How It Ended: After realising that the giant Kaiju are coming to Earth via a giant portal beneath the ocean, Raleigh Beckett and his parter Mako Mori are sent on a mission to drop a bomb into the portal and sever ties with the alien colonists who are attempting to wipe out humanity. The mission goes wrong, however, and the bomb is unable to be delivered: improvising, Beckett and Mori eventually opt to use their Jaeger (read as: giant robot) as a bomb, and successfully manage to blow up the portal and return to Earth just in time to be rescued. How It Should Have Ended: Like so much of Pacific Rim, the ending was just generic as hell and a bit too cliched. The heroes close the portal and save the day, and... that's it? You'd have thought that writer/director Guillermo del Toro might have thought of a more interesting way to tie up the events of Pacific Rim, even if it was just the a tiny moment that offered up the potentials of a sequel - you know: something along the lines of a tease. That's to say, why not end on a shot of another Kaiju being bred, or another portal being opened at the depths of the ocean? Just something a bit more juicy than: "Our two heroes stare lovingly at each other." Sure, sometimes it's okay to end on a blockbuster on a happy note, but given the vast world that Del Toro created for the movie, it would have been interesting to get the aliens' perspective on the events in the final moments. A scene where they plan revenge on Earth after we managed to thwart them would have added some needed narrative bite.
