The film “Pacific Frontier” (2013), the actors for which were selected very well, is an excellent blockbuster. What this movie is about, we’ll talk later in the article.
About the film
The director is Guillermo del Toro, known for such creations as The Labyrinth of the Faun, The Devil's Ridge and the series Strain. The master's pen is felt everywhere.
Earth shudders from an alien threat: a portal has opened at the bottom of the ocean through which kaiju giants penetrate. After the reflection of the first attack, everyone calmed down, but in vain, because the second followed. Then the countries of the world came together to create a weapon capable of containing the onslaught of aliens - giant mechanisms - the Huntsman.
In appearance they look like transformers, but are controlled by a couple of people whose minds are united in a bunch - “Drift”. This is where the whole highlight lies. The actors of the film “Pacific Frontier” (2013) were selected so as to look good in pairs. According to the plot, their thoughts merge together: what one knew, both comprehend. The channel works in two directions.
Beginning, actors and roles
The film “Pacific Frontier” (2013) begins with the fact that the program for the development of “Huntsman” was curtailed, since the preference was given to the construction of the coast wall.
It is here that the main character is first mentioned - Riley Becket, whose role is played by Charlie Hunnam. His story is tragic. He lost his brother, with whom they were “connected” while controlling a robot with the call sign “Tramp”. Unable to survive the loss, Riley quit the ranks of the pilots of military vehicles and decided to devote his life to building the wall. The remaining giant defenders were transferred to Hong Kong, where they counter the attacks of kaiju that emerge from the crevice.
Set, actors and roles
The Pacific line of defense of mankind has reached a certain equilibrium. Monsters continue to appear, but they are immediately killed by the Huntsman. That was until the idea came to the scientists to study the enemy better.
Biologist Newton Geisler (played by Charlie Day) and mathematician German Gottlieb (Burn Gorman) decide to conduct a risky experiment - enter the "Drift" with the kaiju brain.
Destruction
It is at this moment that the ingenious author's idea of Guillermo del Toro appears. The idea is really unusual and no one has ever put forward a similar idea in the film industry. Therefore, one cannot call the template film “Pacific Frontier” (2013) in any way. Actors, as already mentioned above, were selected so that they look good together.
And Mako Mori (actress Rinko Kikuchi) was chosen to play the role of a desperate partner. They had to unite their minds in Drift and control the Tramp to repulse the attack of completely new kaiju.
As you know, communication works both ways. Therefore, not only scientists learned better than the enemy, but monsters received a lot of information about the Earth. In view of this, the next giant cut down all the electricity by the discharge of an electromagnetic pulse. The "Tramp" robot remained in service, as it was developed on the basis of a nuclear reactor.
Climax
Mankind managed to win the battle, but at the cost of massive destruction, because an unequal battle took place not only on water, but also on land. On top of that, the second monster turned out to be winged and tried to drag the Huntsman into space.
No sooner had the main characters to rest, as the leadership sends them directly to hell - from the crack appeared the largest monster in history.
The battle with him led not only to losses, but also to new knowledge. For example, it became known that the portal responds to kaiju DNA and has a system for recognizing friends and foes. As a result, in order to get rid of the alien threat forever, we had to use the Tramp reactor as a bomb. Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi (the crew of a combat vehicle) managed to eject in time, ahead of the inhabitants of another dimension only for a moment.
Summary
In conclusion, it should be said that the film turned out to be really strong. Although the halls of movie theaters were mostly packed with children and teenagers, the picture can be safely called a family movie.
The actors of the "Pacific Frontier" (photo below) can hardly be called famous. The director deliberately attracted new Hollywood stars to the project. For example, if you put on the main role of Arnold Schwarzenegger, then the audience will wait for a dizzying action movie with chases, fights and shootings. Moreover, according to the law of the genre, bullets should fly around the main character side, or slightly scratch. With Jean-Claude Van Damme, the same thing, but with great emphasis on hand-to-hand combat.
Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam and the pretty little Rinko Kikuchi - many viewers saw these actors for the first time only in the film "Pacific Frontier" (2013). The idea of the director Guillermo del Toro worked, and the viewer liked the "fresh" cast.
The film received many positive reviews. It is unusual, colorful, dynamic and striking in its scale. After all, actions take place around the world. The filmmakers found that middle ground in the story, thanks to which they do not throw the viewer's attention from one part of the world to another, but only smoothly move them like figures on a chess field.
Cinema, definitely worth watching. It has everything: an excellent acting, feelings and serious mistakes that entailed certain consequences. And the image of monsters simply makes envy of the creators' fantasies envious. Highest mark!
In May 2018, the premiere of the sequel to the film Pacific Rim (2013) is expected. Actors Scott Eastwood, Charlie Day and Bern Gorman returned to work. A new character will appear in the performance of John Boyeg.