kensai-5 It is a rare thing that I would give only a single star in an IMDb review. Unlike most people who are writing these reviews, I have an awareness of how bad movies can get. You haven't seen the "worst movie of all time" (a shallow phrase I despise), if you haven't watched many dozens of extremely low budget productions. That said, although "Atlantic Rim" is far from being one of the worst movies of all time, I still cannot undo a feeling of embarrassment for my responsibility of ever so slightly increasing its rating, which is 1.7, at the moment. A more appropriate score might be a 2.5, though.The writers, director and actors would have good reason to be ashamed of their involvement with this production. It's hard to know how much of the script was changed during production, on the whim of the producers or director. The dialog is sometimes of prepubescent quality, the events and action almost always are. Whenever the dialog was less irritating any positive effects were quickly undone by the incompetence of the director and editor(s).My suspicion is that the director, Jared Cohn, is incapable of work any better than this. I have seen examples of his writing, acting and directing now, and they have all been in the cringe category of awful. I would advise people who're going to work with him to use utmost care. If anything good is to be taken from his example, it's that you can get a job in any field, regardless of your absence of skill or talent.Watch this movie if you prefer your heroes extremely dimwitted, with the dialog to show for it. Also watch this if you prefer soldiers to do whatever they please and whenever they feel like, regardless of the commands given to them. The soldiers in this movie behave a lot like party-addicted, bullying teenagers, who are treating their commanders like spoiled, aggressive pupils might treat their teachers if they have absolutely no respect for their authority. According to the movie that behavior is absolutely fine, commanders will laud you for it and express their pride, as long as you're the best at your job.The action, dialog and special effects are never interesting or engaging, but rather cringe inducing and confusing. Let me give you one example of "bad special effects" caused by utter lack of competence, rather than lack of money. In one scene we see the biggest monster stand up while leaving the ocean next to a beach. At least that was the idea. What we actually see is the ocean and the horizon meeting up in the very very far distance, which is also the place where the ankles of the monster rise up from the ocean. Yes, the person who made the special effects for this scene placed the ankles of the monster at the farthest end of the visible ocean. If you correlate the distance of its ankles with its size on screen, the monster would have been at least several miles high. In later scenes we're shown that it's actually rather around 50-100 m (or ~150-300 feet) high, while walking through streets. Money was not a factor here. This dire mismatch of size relation is the result of giving the special effects job to a person not remotely skillful enough for the profession.The scenario described in the previous paragraph is exemplary for just about any part of the production of this movie. The people involved were fully incapable of predicting what the movie would look or feel like when finished. It also seems like they stay unaware of their mistakes and thus never learn from them.

Azhar Mohammad First off it's an extremely cheap very very low budget rip-off of the original movie. The robots are so pathetic and thin they look as if carved from cheap aluminum; not heavy metal like Pacific rim. The actors are very handsome and beautiful and all but they are amateur at best. Their acting really sucks. The dialogues suck. No professionalism. If CinemaSins (YouTube Channel) was to review this pathetic movie, his movie meter would overload and explode. It's the most pathetic, shitty and rotten movie I have ever seen. Guys and girls and fellow human beings do yourselves a favor and don't watch it. I repeat DO NOT watch it.

Granger The first hint one should get is that the original title of this movie was "Atlantic Rim"-- apparently trying to grab the few viewers that might mistake it for "Pacific Rim". That they have now changed the title could be only for one of two reasons: 1) Legal troubles with the Pacific Rim people or 2) Atlantic Rim got such a bad reputation they're trying to re-release it under a different name.This is one of the few movies that I would give 3 stars on special effects alone (not great, but interesting)... except that I don't really want to raise the current 1.7 rating. So I chose to not rate it at all, because even a 2 would up the scale a little. The script, acting, logic flaws, senseless storyline... it all adds up to a "rainy Saturday afternoon when the internet is out" movie.But then, anyone who watches a giant robots vs sea monsters movie made by Asylum and expects anything but goofy really is not acquainted with this company. I gave this one a chance thinking "Hey, even Asylum can't totally ruin a giant robots vs sea monsters movie." And I was right. They didn't totally ruin it; they just mostly ruined it. It did contain giant robots and sea monsters after all.Seriously though, recognize there is a reason for that (current) 1.7 rating, and spend time on a hobby or with the family. There, I just saved you a couple of hours out of your life that may have been spent in Asylum drivel. If you're still tempted to watch this, just remember: TRUST THE 1.7... TRUST THE 1.7...

Ole Sandbaek Joergensen Well I guess that Asylum is by now notorious for taking a coming blockbuster and quickly making a cheap version with similar name, if it is to fool the audience and hoping to make some money in people watching these by mistake, or if it deliberately making these b-movie adaption and hoping them to become cult or just making a fan base for them, I don't know, maybe it is a bit of both.I had to see it, just to see what they had done, I liked Pacific Rim and didn't think this would do anything better, I was right... ...this is one of the worst ones I have seen, the big monsters, the Kaiju is particularly bad and the inside of the robots looks like something from the eighties or nineties.There are some fun elements not in a comedy kind of way but in a sad and bad kind of way, mostly it is bad effects, bad acting, very cliché and just not working at all.