Sem dúvida uma das grandes esperanças para o cinema de ficção científica em 2013 e sem dúvida um dos filmes que mais me desapontou recentemente.
Pacific Rim tinha tudo para ser um filme espectacular: robôs gigantes, monstros alienígenas a invadir a Terra, um mundo unido em desespero. A meu ver, falhou quase por completo.
O enredo tem tantas incongruências que se torna difícil entrar na história. Desde governos que optam por construir um muro no oceano para parar os monstros que destroem cidades inteiras, que evoluem e que vão continuar a aparecer até fendas dimensionais que detectam e só deixam passar seres com um determinado DNA, a não ser que se leve um corpo connosco ou então que se venha no sentido inverso, haveria tanto para dizer que este texto se tornaria desnecessariamente longo e entediante.
Os actores também não estiveram bem. Não é o caso de não haver uma interpretação que se destaque como boa, é mais o de todas elas serem medíocres a miseráveis. Aqui de notar uma especialmente má, a de Charlie Hunnam, que tem o papel principal e fala constantemente como se tivesse uma qualquer oligofrenia ou perturbação da fala, o que, justiça lhe seja feita, se deve tanto à sua interpretação como às terríveis frases escritas para a sua personagem.
A nível de imagem, pelo contrário, o filme está bastante bom. Os Kaiju parecem bem reais, ainda que a certo ponto lembrem todos variações do mesmo modelo base (o que de qualquer forma a história justificaria) e os Jaegers metem qualquer Transformer recente num bolso.
Infelizmente tive aqui mais um problema com a concepção deste filme. O movimento dos Jaegers não faz grande sentido. Têm uma mobilidade dos braços quase orgânica sem que nunca seja minimamente explicada a sua capacidade de propulsão dos membros em qualquer direcção. Houve um momento em que uma mente iluminada se lembrou desta situação e criou um murro que é gerado por uma espécie de rocket no cotovelo. Este foi, no entanto, um momento único, que me deixou a sonhar com um filme em que fossem exploradas as verdadeiras limitações de ter que se usar uma máquina deste tamanho em combate.
A realização, de resto, foi terrível. Não bastando os clichés do conceito e do argumento, até mesmo as cenas e planos de filmagem são de fazer revirar os olhos. Se não soubesse de antemão, seria difícil convencer-me que se trata de um filme de Guillermo del Toro.
Assim sendo, Pacific Rim foi uma grande desilusão, que não recomendo a ninguém excepto a quem se interesse somente pelos efeitos especiais e mesmo a esses aconselho baixas expectativas.
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One of my greatest hopes for sci-fi cinema in 2013 and also one of my biggest disappointments. Pacific Rim had everything to make it spectacular: giant robot, alien monsters invading Earth and a world united against the threat. Yet it failed almost completely.
The plot has so many holes its hard to believe the story. From governments that decide to build a wall in the ocean to try to stop ever-evolving monsters that are capable of razing entire cities to dimensional rifts that can detect a specific DNA and filter everything else, but only in one direction or unless you can take a dead carcass with you to cross the rift, there would be so many things to criticize this text would end up far too long and boring.
The acting was also a problem. It's not so much the lack of a very strong interpretation but more the fact that they were all mediocre to down right miserable. Charlie Hunnam was specially bad as the main character, who often reminded me of someone mentally challenged or with some kind of speech disorder, though to be fair he owes it as much to himself as to the terrible dialogues written for him.
The visual effects, however, are quite good. The Kaiju seem almost real, though they do look like variations of the same basic model (the story explains this somewhat) and the Jaegers are much better than any Transformer you might have seen recently.
Unfortunately this brings up another one of my criticisms towards the film. The movement of the Jaegers doesn't quite make sense. They have an almost organic ability to move their upper limbs with momentum towards any direction and this is never even slightly explained. There was a single moment where a Jaeger uses a rocket in its elbow to give speed to his arm and produce a strong punch. This left me wishing for a film where this kind of limitations would be thoroughly explored making it much more interesting to consider giant humanoid fighting machines.
The direction was awful. Not only did we have all the clichés in concept and argument, even the scenes and filming had me eye-rolling all the time. If I hadn't known, I wouldn't believe this was directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Pacific Rim was a fiasco that I recommend to no one but those who are purely interested in special effects and even to those I advise keeping low expectations.
The plot has so many holes its hard to believe the story. From governments that decide to build a wall in the ocean to try to stop ever-evolving monsters that are capable of razing entire cities to dimensional rifts that can detect a specific DNA and filter everything else, but only in one direction or unless you can take a dead carcass with you to cross the rift, there would be so many things to criticize this text would end up far too long and boring.
The acting was also a problem. It's not so much the lack of a very strong interpretation but more the fact that they were all mediocre to down right miserable. Charlie Hunnam was specially bad as the main character, who often reminded me of someone mentally challenged or with some kind of speech disorder, though to be fair he owes it as much to himself as to the terrible dialogues written for him.
The visual effects, however, are quite good. The Kaiju seem almost real, though they do look like variations of the same basic model (the story explains this somewhat) and the Jaegers are much better than any Transformer you might have seen recently.
Unfortunately this brings up another one of my criticisms towards the film. The movement of the Jaegers doesn't quite make sense. They have an almost organic ability to move their upper limbs with momentum towards any direction and this is never even slightly explained. There was a single moment where a Jaeger uses a rocket in its elbow to give speed to his arm and produce a strong punch. This left me wishing for a film where this kind of limitations would be thoroughly explored making it much more interesting to consider giant humanoid fighting machines.
The direction was awful. Not only did we have all the clichés in concept and argument, even the scenes and filming had me eye-rolling all the time. If I hadn't known, I wouldn't believe this was directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Pacific Rim was a fiasco that I recommend to no one but those who are purely interested in special effects and even to those I advise keeping low expectations.
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