Luther goes out and grabs himself a couple of Americans sticks them in a big robot and asks them to punch godzillas mates into oblivion. The big lizards turn up through a hole in the sea and try to eat large cities for some inexplicable reason. Luthers plan goes a little tits up and the united nations tell him to pack it in coz some guy likes walls. Typical Luther style he shoves his middle finger up and carries on regardless. He then hires a geordie pretending to be american, a londoner pretending to be Australian, stereotypical Russians and Chinese and a Japanese lady. Two sort of scientists also tag along and ramble on about maths and biology and wotnot until Ron Perlman walks in makes a joke and then walks out again. After all that they decide that yes robots giving giant lizards an ass whoopin' is immensely fun and resume where they started.
A lot of comparisons seem to be flying around between this film and transformers. The first that comes to mind is large robots............then I've got nothing, I mean seriously just because they have robots does not mean they are alike. The crucial difference is that Guillermo Del Toro is a great film maker and Michael Bay is a boob. In this Del Toro creates a simple yet effective premise and builds a beautiful world around it. The robots, or Jaegers, look brilliant and like they could actually exist and the monsters, or Kaiju, are inventive and unique. The film starts where it means to go on by chucking you full on into the action with a ear drum bursting fight scene. Here lies another difference in that Del Toro realises that you don't need to shake the camera round as if having a seizure in order to demonstrate action sequences. You can see and follow everything that is going on and get a real sense of the scale of the fights with buildings and other scenery crumbling away with each gigantic hit. Now that that has been said the film is by no means fawless and is arguably Del Toros worst film but that is no bad thing. The acting is pretty shoddy from all but a few. Idris Elba is great but then again he usually is, the main guy is ok considering he is a geordie playing a convincing yank and Ron Perlman is a legend but aside from that it is lacking somewhat. Also I did find myself getting a little bored in the middle as they decide to focus on character development and cheese instead of fighting. Don't get me wrong I like a bit of story but don't have it all in one big stilton ridden chunk, break it up with some lizard smashing. Ultimately you will fall into one of two camps with this film, if you like robots and giant lizards ripping each other apart you won't be able to find much better, if not then go watch the notebook or something you ponce.
Verdict: 3.5/5
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