Pacific Rim
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: July 12, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 48 Critic Reviews
Positive:
32
Mixed:
12
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The DissolveMike D'AngeloJul 11, 2013
Pacific Rim never amounts to more than the sum of its setpieces, but it delivers on the promise of its premise. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonJul 10, 2013
If Del Toro is pitching for an audience of 12-year-old boys (and we do mean boys: this is old-school macho), he’s done a bang-up job. Still, there are times when Pacific Rim could be the work of any jobbing Hollywood director – the warmth and idiosyncracy that characterises Del Toro’s finest work, from Pan’s Labyrinth to Hellboy 2, is absent. Read full review
60
The GuardianAndrew PulverJul 8, 2013
Pacific Rim's wafer-thin psychodrama and plot-generator dialogue provides little for the human component to get their teeth into. Read full review
60
EmpireIan NathanJul 8, 2013
Del Toro is giving scope to a boyhood lust for mayhem, the multi-million-dollar equivalent of kicking over sandcastles and torturing insects. There is something infectiously juvenile in that. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJul 15, 2013
It is possible to applaud Pacific Rim for the efficacy of its business model while deploring the tale that has been engendered — long, loud, dark, and very wet. You might as well watch the birth of an elephant. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJul 12, 2013
The Kaijus make zombies look like wusses, so at least the fights in this film are battles royal. But overload sets in early, and it all turns into battle boring. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJul 12, 2013
Pacific Rim made me marvel at the technology of movies, but never the magic of them. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJul 11, 2013
"Could be worse" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of Pacific Rim, but my head is still ringing, and hurting, from long stretches of this aliens vs. robots extravaganza that are no better than the worst brain-pounders of the genre. Read full review
50
TimeRichard CorlissJul 11, 2013
You get 45 minutes of awesome encased in 90 minutes of yawnsome. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanJul 11, 2013
All performances remain irrelevant in the face of such expensive, explosive combat and destruction, and there the film excels: You will feel blown back into your seat, starting 40 seconds into the story. Read full review
42
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJul 10, 2013
If your basic movie needs demand a little bit more -- logical premises; interesting, marginally original characters; dialogue that doesn’t reek of throaty, aspirational monologue after monologue -- Pacific Rim will leave you feeling hollow and wanting. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin ChangJul 8, 2013
Although assembled with consummate care and obsessive attention to visual detail, Pacific Rim manages only fitful engagement and little in the way of real wonderment, suspense or terror. Read full review
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