As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to the mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow.
After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.
The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures.
An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.
In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
When 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. Written by
Del Torro
The sound for the Kaiju's roars were comprised of layer upon layer of animal roars and growls, which were filtered, sped up, and slowed down to create the roar of alien behemoths. Then, to add emotion and a sense of intelligence, supervising sound editor Scott Martin Gershin and director Guillermo del Toro added samples of their own voices. See more »
Goofs
CGI Blood: When Mako points out to Marshall Pentecost that his nose is bleeding, the blood drips from his nose to the top of his shirt collar, despite the collar being under his chin. The blood should have fallen onto his shirt front. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Raleigh Becket:
[narrating]
When I was a kid, whenever I'd feel small or lonely, I'd look up at the stars. Wondered if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world, it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions. The Breach. I was fifteen when the first Kaiju made land in San Francisco.
[pause]
Raleigh Becket:
By the time tanks, jets and missiles took it down, six days and 35 miles later, ...
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Crazy Credits
After all the credits have rolled, a roaring noise can be heard suggesting that one/some of the monsters are still alive. See more »
This horrible excuse for a movie is the epitome of everything that is wrong with film-making these days. Style over substance. Visually stunning but devoid of everything else that makes a good film.
Idris Elba was horribly miscast as was practically everyone else and I can't honestly say I have ever watched a film that was so empty and vacuous, so bereft of anything approaching a good performance. It's almost a credit to say that every facet of the movie was so utterly atrocious.
By far the worst thing Guillermo Del Toro has made or ever will make and I'm sure he'll look back on it and think 'what the hell was I doing?'
It pains me to say that Transformers 2 was better which tells you absolutely everything you need to know. Avoid this clichéd CGI tripe at all costs. Having a colostomy bag fitted would be more fun.
I would give it a negative mark out of 10 if I could. If this is where film-making is going, we're all going to hell in a handbasket.
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This horrible excuse for a movie is the epitome of everything that is wrong with film-making these days. Style over substance. Visually stunning but devoid of everything else that makes a good film.
Idris Elba was horribly miscast as was practically everyone else and I can't honestly say I have ever watched a film that was so empty and vacuous, so bereft of anything approaching a good performance. It's almost a credit to say that every facet of the movie was so utterly atrocious.
By far the worst thing Guillermo Del Toro has made or ever will make and I'm sure he'll look back on it and think 'what the hell was I doing?'
It pains me to say that Transformers 2 was better which tells you absolutely everything you need to know. Avoid this clichéd CGI tripe at all costs. Having a colostomy bag fitted would be more fun.
I would give it a negative mark out of 10 if I could. If this is where film-making is going, we're all going to hell in a handbasket.