Pacific Rim doesn't look great.
As for this, I dunno. Perhaps as a non-American I just won't get it, but it looks like the usual pro-America thing, even if that's not the intent. When you have two bad guys (and for a large part of the actual conflict, two equally unpopular guys) fighting, winning, or even how they got there, isn't especially captivating. Perhaps it's just too soon, events that not only happened in our lifetime, but actually within the last couple of years, are normally far more thrilling in life than on the big screen.