![]() Personality… intelligent, reserved, methodical, and resilient. She’ll have to convince him to let her fight as well as prove that she can handle the pressure of a real Kaiju attack. Although she clearly proves that she and Raleigh could be the perfect co-pilots for each other, Pentecost still has many reservations about her entering the battlefield. Mako’s life has been traumatic due to the death of her family, but this only fuels her desire to prove herself and to fight the Kaiju. However, when she helps Pentecost recruit the former star pilot, Raleigh Becket, the two seem to share an intensely personal connection that might just make them “drift compatible": the ability to share emotions, thoughts, and memories with another person in order to successfully control a Jaeger.Ĭhallenge… overcoming her fears and proving herself a capable pilot. She can barely make friendships or socialize with those she works with, and spends most of her time alone. In the midst of chaos during heightened Kaiju attacks, Mako hasn’t had a lot of time for relationships beyond the close and respectful relationship she has with Pentecost. With the guidance of Pentecost, Mako also trains to become a skilled Ranger, with record-setting scores on the Jaeger simulator. Mako’s job is to repair the old Jaeger, Gipsy Danger, which belonged to former co-pilots and brothers, Yancy and Raleigh Becket. She enrolled in the Jaeger Academy, a program designed to train pilots to combat the invading Kaiju, and quickly became a skilled technician specializing in mechanics and engineering. Profession… Jaeger mechanic, and aspiring Ranger. She and Pentecost live and work at the Pan Pacific Defense Corps inside the Shatterdome in Hong Kong. Mako lives with Pentecost who adopted her after the death of her parents. Just as the Kaiju was surely about to kill her, Stacker Pentecost saved her while piloting his Jaeger, a giant mecha robot designed to kill the Kaiju. When she was just a young girl, Mako became separated from her parents during a Kaiju (massive amphibious creature from another dimension) attack on Tokyo, and came face to face with the enormous Onibaba Kaiju. Mako grew up with her mother Sumako and father Masao Mori, who was a sword maker. From there it's one Kaiju confrontation after another, on land and sea, expertly filmed with 3-D pressed to its limits.Grew Up… in a village in Tanegashima, Japan. In the future women are on the combat front lines, so Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi, Babel) becomes Raleigh's co-pilot and emotional distraction. Raleigh leaves the Jaeger corps for a no-spoil reason but returns when ramrod commander Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) needs a pilot for a delicate mission to eliminate Kaijus once and for all. Even if we've seen these characters before in movies, from Armageddon to anime, the sense of romance, loyalty and loss Pacific Rim invites is impressive. ![]() Pacific Rim is a rare blockbuster that pays attention to people as well as their machines. Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) and his brother Yancy (Diego Klattenhoff) are top gun Jaeger meisters who, during a bravura 18-minute prologue, demonstrate how the robots operate and what they're going against. Family combos are best since they have a head start on bonding. The pilots operate in a mind meld ("The more you bond, the badder you fight") providing an atypical level of character development for a creature feature. Kaijus had the upper hand for years, until nations united to create Jaegers, robots so enormous that two internal pilots are required. Their battleground is the Pacific Ocean - Asian coast, in a nod to Toho Studios - where in the not-too-distant future an underwater fissure becomes a portal between dimensions. The bad guy Kaijus resemble Kraken's ugly cousins, sprouting bat wings, spitting acid and categorized like hurricanes, 1 to 5. The good guy Jaegers resemble Transformers, but unlike Michael Bay's soulless bombast, there's not one but two hearts beating within the metal shell. ![]()
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