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.”
