It's serious corega tabs biverkningar “Could be worse” isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of “Pacific Rim,” but my head is still ringing, and hurting, from long stretches of this aliens vs. robots extravaganza that are no better than the worst brain-pounders of the genre. The director and co-writer, with Travis Beacham, was Guillermo del Toro, not Michael Bay. Unlike Mr. Bay, the untrammeled technologist of the “Transformers” franchise, Mr. del Toro is an imagist, a fantasist and, at his best, a cinema poet of highly charged horror. He gets to do some impressive stuff in “Pacific Rim,” in 3-D IMAX, but it’s a megabudget enterprise that wants desperately to compete in the Michael Bay mode. All too often in that respect the film succeeds, i.e. fails. What’s more, the good stuff succeeds elegantly and the bad stuff falls dismally flat for reasons that are painfully obviousГўВЂВ”painfully because the budget, and the commercial ambitions attached to it, have prevented the filmmaker from working comfortably in his own mode.
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