Atlantic Rim (2013) Reviews

• The Asylum did it again... Can you say KA-CHING...?

  paul_haakonsen2013-07-21

  Another Asylum cash-in on a summer blockbuster. Like they did with "Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies" just in time before the release of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" or "I am Omega" as "I am Legend" came out, so again they do it with "Atlantic Rim" in the time of "Pacific Rim". It is just shameful, isn't it? But still, you know what you get with the productions and movies spewed out by The Asylum. Lower budget version of potential blockbusters, with failing dialogue and even worse CGI effects. However, I will say that in the more recent time, The Asylum has started to post more money into the CGI effects, and it is paying off. The effects in "Atlantic Rim" were actually quite alright. Though the movie was just suffering from being a cheap knock off of "Pacific Rim". The storyline in this movie requires no brain activity, just switch into auto-pilot and watch the movie as the three good guys in their mecha armor suits beat up some colossus aquatic monster that came from God knows where. As for the dialogue in the movie, well it was bad, really bad. I have never heard soldiers talk or communicate in the way that they did in this movie. And some of the things they say was just downright embarrassing to witness. And the acting in the movie was equally bad. Steven Marlow (playing Sheldon Geise) looked like he had a bad case of diarrhea, while Graham Greene (playing Admiral Hadley) was like a drone totally devoid of emotions at all. And David Chokachi (playing Red) looked like he was trying to do a reenactment of "American Ninja: The Musical" - if there was such a thing. This is not one of the better movies to make it out of The Asylum's drawing board, not even by a long shot. Everything here was rushed and seemed to be half-hearted. If you are going to copy something and cash in on something, at least do it properly. For a Sci-Fi movie, then "Atlantic Rim" was a really plain and below mediocre experience. Although I have seen a lot, and I do mean a lot, of questionable and low-budget movies, then "Atlantic Rim" is not the worst amongst those movie, but it is up there on the high ends of the scale.

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• Well... I watched it.

  rushknight2013-09-22

  How can I explain this film? It goes so far beyond words. I simply cannot use words to describe it. Words are simply not suitable, they are not powerful enough to explain the range of emotions one feels when watching this... artwork. While watching this film, I experienced uncontrollable laughter. It was wonderful at first, but then it tapered off and left me with a general nausea induced by a profound feeling of pity. I felt so sorry for the actors. The shame of being in this movie must surely weigh heavily upon them. Enough hyperbole. Let's get to the heart of it. The movie's production value was actually reasonable. But almost every minute of it was an assault on my brain. The acting was atrocious, the CGI was not horrible, but was far from convincing. Think Power Rangers. The soundtrack was utterly miserable, a straight run of "epic-ish-action-ish-wow-you" muzak that never seemed to fit the scenes, but instead served as the only consistent tie between them. The flow of the plot, the aspect of a movie that ties each scene together into a cohesive storyline, was just deplorable. The director leaps from scene to scene, the actors doing things that make no sense at all, only to end up at the bar drinking as much as possible (apparently this is what the writers feel good soldiers should do). I suppose it's reasonably difficult to outline a respectable plot when the story itself is so full of haphazard clichés. The soldiers don't act like soldiers, the monsters don't act like monsters, the civilians act like cannon fodder (of course. And they do such a good job of it). I can't say the movie was completely predictable because NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE. I felt like a 5 year old boy was leaping on his bed swinging around his Jedi light-saber telling me, "And then the robots had weapons! And then the monster threw a submarine! And then they drank too much!" And all when while I just want him to calm down and go to bed so that I can think straight and make sense of the world again. I feel my score is accurate, but despite that, this is a must watch. It will teach you so much about good movie making, using the time honored "See what they did? DON'T EVER DO THAT" method of teaching.

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• What tha heck was that???

  ignatzmax2015-03-17

  So so so so so so bad..... in EVERY way imaginable. Bad acting, continuity, effects, story.... all of it. The bot suddenly springs up out of water barely deep enough to come up to its knees... was it lying down first??? Why were there so many dead people in town? One fight on the beach and practically the whole town was destroyed. NO military man carries a gun gangsta style in his waistband behind his back... In the car, the driver with the eyepatch never put his eyes on the road... just kept looking at General/Admiral Hadley. Not sure which since the same officer called him General and then Admiral... And as far is i know, 3 stars in the Marines is Lt General and in the Navy its Vice Admiral, either way they should not be calling him General or Admiral. WHAT?!?! Busting a locked doorknob on a steel door with a wooden handled hammer?!?!? And there was no locking mechanism in the door, just a doorknob on a door. Colonel Geise... fer gods sake take a chill pill. Loosen ya undies man, they must be so wadded up. I've never seen a man so stressed and full of pent up anger... any more stress and ya eyepatch will melt. Oh and is Geiss a Captain or a Colonel? Just exactly WHICH branch of the military was running all this??? Army, Navy, Marines??? None of the insignia was correct for any of them. I was trying to work it out but got a headache and gave up. 3 Bots and only Red does the work??? wtf? Melee weapons magically appear... OMG ITS THE POWER RANGERS!!!!! Forget this movie. I've wasted some of my precious life watching it... time i'll never get back... WHY.... why did i do it....? *sob sob*

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• Hilariously Bad

  Smike932015-03-16

  This movie is utterly dreadful, although that is the precise point of these 'mockbusters'. My flatmate and I watch a s**t movie every other Sunday - we call it "S**t Movie Sunday." This one didn't disappoint. The highlights of this movie (i.e. the most 's**t' parts) are as follows: The moment when a 6-second clip of a jet flying across a sunset was re-used 5 times in a 10 minute action sequence. The 'Love Triangle' which lasts about 21 seconds. A homeless guy getting jumped in an alleyway by the main characters for no apparent reason. This movie is absolutely dreadful... please watch it at your own risk.

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• Steaming pile of poopie.

  Jtrujillo-736-5638172013-07-12

  Spoiler alert!! This movie sucks! Its horrible just like any cheap B rated knock off of a summer blockbuster would. I mean why bother with making up your own story lines when you can just copy the basic premises of a movie thats already coming out. Think of it like this. Some dude at scifi was sitting on his couch hitting the bong and saw the trailer for Pacific Rim. And said "huh huh dude, We should totally do that. " and the screenwriter was there with him and was like. "LOL yeah dude. Pass that bong." and the first dude was like "No man I mean a movie like that. We can even call it Atlantic Rim and then people will get confused and think its the cool one that they spent 100's of millions of dollars producing and marketing. And we can get paid!!" and the 2nd dude then said. "hellz yeah. We don't even have to bother with a screenplay. just copy that $4!t! OK now pass that bong bro." And then 3 weeks and 20 b-g rated actors and a bunch of low rate Chinese CGI and we have "ATLANTIC RIM(job)" Seriously. this movie is a wad. Horrible horrible acting. Everyone looked like they weren't quite sure where they should be standing or saying. Over the top illogical bravado from everyone. there's one scene where everyone in the town is magically dead except one father who is wandering back and forth in a 30' space looking for his daughter who he knows is in the building he is standing in front of but instead of going in and saving her just walks around calling to her looking lost and confused. the human element was missing from this movie. you couldn't connect to any characters, they had no depth beyond their bios that were likely written by a toddler. In the end the "good guys" kill the monstors and the hero gets the girl or the guy. I forget what way he wound up going. He and his sidekick had a special relationship they didn't really go into.....

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