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Pacific Rim
Directed byGuillermo del Toro
Screenplay by
Story byTravis Beacham
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyGuillermo Navarro
Edited by
  • John Gilroy
  • Peter Amundson
Music byRamin Djawadi
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • July 1, 2013 (2013-07-01) (Mexico City)
  • July 12, 2013 (2013-07-12) (United States)
Running time
131 minutes[1][2]
CountryUnited States[3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$190 million[4]
Box office$411 million[2]

Pacific Rim[a] is a 2013 American military science fiction monster movie directed by Guillermo del Toro, with a screenplay written by Travis Beacham with del Toro and story written by Beacham. It is the first movie in the Pacific Rim franchise. The movie stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, and Ron Perlman. The movie is set in the future, when Earth is at war with the Kaiju,[b] colossal sea monsters which have emerged from an interdimensional portal on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. To combat the monsters, humanity unites to create the Jaegers,[c] gigantic humanoid mechas, each controlled by two co-pilots whose minds are joined by a mental link called the Drift.

Principal photography began on November 14, 2011, in Toronto and lasted through to April 2012. The movie was produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was released on July 12, 2013, in 3D, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D and 4DX, receiving generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its performances, direction, storyline, action sequences, visual effects, musical score, and nostalgic style. While it underperformed at the box office in the United States, it was highly successful in other markets, thus becoming a box office success.[12] It earned a worldwide total of $411 million—earning $136 million in China alone, its largest market—becoming Del Toro's most commercially successful movie. The movie is regarded as an homage to kaiju, mecha, and anime media.[13][14]

A sequel titled Pacific Rim Uprising was released on March 23, 2018, with Universal Pictures as the movie's distributor.

Plot

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In 2013, the Earth's cities are attacked by Kaiju, very large monsters who come from a portal on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. To battle them, the nations in the Pacific Rim build the Jaegars: very large robots piloted by two people whose brains are linked to the robots. This allows the pilots to control the robots using their mind, and the robots do the same actions that the pilots do. Although the Jaegars work well in killing the Kaiju, the attacks happen more often and are more powerful. By 2025, the governments of the Pacific Rim have ended the Jaegar project and build very large walls to protect humans from the Kaiju. Most of the movie is set in this period, focusing on the war's later days.

Notes

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  1. ↑ Officially billed as Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Pacific Rim[5][6][7]
  2. ↑ The name of the monsters comes from the Japanese word kaijū (怪獣, 'strange creature, monster'). Japanese lacks a plural form for its words, but it is often common for Japanese loanwords into English to receive English-style pluralization.[8][9][10] Travis Beacham has said that he believes both kaiju and kaijus to be correct within the film's universe, although he prefers the former.[11]
  3. ↑ The name of the mechas comes from the German word Jäger ('hunter'). In German, the plural form for this word occurs in the definite article rather than as a suffix to the word itself (der Jäger is 'the hunter'; die Jäger is 'the hunters'). As this is an English-language film, it specifically uses the plural jaegers.

References

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  1. ↑ "PACIFIC RIM (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. July 9, 2013. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Pacific Rim". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Pacific Rim (EN)". Lumiere. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
  4. ↑ Stewart, Andrew; Oldham, Stuart (June 26, 2013). "Is Pacific Rim Doomed to Be This Year's Battleship?". Variety. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Pacific Rim". Legendary Entertainment. April 14, 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  6. ↑ "PACIFIC RIM Production Notes and Images". SciFi Japan. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  7. ↑ "10 Contenders Remain in VFX Oscar® Race". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  8. ↑ Sacks, Ethan (July 7, 2013). "The Kaijus and Jaegers of Guillermo del Toro's 'Pacific Rim' are modern updates on classic movie monsters like Godzilla". nydailynews.com. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  9. ↑ Mr. Beaks (August 24, 2011). "Guillermo Del Toro And Mr. Beaks Discuss DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, PACIFIC RIM And The Far-From-Used-Up Future Of AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS!". aintitcool.com. Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved July 1, 2013.
  10. ↑ Woerner, Meredith (July 1, 2013). "Unbelievable Pacific Rim video reveals all of the Kaiju's secrets". Gizmodo. Retrieved July 1, 2013.[permanent dead link]
  11. ↑ Beacham, Travis. "The grammar of Pacific Rim". the principle fantastic. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  12. ↑ Mendelson, Scott (September 2, 2013). "Pacific Rim And More Domestic 'Flops' That Became Global Hits". Forbes. Retrieved September 3, 2013.
  13. ↑ Axinto, Jemarc (April 24, 2014). "Pacific Rim: In-depth study of the influence of Anime". The Artifice. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  14. ↑ Schwerdtfeger, Conner (January 3, 2018). "How Much Guillermo Del Toro Was Involved With Pacific Rim 2". Cinema Blend. Retrieved June 25, 2018.

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