The last few weeks have seen a major media push from the people behind the upcoming gargantuan cinematic super smash melee, Pacific Rim. With several bits of behind the scenes footage, television spots and this, being the fourth official trailer for co-writer and director Guillermo del Toro‘s latest epic masterwork, I personally expect this film to perform marvelously at the box office, as fans continue to demand that del Toro just shut up and take their money already, myself included. So, let’s hope those less-than-optimistic tracking numbers are nothing more than a glitch in what some people choose to proclaim as the film’s own pending apocalypse.
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)—who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
