes for a slightly more engaging lead than Charlie Hunnam did in the original, (co-pilot Eastwood is merely **as** dull as Charlie Hunnam) but _Uprising_ has virtually the exact same ups and down as the first _Pacific Rim_. If you dig that movie, you'll probably dig this. If you hated it, you'll probably hate this. Me? I'm on the lower end of mixed, for both. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a ...
Peter89Spencer
April 5, 2020
The only thing that went wrong with this movie was Charlie Day turned out to be the surprise villain! But....the none-stop action was very awesome.
CinemaSerf
April 6, 2024
Reductive or not, there's a lot to be said for eye-candy, and luckily for Steven S. DeKnight he has recruited John Boyega and Scott Eastwood into this CGI-fest that picks up from the, dare I say, far superior enterprise from 2013. It's "Lambert" (Eastwood) who has to knock his new squadron into shape as they prepare to fight an even more deadly army of "Transformers" - nope, sorry, "Kaiju" - as th...
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