Akichi Daikashima said:
Raleigh Beckett(the protagonist) had a really weird style of fighting, or as Mako Mori put it: "Unpredictable to the point of recklessness":he employs so many different techniques from so many different forms of combat that it's impossible to predict his movements, which is how Gipsy Danger managed to take down 4 2nd wave Kaiju in the movie.
As for everything else, to put it simply, the movie was really close to going over budget(I assume that the fight for Hong Kong was supposed to be longer, with the other Jaegers having more screentime): Del Toro is notorious for doing so.
Also the Category system is in relation to size, but, in actual fact, the Kaiju are a metaphor for natural disasters, which is why they're categorized in the same manner(as in, Godzilla was a metaphor for the way the Japanese perceived the American nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Kaiju are metaphors for the recent natural disasters that happened in America and Japan).
Ah, I see...he's Bill Paxton in
Twister. Joking aside, I do remember that scene describing his fighting style, but I can't recall an instance where that was translated into an actual fight. As I recall: kill #1 he shot to death, kill #2 was dispatched by the sword no one told him he had (the jerks), #3 & #4 are blurry...but I remember one of them ate it by the sword again. So it seemed to have less to do with his fighting style and more than jabbing 'em with the pointy bits or shooty bits is the way to go.
While I can appreciate budget issues can present challenges, there are some major thematic elements that were omitted here. When your heroes are totally ineffective against the enemy forces, it erodes the ability to remain in suspense when *suddenly* through no apparent new understanding of the nature of the conflict, they start wiping the floor with them. I applaud the attempt to tie the Jaeger/Kaiju conflict to the real world, but you didn't *need* Ron Pearlman to make the movie work (which, I bet, would have freed up a lot of money). You *DO* need these thematic bridges to make the movie work, however.
To me the big issues were that the tone was confused and overly oppressive. We see 4 Jaeger get KO'd before we see a single Kaiju bite it (not counting the exposition or Marshal/Mako flashback...although now that I think about it, I'm not sure if the monster in the boat scene was killed by GD or if someone else took care of it) within the context of the main story. I get that the new Kaiju were supposed to be Destroyer Class. But without seeing non-Destroyer classes get stomped for balance all we, the audience, know is that if you're going to go up against a Kaiju in a Jaeger; you're probably going to get killed...yet we see these other pilots discussed in hushed and reverent tones where Beckett isn't taken seriously at all...but they all die in 30 seconds, whereas he starts one-shotting monsters. Yeah...that's not confusing at all.
Actually, the scene I thought was the most interesting was when the Aussies bailed from their disabled mech and shot the Kaiju with a flare gun. I would have loved to have seen them do more improvised fighting like that than wrestling moves.
