Critically speaking, Tomb Raider and Pacific Rim Uprising both earned mixed reception overall, and while Tomb Raider managed to perform decently at the box office, earning over $273 million worldwide off a $90 million budget, Pacific Rim Uprising’s box office haul wasn’t quite as admirable, only taking in $290 million worldwide, more than $100 million less than its predecessor.
Pacific Rim Uprising should have been grounded more in reality and Tomb Raider should have had more fantastical elements and “fun.”
It’s not like either of these movies were theatrical disasters by any means, but rather than going down in film history as classics, Tomb Raider and Pacific Rim Uprising will primarily be found either as Redbox rentals or on the FX channel on a Sunday afternoon.
As this Honest Trailer posits, both movies might have benefitted from having a little more of what the other movie had in excess, i.e.