Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)
7/10
Ten years after the giant robot task force sealed the alien invaders' portal, the alien's threaten again. This time a new entrepreneurial scientist, jockeying for power, has created giant drone robots to fight any new giant monsters that may come from a new alien portal. But is everything as it seems?
There's still some cool special effects and action, but the film is missing the heart, the resonating emotional depth of characters, of the excellent original Pacific Rim (2013). The new young characters are not compelling, and suffer from woefully undeveloped emotional background stories. Instead the draw is the old tired rebel teen angst background. The two films have different screenwriters and directors.