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GenreAction, Adventure & Sci-Fi
RatedPG-13
Runtime2 hr 11 mins
ReleasedJuly 12, 2013
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorGuillermo del Toro
StarringCharlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi
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Pacific Rim (2013)
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| Pacific Rim's Details | |
| Genre | Action, Adventure & Sci-Fi |
| Rated | PG-13 |
| Released | 07/01/2013 (Mexico City); 07/12/2013 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 2 hr 11 mins |
| Budget | $190M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Pacific Rim's Interests | |
| General | Jaegers, the Drift, the Shatterdome, neon Hong Kong rain, monsters the size of zip codes. |
| Music | Ramin Djawadi. The main theme is pure robot-punching guitar. |
| Movies | Godzilla (1954). The original big guy started all of this. |
| Television | Neon Genesis Evangelion. Giant robots, way more feelings. |
| Heroes | Stacker Pentecost. Calm voice, enormous coat, zero patience for quitters. |
| Pacific Rim's Crew | |
| Director | Guillermo del Toro |
| Writers | Travis Beacham, Guillermo del Toro, Travis Beacham (story) |
| Producers | Guillermo del Toro, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent |
| Cinematography | Guillermo Navarro |
| Music | Ramin Djawadi |
| Edited By | John Gilroy, Peter Amundson |
| Production | Legendary Pictures, Double Dare You |
| Distributed By | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Imagine two parking garages fighting inside a car wash at midnight. That’s a lot of Pacific Rim, because Guillermo del Toro spent a reported $190M on giant robots versus giant sea monsters and then staged most of the brawls at night, in the rain, where you can’t quite see them. Charlie Hunnam plays the lead like a sturdy pair of work boots: reliable, and not saying much. Then the fun kicks in. A robot swings a cargo ship like a baseball bat. Idris Elba gives a speech about canceling the apocalypse with the energy of a man who has never lost a staring contest. Rinko Kikuchi’s flashback, one little girl alone on a wrecked street, is the best scene in the movie. Charlie Day and Burn Gorman bicker like a sitcom that wandered onto the wrong set. It made $411 million worldwide. A 6.6 because the toys are amazing and the people steering them are cardboard. $3,671 says you go for a high five this week and act like it needs two pilots.
What works: Huge, heavy robot-versus-monster fights, Idris Elba’s commanding Pentecost, and Rinko Kikuchi’s haunting flashback.
What doesn’t: Charlie Hunnam’s lead is a blank, and the night-and-rain fights are often too murky to follow.
Who it’s for: Anyone who grew up smashing toys together and still wants to see it done at skyscraper scale.
Spoilers
Pentecost and Chuck Hansen sacrifice themselves with a nuclear bomb to clear the way, and Raleigh takes Gipsy Danger through the breach by riding along with a dead kaiju. He sends Mako to safety in an escape pod, overloads the reactor to seal the breach, and both pilots surface alive in the ocean.
Giant monsters called Kaiju keep climbing out of a crack in the Pacific floor, so humanity builds Jaegers: skyscraper-sized robots run by two pilots who share one mind through a link called the Drift. Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) was a star pilot until a brutal fight off Alaska made him walk away. Years later, Marshal Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) pulls him back to Hong Kong, sizes him up next to eager young officer Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi), and leaves two bickering scientists (Charlie Day, Burn Gorman) to figure out the monsters. Guillermo del Toro directs like a kid with the best toy box ever. One hundred thirty-two minutes, zero chill.
Anyone who can drift without chasing the rabbit. Bring a co-pilot.
| Charlie Hunnam | Raleigh Becket |
| Idris Elba | Marshal Stacker Pentecost |
| Rinko Kikuchi | Mako Mori |
| Charlie Day | Dr. Newton "Newt" Geiszler |
| Ron Perlman | Hannibal Chau |
| Robert Kazinsky | Chuck Hansen |
| Max Martini | Hercules "Herc" Hansen |
| Clifton Collins Jr. | Tendo Choi |
| Burn Gorman | Dr. Hermann Gottlieb |
| Diego Klattenhoff | Yancy Becket |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: IMDb users 6.9 / 10 (565,588 votes) → 6.9 / 10 (565,637 votes).
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +480 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $411M; Domestic box office $101.8M; Opening weekend $37.3M; Profit / loss (est.) -$79.5M; Rotten Tomatoes 72%; CinemaScore A−; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 72% (294 reviews); Metacritic 65 / 100; CinemaScore A−; IMDb users 6.9 / 10 (565,588 votes); movie.guru score 6.5.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 17 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.