Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim (2013) – There’s a goodly amount of dumbness saturating this film, but it certainly looks awesome, and while Hunnam’s having a little trouble with that accent, there are some fun performances by Elba, Perlman, and GlaDOS; but let’s face facts: you’re watching it purely to see mechas and monsters punching each other in the face, and on that front, it’s reasonably satisfying…once it gets around to it; say, where was that sword—easily the most useful weapon they had—the whole time? 6