By virtue of the fact that both the Jaegers and the Kaiju are both massive creatures, the fight scenes, while not slow, were certainly more deliberate than you might have been used to in your traditional action movie. It would seem, based on what John Boyega tells IGN, that this will change in.pacific rim ; uprising Upgrades to the Jaegers will make them faster and, apparently more graceful as well, if the comparison to ballerinas is an apt one.

Technically, the aegers just mimic the movements of the people controlling them, but we're not sure how a ballerina would be able to handle all of the equipment strapped to them inside a Jaeger. It might be a bit complicated to pull off graceful moves.

I'm honestly not sure how I feel about this. While I'm looking forward to Pacific Rim: Uprising, one of the reasons is that the first movie was so different compared to more traditional action movies. The fight scenes looked and felt unique. Faster moving Jaeger's feels like we're just transitioning to a more traditional choreographed fight style and it seems like that's losing a lot of what made Pacific Rim special.