If you want to turn off your brain and watch a giant mech movie, this is definitely for you!

The first Pacific Rim movie is my favourite movie of all time. I didn't go into this movie wanting to compare it to the first, but just wanting it to have any of the heart and uniqueness from the original film. It had none of it. It is fun. The cast is fun. There are some choices that could be interesting, but don't feel like it. The pacing is typical and too busy. It's completely fine if you want another plain action film, but be aware that that is all that this is. Overall highly disappointed and upset. Definitely watch the first film if you never have before, but don't bother with this one. Maybe they'll be able to redeem it a little if they actually get to make the third one like they want to, but we'll see if that even happens.

Eastwood, who spends much of Uprising squinting like his dad, Clint, plays buttoned-up straight man to Boyega, a dynamic that's initially grating yet finds its legs in the monster-punching stuff later.

Brian Truitt

USA Today

Pacific Rim: Uprising may be not be much, but in the spirit of the film itself, let’s be realistic. It’s better than any of the “Transformers” movies, and shorter.

Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

My dad took me. He was a film critic and he’d already seen it for work, but then he took me opening weekend and fell asleep while I watched it. He did that a lot. But I think he liked it. I guess he wouldn’t have gone to see it again if he didn’t. What kind of idiot does that?

Bilge Ebiri

Village Voice