Pacific Rim: Uprising [2018] (2 discs)

Director:	Steven S. DeKnight
Writer:	Emily Carmichael Kira Snyder Steven S. DeKnight T.S. Nowlin
Composer:	Lorne Balfe

Length:	111 minutes (1 hour 51 minutes)
MPAA Rating:	PG-13
Sorting Category:	SciFi
Sorting Tub:	India

IMDB Rating:	5.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes Rating:	44%
Amazon Rating:	4.0/5 stars
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Synopsis: Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.

Reaction: Not quite as fun as the first time around, and a fairly unnecessary sequel, but there are some interesting story developments based on what happened the first time around.

Personal Rating: 6/10

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Steven S. DeKnight	=>	Director / Writer
Emily Carmichael	=>	Writer
Kira Snyder	=>	Writer
T.S. Nowlin	=>	Writer
Lorne Balfe	=>	Composer

Adria Arjona	=>	Jules Reyes
Bridger Zadina	=>	Dean
Burn Gorman	=>	Hermann Gottlieb

Cailee Spaeny	=>	Amara Namani
Charlie Day	=>	Dr. Newton Geiszler

Ellen McLain	=>	Gipsy Avenger AI

Erik Aadahl	=>	November Ajax Voice ^(voice)

Ivanna Sakhno	=>	Cadet Viktoria

Jin Zhang	=>	Marshal Quan (as Max Zhang)
John Boyega	=>	Jake Pentecost

Josh Stamberg	=>	Amara's Father

Karan Brar	=>	Cadet Suresh
Levi Meaden	=>	Cadet Ilya
Lily Ji	=>	Cadet Meilin
Mackenyu	=>	Cadet Ryoichi
Madeleine McGraw	=>	Young Amara
Rahart Adams	=>	Cadet Tahima
Rinko Kikuchi	=>	Mako Mori

Robert Maillet	=>	Lt. S. Kaidanovsky ^(uncredited) ^{(archive footage)}

Scott Eastwood	=>	Nate Lambert

Shane Rangi	=>	Sonny's Crew #1
Shyrley Rodriguez	=>	Cadet Renata
Tian Jing	=>	Liwen Shao (as Jing Tian)
Wesley Wong	=>	Cadet Jinhai

Random Trivia For This Title:

In a interview with Collider in November 2014, Guillermo del Toro talked about setting the stage for Pacific Rim 2 (2018), stating, "It's a few years after the first one. It's not an immediate follow-up. It is the world having been freed of Kaiju, what happens to the world after -- what happens to the Jaeger technology once the Kaiju are not a threat. It's quite a jump." del Toro did not return to direct Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018). He stepped down as director in order to direct The Shape of Water (2017) instead, which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Despite being the hero of this film's predecessor, Raleigh Becket is only mentioned once in this movie, and his fate remains unknown.
The kaiju's long-running plan to get to Mt. Fuji is a nod towards the many decades of kaiju-movies that involved monsters attacking Japan again and again, seemingly for no reason.
When Newton activates the drone subroutine, the screen displays the name of the protocol as CMD LIMA VICTOR 426, as a nod to the movie Aliens, where most of the action takes place on a moon called LV-426.
James Gunn filmed a cameo as a DJ, but it ended up being deleted from the finished movie. Gunn joked on Twitter that the scene was omitted so that his character could be saved for his own spin-off movie.