God, this was fun. Beautifully-designed, larger-than-life characters, and dialogue ripped straight from B-movies (cancelling the apocalypse is the tip of the iceberg). It’s incredibly stupid, but I loved this.

That said, Guillermo del Toro’s doing some interesting stuff here. It’s brave to have a central male-female action relationship end in cementing a friendship, rather than shoehorning in a romance, and things like family and respect seem more front-and-centre here. Some things, you don’t realise how rare they are until they crop up in blockbuster nonsense.

The names were fantastic. Stacker Pentecost? Raleigh Beckett? And Doctors Newton and Gottlieb? There’s a madcap flair that runs throughout this - it has heart, but it never takes itself too seriously.

It’s very well-acted (for what it is) - Idris Elba is really solid, as is Charlie Hunham, but the scenery-chewing triumvirate of Ron Perlman, Charlie Day and Burn Gorman feel more in line with the neon skylines than any of the protagonists.

Every scene in Hong Kong was fantastic.

Also, this film seems to have learned from Transformers that simply having big robots isn’t enough. There are some pretty impressive tricks up this film’s sleeves.

Watch this. It won’t get you thinking, but it’s surprisingly refreshing, and doesn’t feel anything like its length.