6. Somebody Give This Man His Godd**n Shoe!
The only person cooler than Hannibal Chau is his tailor. Ron Perlman is awesome in Pacific Rim - in fact, he's awesome in everything he does. If he's in a movie, I'll watch it... which has taken me down some dark, painful roads, might I add. The fact that he's playing Hannibal Chau - and that a Hong Kong dealer in kaiju body parts named Hannibal Chau could be played by him - should add a lot of character and quirk to Pacific Rim, which it does... just not as much as you'd think. It all sounds great on paper. A whole black market has sprung up around the kaiju remains - and apparently they use the whole kaiju, if you know what I mean. But Hannibal Chau is never as funny or dangerous or even quirky as he should be. When Perlman gets swallowed up by a baby kaiju, I didn't really care. And I should care when one of the film's most memorable characters gets taken out the story - especially if he's played Ron Perlman. But del Toro and co-writer Travis Beacham rarely stick the landing when it comes funny, engaging characters. Hannibal Chau is the most glaring example of the script not being honed into something memorable.