First Pacific Rim Reviews: Mostly Good, But Few As Passionate as Fanboys Expect

The first reviews are beginning to roll in for Warner Bros.’s Pacific Rim, and they’re just about what you would expect from the movie.That’s to say, it’s got a 78% at Rotten Tomatoes so far with mostly positive reviews–but the first handful of reviews that aren’t good use words like “loud,” “dumb” and “clunky.” And while a few of the early reviews are the kind of ecstatic enthusiasm fans have been expecting, both the positive reviews and the “negative” are mostly measured and middle-of-the-road, with a handful of positive standouts and one or two negative ones.Hey U Guys call it “A visually striking film but hollowed-hearted,” while Slant similarly says that “Guillermo del Toro doesn’t rise above the obligations of staging a film of this sort as a multi-level video game, a stylish but programmatic ride toward an inevitable final boss battle.”