Director Steven S. DeKnight
Starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny
Rated M
Score 2/6

Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.

I wanted to be impressed with Uprising, but I wasn’t. Uprising had large robots and monsters and in some cases that would be enough and luckily this was a ‘true sequel’ and not a ‘faux sequel’ (which is a movie with the same title a number and a plot that has nothing to do with the previous movie). The biggest problem with this movie is that not enough of the main characters from the previous movie returned from the next chapter. I get why Charlie Hunnam didn’t return (scheduling conflicts) but however I feel that there still needed to be a reasonable onscreen reason as to why his character was not going to be featured in the sequel.
John Boyega was an excellent choice as the lead for this movie and he played well off Scott Eastwood and Cailee Spaeny. I also thought that the character Liwen Shao who was portrayed by Jing Tian was poorly written.
It really was a shame that there was no directorial continuity between the two movies of the franchise because it seemed that Steven S. DeKnight dropped the ball with this one, especially with the final act of the movie. I caught my mind wondering to other things during the climatic battle of the movie a couple of times. Ultimately what was delivered was a movie that’s ending had a similar vibe to Independence Day: Resurgence.