Atlantic Rim (2013)

Perfect cast and a good story

Excellent adaptation.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The writer must have been high on ICE to write this sort of crap and the director must have been his suppliewr

First off it's an extremely cheap very very low budget rip-off of the original movie. The robots are so pathetic and thin they look as if carved from cheap aluminum; not heavy metal like Pacific rim. The actors are very handsome and beautiful and all but they are amateur at best. Their acting really sucks. The dialogues suck. No professionalism. If CinemaSins (YouTube Channel) was to review this pathetic movie, his movie meter would overload and explode. It's the most pathetic, shitty and rotten movie I have ever seen. Guys and girls and fellow human beings do yourselves a favor and don't watch it. I repeat DO NOT watch it.

Saw the title and thought I'd give this film a watch; however, I shouldn't have bothered as it was so terrible. I watched the full film to see how bad it would get, but words cannot describe how awful this film is in places.Plot starts off similar to Pacific Rim, but just becomes absurd within less than 10 minutes. The acting was awful and very wooden at times and the CGI was very budget (high school project level). Also this film is full of both factual errors and continuity errors, that shows the lack of research done by the writing team.Overall this film does not even deserve 1/2 star (it's that awful).

Not really spoilery, but vaguely mentions things that happen.So, the other reviews are right. The direction is bad. The acting is wooden. The dialog needed work. The lighting isn't subtle. Interior SCI Fi sets don't match exteriors. Settings and scenes and plot aren't logical. The music is meh. Makeup artists were possibly non- existent. New York City mostly looks like someplace in California (or maybe Florida). But you kind of expect that. I mean, it's a knock-off, low budget, Fi-Sci interpretation of somebody else's idea. What's amazing is picking out things that they did BETTER than Hollywood. Like the headsets the guys on the oil rig are wearing. Although for movie shooting, the lady's mic should have been lower, it was a smart way for them to get along without boom mic operators AND it's something real people would need to wear. The conference between the admiral and the others after the oil rig disappears? That could really happen, and if it did, it would happen with iPads on a desk instead of stupid holographic displays. (Although who buys magenta light bulbs for their office, you must tell me!) And by putting two women in their really-way-too-big submarine interior, they passed Bechdel in the first set of scenes, without really even trying. The cast looks like a group of real people rather than modeling school rejects, and the effects were MUCH better than I had any reason to expect. Don't expect too much, look for the craft, and mentally write teleport platforms just offscreen in about half the scenes, and you should have no trouble enjoying this.