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Movies that feel likePacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

If you loved Pacific Rim: Uprising, the closest films we have are Alienoid (2022), Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). All three share Pacific Rim: Uprising's kinetic and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Kong: Skull Island (2017).

πŸ… 41% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Steven S. DeKnightkineticdreamlikecerebralepic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Pacific Rim (2013)

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Alienoid
2022 Β· dir. Choi Dong-hoon
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· action Β· fantasy

Kinetic and dreamlike in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022 Β· dir. Daniel Scheinert
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7action Β· adventure Β· science fictionHulu

Cerebral where it counts, epic underneath

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

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Ant-Man and the Wasp
2018 Β· dir. Peyton Reed
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7action Β· adventure Β· science fictionDisney+

Both lean on momentum more than on action

Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into the quantum realm and try to accomplish, against time and any chance of success, a very dangerous rescue mission.

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The Matrix Resurrections
2021 Β· dir. Lana Wachowski
πŸ… 63%β˜… 5.6science fiction Β· action Β· adventureRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: artificial intelligence

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

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Superman Returns
2006 Β· dir. Bryan Singer
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.1science fiction Β· action Β· adventureMax

Common ground: saving the world

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Pacific Rim: Uprising for an angle of its own

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

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Kong: Skull Island
2017 Β· dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.7action Β· adventure Β· fantasy

The same two preoccupations: monster, and giant monster

Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

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The Dark Tower
2017 Β· dir. Nikolaj Arcel
πŸ… 16%β˜… 5.6fantasy Β· action Β· science fictionParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mind control

A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.

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65
2023 Β· dir. Scott Beck
πŸ… 35%β˜… 5.4action Β· adventure Β· science fictionPrime VideoHulu

Both are built on the same subject: monster

65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.

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Rampage
2018 Β· dir. Brad Peyton
πŸ… 51%β˜… 6.1action Β· adventure Β· science fictionMax

One thread runs through both: giant monster

Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

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Morbius
2022 Β· dir. Daniel Espinosa
πŸ… 15%β˜… 5.1action Β· science fiction Β· fantasyPrime VideoDisney+

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.

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Monster Hunter
2020 Β· dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
β˜… 5.2action Β· fantasy Β· adventureHulu

Epic adventure in both cases

US Ranger Captain Artemis and her team are part of a UN joint security mission north of Hemat, in Afghanistan. While searching for a missing team (Bravo), they are transported to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a mysterious hunter who may be their only hope to find a way home.

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The Great Wall
2016 Β· dir. Zhang Yimou
πŸ… 36%β˜… 5.9action Β· adventure Β· fantasyNetflix

Kinetic science fiction, and it commits to that

European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.

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