Because that’s what I want, too.
Briefly sketched characters and a minimalist plot can be a sign of a film’s low ambitions, but in this case, it’s more a mark of very specific ambitions: the filmmakers want to see giant robots fighting, and don’t want to spend too much time on boring human talky-talky that might get in the way.
Yes. Thank you. Giant robots. Punching giant monsters. In the face. That’s what I want out of Pacific Rim: Uprising. I can get movies that require me to think any time I want. I don’t want that from this movie.
It’s probably just a quirk of mine, but when the ham replacing Idris Elba talks in that goofy accent and speechifys about the things ‘WE’ did in the first movie all I think is ‘FK U you weren’t in the first movie and have no right to say WE’.