Film Review – Pacific Rim

Perhaps after his attempt to make “The Hobbit” was shut down by studio
financial woes, director Guillermo del Toro was aching to kick out the
jams. It’s been five years since his last moviemaking assignment, the
fantastically bizarre “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” which is probably
why his latest, “Pacific Rim,” feels more like a visionary flexing
atrophying muscles than a bold creative step forward in a most colorful
career. Gone are the quirk, crunch, and magical dealings of del Toro’s
past work, replaced here with a heaping helping of noise and scraping
metal, which for 80 minutes would be an irresistible proposition. 100
minutes would be quite entertaining. Unfortunately, “Pacific Rim” runs
130 minutes, and its repetitive action and cornball dialogue eventually
sands off the senses, lessening the matinee euphoria del Toro aims to
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