Continuity mistake: When Jake is serving the cream he uses his left hand, then right, then left again between shots.
Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)
Plot summary
Directed by: Steven S. DeKnight
Starring: Scott Eastwood, John Boyega, Adria Arjona, Tian Jing
It's 10 years after the events of the first film. Peace from the Kaiju attacks still prevails after the breach was closed. The story starts off with the son of Stacker Pentecost from the first movie as Jake, attempting to salvage parts from Jaeger junk yards to sell on the black market. The part he's attempting to get while betraying the team he's with is stolen by Amara, a young girl building her own miniature Jaeger. Jake tracks her down but before much else happens he's tracked there by the police and they both have to make a get away in her newly powered up "Scrapper" Jaeger.
Ultimately they are apprehended, and are given the ultimatum to join the Jaeger program or got to prison. Jake is made an instructor for the new recruits.
While on assignment, Jake and his reluctant co-pilot of Gypsy Avenger encounter a rogue Jaeger and are unable to defeat it. However they track it to an island where they engage it again to discover that it's being powered not by human pilots, but a Kaiju brain.
This leads to the discovery of corruption in the company creating Jaeger drones where it's revealed that Dr. Newton from the previous film has been brain washed by the Kaiju after drifting with the brain of one in the last film. And he's seeded a plan deep in getting the Drones to reopen the breach, allowing the Kaiju back onto Earth. They immediately make a B-line to Mount Fuji in Japan to cause a chain reaction to detonate the Ring of Fire. Racing against the clock, Jake leads the new recruits in supped up Jaegers to Japan to face off against these monsters to save the world.
More mistakes in Pacific Rim Uprising
Jake Pentecost: Fire everything you've got.
Question: If Kaiju can be killed by dropping something heavy on them from orbit, why spend all that time and effort on Jaegers when a satellite defence system armed with tungsten smart rods would have done the job?
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Answer: Each new Kaiju is adapted differently, often based upon what has killed previous Kaiju. This is why the Jaegers have such varied designs. If they relied upon a satellite firings rods from space, there would be no defence when a new generation of Kaiju arrived, adapted to this tactic. Additionally, producing a sufficient number of satellites to cover the entire planet would be a huge task, whereas the Jaeger technology already exists.