The rest of the story takes up about half an hour and is cut into tiny segments throughout the film. The story starts out with a couple of quick action clips spanned over seven years. There is basically a hole, or trans-dimensional portal, located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and huge monsters are making their way through. And this is where the whole movie goes right down the drain...literally.
The story then skips to five more years down the road. Seemingly, this is where the script for the entire movie must have been sucked into that trans-dimensional black hole, because it is nonexistent from here on. The acting performances are cut down to short and choppy dialogue that give you just enough personal interaction to realize that there are a few humans in the movie...barely. Most of the movie consists of monster on robot action, and to get this film done in two hours, then we are left with a story made up of cut-scenes. It is almost impossible to form any kind of connection with the dumb characters you see on the screen, because you only see them long enough to witness their stupid decisions before the cutaway. Basically the characters are whittled down to their basic stereotypes and have less personality than the mindless robots they control.
Pacific Rim while has the beautiful 3D effects and action to make it a blockbuster film--in the end it fails horribly at being anything else. The awful Australian accents, the nonexistent plot, and terrible scriptwriting make this something that would have been better off as anything else but a movie.
Score: 1.5 out of 10