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It seemed like a good idea ...

Life, Published on 23/03/2018

» Considering the considerable financial and critical success enjoyed by the original Pacific Rim in 2013, it was only a matter of time before we received a sequel. Pacific Rim: Uprising, released in theatres this week, brings back several familiar faces, with even more of the cataclysmic robot-versus-kaiju battles than its original. But the boost in spectacle doesn't come without a cost, as the sequel seems to have lost much of the soul that made the original special.