6. Gipsy Danger vs. Kaiju - Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim may have been goofy and more style than substance, but
what style. The movie climaxes as the heroes realise that the only way to stop the Kaiju is to destroy the portal from which they emerge with a nuclear weapon. Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) and Chuck decide to sacrifice themselves when the chips are down, essentially clearing the portal's path for Gipsy Danger, as pilots Raleigh and Mako grab onto the Kaiju and use it to make their way through the portal. With oxygen low, Raleigh (Charlie Hunnam) ejects Mako (Rinko Kikuchi) in an escape pod before priming the nuclear reactor. He then ejects, and as the explosion closes the Kaiju portal, Raleigh narrowly avoids dying for the cause as well. For all of the film's flaws, Guillermo del Toro certainly immersed us in a world like no other, and this climactic standoff is the ultimate expression of this.