2013 · action · sci-fi · monster
Atlantic Rim
Directed by Jared Cohn1h 25m2013
When monsters suddenly appear from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, a special team pilots giant robots to combat the new threat.
Our read: Atlantic Rim (2013) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · monster entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- kinetic
- inventive
- cold
- epic-stakes
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