The best stuff in Pacific Rim had nothing to do with missiles and monsters but the
underground economy, the black market trading in kaiju parts, the mad scientists trying to figure out how to stop the
world's end, the idea that our species was on the brink
of extinction thanks to an external threat that showed no signs
of slowing down any time soon.
His spectacular frenzies
of color and form become visual analogues
of the very urban landscape from which he scavenged his materials — poetic visual kaleidoscopes
of the communities and
underground economies to which Bradford's inherently referential source material gestures, and the volatile emotional admixture
of desires, concerns and vitality that make up the complex socio - economic layers
of Bradford's
worlds.»