Warning: This review contains spoilers for "Pacific Rim Uprising." " Pacific Rim Uprising," which opens in U.S. theaters today (March 23), is a sequel that had many tools for succeeding.

The sequel to 2013's Pacific Rim finally hits theaters, and Pacific Rim Uprising goes all-in on giant-robot action at the expense of its human elements.

Although "Pacific Rim Uprising" topped the domestic box office this past weekend, the film's giant robots (also known as Jaegers or mechas) could use a lesson from real-life science, one robotics ...

We've seen Pacific Rim 's Jaegers in action and know that they can struggle to take on the kaiju of their own universe. They are drastically undersized compared to Godzilla when it comes to weight ...

Those giant robots, which are called Jaegers and steered by two pilots in psychic tandem, have mostly been laid to rest when “Uprising” opens, 10 years after the first movie’s cataclysmic ...

And “Uprising” largely follows in “Pacific Rim’s” footsteps, offering up more gargantuan battles between monsters and robots — sorry, Kaiju and Jaegers — that leave entire cities ...

It's another movie in which Jaegers (the giant robots in question) are piloted by humans to protect humanity from the Kaiju (the giant, Godzilla-like monsters in question), and that may be enough ...

Set 10 years after the events of “Pacific Rim,” “Uprising” finds Jake Pentecost (Boyega) eschewing his legacy as the son of hero Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) by scavenging Jaeger parts ...

On the evidence of the movies alone, Pacific Rim is a franchise curiously disinterested in its own potential. Yet, Pacific Rim has never been solely a movie series.

"Pacific Rim Uprising" (out now on 4K Ultra HD, 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital) is set ten years after the Jaegers defeated the Kaiju and saved the world.

Screening Science: “Pacific Rim Uprising” robots make for good action, but defy physics By Ethan Pak April 4, 2018 11:20 p.m.