Pacific Rim [Blu-ray]

Overview

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro teams up with Legendary Pictures to bring audiences a unique take on the monster film with this sci-fi production. Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) stars as a washed-out controller and pilot of a series of robots called Jaegers, which are put into production after Earth is invaded by a species of giant monsters, the Kaijus. The Brothers Bloom's Rinko Kikuchi co-stars as a trainee whom Hunnam is psychically paired with in order to pilot the last beacon of hope -- a decommissioned Jaeger assigned to stop the Kaijus once and for all. Thor's Idris Elba leads the rest of the starring cast, which includes Charlie Day, Rob Kazinsky and Ron Perlman.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/15/2013
UPC:	0883929256518
Original Release:	2013
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:11:00

Special Features

Hours of bonus content take you inside the mind of acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro; 14 featurettes provide in-depth look at Kaijus, Jaegers, sets, stunts, sounds, effects, and the mythology and making of the film; Also includes the Director's Notebook The digital artistry of Pacific Rim; Audio Commentary

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Charlie Hunnam	Raleigh Becket
Idris Elba	Sensi
Rinko Kikuchi	Mako Mori
Diego Klattenhoff	Yancy Becket
Charlie Day	Dr. Newton Geiszler
Burn Gorman	Gottlieb
Max Martini	Herc Hansen
Clifton Collins Jr.	Ops Tendo Choi
Ron Perlman	Hannibal Chau
Brad William Henke	Construction Foreman
Larry Joe Campbell	Construction Worker
Mana Ashida	Young Mako
Santiago Segura	Wizened Man
Joe Pingue	Captain Merrit
Milton Barnes	McTighe,British UN Representative
Brian Frank	1st Officer
David Fox	Old Man on Beach
Jake Goodman	Child
Robin Thomas	American UN Representative
David Richmond Peck	Actor
Charles Luu	Wei Tang Triplet,Wei Tang Triplet
Lance Lu	Wei Tang Triplet
Robert Maillet	Lt. S. Kaidanovsky
Heather Doerksen	Lt. A. Kaidanovsky
Joshua Peace	Officer
Sebastian Pigott	Engineer
Victoria Marie	Chinese Girl in Anti-Kaiju Refuge
Roger Wong	Man in Anti-Kaiju Refuge,Hannibal Chau Thug
J.C. Kenny	TV Reporter
Jane Watson	Raleigh and Yancy's Mom
Robert Morse	Raleigh and Yancy's Dad
Paul Wyers	Young Raleigh
Tyler Stevenson	Young Yancy
Mike Chute	Saltchuck Crew
Duncan McLeod	Saltchuck Crew
Louis Paquette	Saltchuck Crew
Matthew G. Taylor	Saltchuck Crew
Terry Belleville	UN Representative
Frank T. Nakashima	UN Representative
Farzad Sadrian	UN Representative
Mishu Vellani	UN Representative
Clive Walton	UN Representative
Peter Kosaka	Young Mako's Father
Yiren Stark	Young Mako's Mother
Hubert Tran	Asian Boy
Trek Buccino	Young Newt
Drew Adkins	Young Gottlieb
Kelvin Lum	Hannibal Chau Thug
Soo David Chum Ling	Hannibal Chau Thug
Randy Lee	Hannibal Chau Thug
Jung-Yul Kim	Actor
Robert Kazinsky	Chuck Hansen,Actor
David Richmond-Peck	Canadian UN Representative
Ellen McLain	Gipsy Danger AI
Ramin Djawadi	Composer

Technical Credits

Guillermo del Toro

Travis Beacham

Patrick Melton

Marcus Dunstan

Guillermo del Toro	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
Travis Beacham	Screenwriter
Thomas Tull	Producer
Jon Jashni	Producer
Mary Parent	Producer
Callum Greene	Executive Producer,Producer
Anton Van Rooyen	Camera Operator
John Colavecchia	Camera Operator
Margery Simkin	Casting
Glen Gauthier	Sound Mixer,Sound Effects
Ryan Murphy	Sound Mixer
Csaba Wagner	Sound Effects
Dan Hegeman	Sound Effects
Peter Zinda	Sound Effects
Stephen P. Robinson	Sound Effects
Scott Wolf	Sound Effects
Tim Walston	Sound Effects
Charlie Campagna	Sound Effects
Scott Martin Gershin	Sound Effects
Jillian Share	Producer
Patrick Melton	Screenwriter
Marcus Dunstan	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim is awesome, scary, weird, exciting, exuberant, and ridiculous -- basically everything you want from a sci-fi action movie. And let's not mince words here: This isn't a drama with action elements; it's not a gothic horror set in space; this film is equal parts explosive action and nerdy science fiction, and that's it. If you're not on board with humans piloting robots to fight giant monsters, it's best to come to terms with that right now. Still interested? Here's the idea: One day, a huge, angry monster climbed out of a tectonic fault in the Pacific Ocean, and started destroying cities. Humans eventually killed it using bombs and tanks and what not, but another one came along six months later, then another, then another. Soon, humanity started pooling its defense resources to combat what was apparently an ongoing threat, constructing equally huge mechanical soldiers called Jaegers (a derivative of the word "hunter," but a concept referred to by those in the sci-fi know as a mech), which two pilots control together using a tandem neural interface that synchs directly with their brains. Using a mix of built-in weapons and hand-to-hand combat, the pilots fight and eventually kill the monsters, which they've determined are traveling to Earth through some kind of dimensional portal in the tectonic fault. And what do the humans call these monsters? Kaiju. This fact alone should tell you something. Kaiju originates as a Japanese word roughly translating as "strange monster," but more pertinently here, Kaiju is the name for this entire genre of sci-fi, where massive creatures step on buildings and threaten to destroy civilization. Godzilla movies are Kaiju films. But make no mistake, co-writer/director Guillermo del Toro didn't name his creatures Kaiju out of a lack of creativity, he's paying tribute here, as he does throughout the film. As a matter of fact, true nerdery aficionados will notice del Toro paying direct homage to the legendary kaiju/mech anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, if they look closely: Rinko Kikuchi's portrayal of a Jaeger pilot struggling with a traumatic past nods pretty clearly to Evangelion's character Rei Ayanami, with her anxious posture and bob haircut. She even has blue highlights. But all this isn't to say that you need to be a devoted fanboy in order to enjoy Pacific Rim. Far from it, you just need to enjoy enthralling action sequences and terrifying monsters. Which, of course, is exactly what we know del Toro can deliver.