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China IS THE PROBLEM, there, I said it (MAJOR SPOILERS)


First movie, world collaboration to fight alien kaijus, second movie, f#@k all the experienced soldiers and world collaboration, give all the control to a few Chinese companies and a few english speaking teens.

A war that lasted decades (and molded the complete world behavior) in the first movie was forgotten and turned into a capitalist and corrupt system in less than 3 years (apparently, no more than 5), no more governments involved, no more older people involved, there were even protests to remove Jaegers from the planet.

The country that created the Kaiju genre was left out in the first movie, most likely due to lack of time, the second movie complete third act takes place in TOKYO (yes, Japan's capital) and not a single Japanese Jaeger was shown, they even showed a Gundam (statue) but not a single Jaeger to defend the country's capital, the Japanese people are only shown running scared, dying or hiding underground, it is almost as if this movie was made by someone that didn't want to show anything good in Japan, maybe an old hate?

They killed unceremoniously the only experienced Jaeger pilot from the first movie (Mako Mori), a certified world hero that should be in charge of the world's defense system, but at the very end a chinese company boss that was not mentioned to have any fighting skills now can control a junkyard prototype Jaeger, add in record time new features and appear out of nowhere and save the day (she literally saved the "heroes" of the movie) but never to be seen later when they are celebrating the victory like small children with snowballs.

Some of the technical errors that got me out of the experience:
- In the final fight, when they are entering the atmosphere, they do not have a protective shield or glass, thats how Amara got into the Gipsy, they would have burned to dead.
- If it was so easy to open new portals (the Kaiju/Precursor controlled Jaegers open new portals in a few minutes with their core power beams or something like that) why has not the Precursors not opened new portals back in over 10 years?
- In the first movies the neural bridge was something almost impossible to achieve, people died or went crazy attempting it, on this movie almost anyone is compatible or never tested.

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