Pacific Rim (2013)

Pacific Rim rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.9/10· 556K votes

Rotten Tomatoes72%

Metacritic65%

TMDb6.926/10· 13K votes

With 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.9/10 on IMDb and 65/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Pacific Rim

Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Cast of Pacific Rim

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  Charlie Hunnam

  as Raleigh Becket

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  Rinko Kikuchi

  as Mako Mori

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  Idris Elba

  as Stacker Pentecost

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  Max Martini

  as Herc Hansen

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  Clifton Collins Jr.

  as Tendo Choi

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  Ron Perlman

  as Hannibal Chau

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  Charlie Day

  as Dr. Newton Geiszler

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  Burn Gorman

  as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb

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  Robert Kazinsky

  as Chuck Hansen

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  Robert Maillet

  as Lt. Aleksis Kaidanovsky

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  Heather Doerksen

  as Lt. Sasha Kaidanovsky

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  Larry Joe Campbell

  as Tommy T

Pacific Rim facts

Budget

$180M

Box office

$411M

Collection

Pacific Rim Collection

Our take on Pacific Rim

Guillermo del Toro's 2013 science-fiction spectacle answers a wave of towering ocean-born invaders with equally colossal piloted robots, sending humanity's dwindling defenders into battle against creatures rising from the depths of the Pacific. With their forces nearly overwhelmed, survival hinges on two improbable heroes standing as a last line against the apocalypse. Del Toro plays the premise with genuine awe and craftsmanship, staging the monster-versus-machine clashes with heft, weather, and neon color rather than weightless chaos. It's earnest, big-hearted blockbuster filmmaking that treats its giant fantasy seriously. Perfect for viewers craving old-fashioned scale and creature-feature wonder, and anyone who wants their action loud, sincere, and unapologetically enormous.