Where would you rather die? Here or in a Jaeger?

 First off let me say I’d die in a Jaeger every day of the week! Secondly, this film is exactly what I wanted it to be. So for those who didn’t like it, fair enough it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but what did you expect from a film purely based on massive monsters being taken down by massive robots.

I’ve been a fan of Del Toro since Pans Labryinth, his way of filming and imagination brings a new lease of life to the cinematic world. You can always tell your watching a Del Toro film and that is part of his masterpiece. When I first saw the trailer to this film I was ecstatic, what massive geek doesn’t want to see this? And then you see that they’ve employed Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunman and many more, it’s already starting to become a cult classic before it’s even screened, and you start to let your imagination run away with you… if we’ve got Kaijus then we must have Godzilla! Man I couldn’t handle the build up to this film!

Then I saw it… and man was I impressed! I’ve read a lot saying that the story line was poor and the CGI was too much. What do people honestly want? We’re not looking at Shakespearean masterpiece. We’re looking at cinema for what it is, a form of escapism, a place you can go and for an hour plus and imagine yourself in another world, and Del Toro allows that.

From the opening scene we are thrown into the action, a voice over from Hunman explains the Kaijus on their destructive path and then explains what we did to combat them… the Jaeger programme. We’re shown snippets of Jaegers vs Kaijus and it looks epic. We’re told of humanities inevitable downfall of our own making and then we meet Hunman’s character Reilly, an over eager show off who fails to listen to his orders. This is shown when he ignores the orders of the indomitable Marshal Pentecost (Elba) and loses his brother to a Kaiju and has to pilot a Jaeger on his own, which is almost impossible. Fast forward five years and the Jaeger programme is all but finished the Kaijus aren’t stopping and there’s only a few to save us…

If you love big action films with monsters, robots, heroes, aliens, love, jealousy and a little bit of Charlie Day then this is the film for you. It’s a thrill ride of seat gripping adventure that won’t disappoint.