barely outlasting the kaiju every time.” “There is no doubt that people are exhausted at this point.” “In the Pacific Rim world, humankind has managed to thwart the attacks by the Precursors.

But 14 years after Roland Emmerich’s forgettable “Godzilla” remake, Del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” constitutes a large-scale attempt to bring Japan’s beloved Kaiju movies — their monster ...