Here's How Long Pacific Rim Uprising Will Be

After years of waiting, fans will finally be able to see Pacific Rim Uprising next year. Fans have been waiting for a sequel to the original Pacific Rim for some time, thanks to the first film's great visuals and robot-on-monster action, which no one will complain about. Those wondering about the film's length will be happy to know that it won't be too long, but it won't be abrupt either.

Steven S. DeKnight, the film's director and one of its co-writers, told Collider that the film would be around the two-hour mark and not much more than that. The original Pacific Rim directed by Guillermo del Toro was two hours and 12 minutes, so it's only a little bit shorter than the first film.

"It's resting right around two hours. I always shoot for two hours. If I was doing Lawrence of Arabia it would be a little longer, but otherwise I think the two-hour mark—this is just for me as somebody that loves movies and watches movies, two hours is always right around the sweet spot. If it's much less than two hours then I start to get a little suspicious, if it's much more longer sometimes a movie will support that but sometimes you just get a little worn out."

DeKnight's reasons are solid and fundamentally sound since movies that go on for too long overstay their welcome. It gets even worse when a film is bad and long, like Transformers: Age of Extinction. With Uprising only being two hours, it should be a breeze to watch and fun enough for rewatching, assuming that the pacing is good of course.

Pacific Rim Uprising hits theaters on March 23, 2018.

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