![]() So why did I walk away from Pacific Rim feeling disappointed? The former was quietly revolutionary in the way it reinvented a buddy-cop genre with two women, and I had high hopes that Pacific Rim would be just as progressive after all, director Guillermo del Toro has given us strong female protagonists before in films like Pan’s Labyrinth and Mimic, and the premise of Pacific Rim - two pilots (Charlie Hunnam and Oscar-nominated actress Rinko Kikuchi) each control one half of a monster-fighting giant robot - seemed to inherently promise the sort of gender equality you don’t always get from a giant action movie. ![]() Only nine wide-release films out this summer feature an actress in a starring role (instead of a less-important co-starring role), and only two of those - two! - have thus far been released: The Heat and Pacific Rim. ![]() There’s no denying that it’s been a brutal summer movie season for women.
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