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Then again, Asylum movies are known for their rushed productions. According to the studios Wikipedia page, an average movie takes them about four months from beginning to end, with the crew rattling through about a dozen pages of script per day during filming. As a result, everything aboutAtlantic Rimhas a rather quaint, handmade feel, like Michael Bay attempting to make one of his blockbusters with a local amateur dramatics troupe.
Some scenes are pure comedy gold. At one point, one of our heroes is stuck in a locked room. His compatriots are outside, panicking about how impregnable the door is and how they cant possibly get their friend out without a key. Hilariously, the door is clearly made of thin wood, and wobbles whenever an actor touches it. Its later revealed that the door can be unlocked by hitting it a few times with a hammer.
Greene plays Admiral Hadley, a military man whose job primarily involves staring at graphs on a flat panel screen and huffing grumpily. I think its fair to say that Hadley isnt Greenes finest dramatic creation; at times, it genuinely seems as though hes being paid by the hour, as he murmurs through his lines in a hurried monotone, like a dispirited horse race commentator.
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The pilots of these metal behemoths are Red (former Baywatch chap David Chokachi), Jim (former Naughty by Nature rapper Treach) and Tracy (former model Jackie Moore). Red is the maverick type, who has a tendency to get drunk and pick fights with people standing around and chatting on their phones in the street. Jims the kind, sensitive member of the team, who saves children from burning buildings and does voluntary work for the Red Cross when he isnt thundering about in his giant robot. Tracy, is tough, brave, and is for some reason torn between her affection for the virtuous, kind-hearted Jim and the faintly sociopathic Red.
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The Asylums powers of divination are such that we can only assume the studio has a necromancer locked in a basement somewhere in California, whose sole task is to stare into a scrying mirror and predict what Hollywoods going to make next.
Atlantic Rimis out on DVD now.Pacific Rimopens in UK cinemas on the 12th July.
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Having seen both, we can safely say that comparingAtlantic RimtoPacific Rimis like comparing an F-15 Strike Eagle to a hang glider -Pacific Rimis simply superior in every respect. But whileAtlantic Rimmay be woefully cheap, its also exceedingly cheerful. Our suggestion? Get hold of a copy, and watch it just before you head to the cinema to watchPacific Rimfor the perfect modern kaiju double-bill.
Everyone involved in the production rolls their sleeves up and plays more than one role, so youll see the director don a helmet and make a cameo appearance as a fighter pilot, while the chap who does the motion capture for the robots also appears as a paramedic in one scene. The actings earnest, the scripts hilarious (That mans a wild card. Im gonna have his head for a trophy on my wall), the special effects are a bit Discovery Channel circa 1998, and the endings pilfered fromThe Avengers.
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This would explain how the studios managed to makeAtlantic Rim- a film that not only has a similar title toPacific Rim,but also a remarkably similar plot. Gigantic reptilian monsters are bubbling up from the floor of the Atlantic, and menacing the worlds oil rigs and major cities. Fortunately, NASAs Dr Margaret Adams has been secretly building equally large robots, which are sent into the fray to defend civilisation.
American film studio The Asylum has a spooky knack of releasing its own similarly-named film just before a major blockbuster.Transmorphersappeared just beforeTransformersin 2007.I Am Omegaappeared at around the time ofI Am Legend.Other offerings from the studio includeSunday School Musical, Princess Of Mars(which anticipatedJohn Carter,and probably made more money, dollar for dollar),Almighty Thor, Clash Of The Empires, Rise Of The ZombiesandAlien Origin.
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History is full of uncanny coincidences. Mark Twain was born on the day Halleys Comet swung by Earth in 1835, and died when it hurtled around again in 1910. The writer Morgan Robertson wrote a book about the sinking of a huge ocean-going liner 14 years before the Titanic collided with an iceberg in 1912. And by an uncanny twist of fate, last month saw the release ofAtlantic Rim,which appears to have anticipated Guillermo del Toros giant-robots-versus-giant-monsters flickPacific Rimby several weeks.
The rather rudimentary robot models could be put down to the fact that theyre earlier versions of the better-looking, more powerful mecha inPacific Rim.The monsters might look a bit scrawny and weird (they even have googly eyes, bless them), but thats just because theyre younger, less evolved versions of the ones that appear in del Toros movie.
While its easy to poke fun at the rough edges, it has to be said thatAtlantic Rimhas its own quirky charm. Everyone involved appears to be having a thoroughly good time – well, apart from Graham Greene, who looks like he just wants to go home and read the paper – and William Shannon Williams is good value as the villainous Captain Dager, who wears an eye patch, looks angry enough to explode and spends the entire time ranting about nuclear missiles.
Either through coincidence or those uncanny necromantic powers we theorised about earlier,Atlantic Rimactually makes for a perfectly enjoyable primer for Guillermo del TorosPacific Rim.With del Toros film picking up years after his giant Kaiju monsters have already invaded,Atlantic Rimcould even be regarded as its unofficial prequel, made by squirrels out of plastic cups and bits of string.
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Films from The Asylum are rarely noted for their starry casts, yetAtlantic Rimfeatures no less a talent than Graham Greene. Oscar-nominated for his performance as Kicking Bird inDances With Wolves,Greene has starred inDie Hard With A Vengeance, The Green Mile,and dozens of television shows, including this years SyFy series,Defiance.
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