Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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John Turturro, Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Ramon Rodriguez, Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson

The battle for Earth has ended but the battle for the universe has just begun. After returning to Cybertron, Starscream assumes command of the Decepticons, and has decided to return to Earth with forc...( read more  read more... )e. The Autobots believing that peace was possible finds out that Megatron's dead body has been stolen from the US Military by Skorpinox and revives him using his own spark. Now Megatron is back seeking revenge and with Starscream and more Decepticon reinforcements on the way, the Autobots with reinforcements of their own, may have more to deal with then meets the eye.

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  • Beefy
    October 25, 2009
    Beefy
    I know a lot of people hated this, but I'm not sure why - it seems to me to be a direct continuation of the first film that addressed the one thing people disliked the most from the first one - NEEDS MORE ROBOTS. Well, this had them, in spades.

    Yes, the human plot was stupid to...( read more) downright annoying, two of the robots were nearly/possibly racist, etc. etc. I guess that stuff didn't bother me that much because I expected it to be big and dumb.

    I tacked on an extra half star because GOLLY this flick looks fantastic in HD. The special effects teams got the shaft for the work they did on the first flick, and I hope the Oscar folks won't make the same mistake twice. Truly amazing, glorious to see in action. Plus, you can see how heavily caked on Megan Fox's make-up actually was (ugh).

    If they have to up the ante again for the third film, what could they possibly do? Unicron? My Blu-Ray player says YES PLEASE.
  • PvtCaboose91
    October 23, 2009
    PvtCaboose91
    "Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing."


    Bigger and more overblown in every aspect (except where it's needed), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen represents Michael Bay at his most unrestrained and confident. Bay and his trio of screenwriters (E

    ...( read more)hren Kruger, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman) have slathered this sequel with unrelenting excess, particularly dumb humour and an overwhelming amount of CGI. There's no coherent story here - just an arbitrary collection of explosions, robot battles and machismo posturing that's tagged with an awkward conclusion. The endless excitement is downright boring: there's no sense of anticipation, no tension, and no downtime...it's on all the time, like being stuck on a bus with a screaming baby. The movie, all 150 goddamn minutes of it, is just an audio-visual assault on all senses (including common) that mimics storytelling without understanding it. With the keen urge to bypass all traces of logic, reason, character development and depth, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an utter mess of an action opus.


    Now...the story? Yep, that's horrible as well. Sam Witwicky (LeBeouf) is departing for college, and the Autobots are busily hunting the remaining Decepticons. When Sam conveniently finds a shard of the Allspark in his jumper, his brain is flash-loaded with ancient symbols pertaining to the location of a deadly machine that will let the bad guys destroy our sun (for reasons too stupid to explain here). Megatron (Weaving) is hauled out of his deep sea tomb (where the government dumped him as part of their military strategy to set up the sequel) and revived before being placed in the service of the Fallen - i.e. "The First Decepticon": a being so important that nobody bothered mentioning him in the first film. The plot more or less just has Sam becoming all spastic as the symbols overwhelm his brain while the robots engage in fight sequences. Sam and his pals also meet Agent Simmons (Turturro), and they all travel to Egypt where the pyramids are...because that's what happens when you give $200 million to a bunch of idiots who failed geography, and allow them to make a blockbuster.


    The straightforward plot is padded out to an unholy two-and-a-half hours, which means the whole thing is packed with dreadful filler. For instance there's a subplot in which Sam and his girlfriend are too nervous to say "I love you" to each other...until, of course, the finale, because that's how it's done in Screenwriting 101. By the time the all-in rumble between the Autobots, Decepticons, Otherbots (?) and the US Army finally arrives, one will be too numbed and fatigued to actually give a damn about how it all ends.


    The blunders of the first film have been accentuated rather than expunged, while the very limited charms of the predecessor are gone, leaving nothing to recommend. For Revenge of the Fallen, Bay indulges in so much excess that he delivers the cinematic equivalent of snorting cocaine off a hooker's arse. The "money shots all the time" approach robs the action of weight and coherency.


    For reasons that escape this reviewer's mental perimeter, Bay and his writers place greater emphasis on comedy for this sequel. The dead space between the action is therefore reserved for rear nudity from Turturro, jive-talkin' Autobots (triggering uncomfortable memories of Jar Jar Binks), extended time with Sam's stridently unfunny parents, and a Decepticon spy with leg-humping tendencies. Does the concept of a robot humping a woman's leg seem funny to you at all? Bay seemed to think it was so hilarious that he also threw in two scenes of dogs humping each other as well. Transformer testicles also make an appearance, and there's an exceedingly long gag involving Sam's mother tripping out on pot brownies. And slutty chicks can transform into robots too, because the film patently refuses to make sense. If Bay had another ten million to spend, he probably would've tossed in a musical number as well.


    When the characters aren't engaging in embarrassingly witless dialogue or doling out tiresome exposition, they're running away from explosions in slow motion (although outrunning an explosion is physically impossible). Meanwhile the "action" is relentless in its monotony. Robots pound on robots, humans launch rockets and missiles at robots (though never in the history of the sci-fi genre has artillery ever actually harmed aliens), robots wipe out humans, etc. This stuff goes on and on - far beyond what's necessary for a brain-dead, CGI-laden motion picture. Worse still, there are over forty Transformers in this film (most are interchangeable cannon fodder). Unfortunately the Transformers are all similar in design, not to mention they're poorly defined and make absolutely no visual sense whatsoever (a car can transform into a robot a few storeys tall?!). Combined with the director's typical hyper editing and close-ups, it's impossible to tell who's who during the battles. Bay is unable to keep his camera still for a second to allow a viewer to actually watch the combat, instead opting for dizzying camera patterns. In the long run the action becomes a nauseating, incomprehensible blur of confusion. It's frustrating and burdensome, and one will struggle to figure out what's happening instead of relaxing and enjoying. Revenge of the Fallen is just sensory white noise that beats its audience into either submission or boredom. It's like watching paint dry while being whacked over the head with a frying pan!


    Naturally, Bay has less luck with the humans - his characters range from obnoxious to pointless. Every character is a bland cipher who either yells at the top of their lungs or runs away from explosions in slo-mo. Megan Fox's character is particularly superfluous - she serves no purpose in the story, and is there just because she's hot. The camera spends so much time ogling her torso that one will wonder if Bay allowed a 13-year-old boy to operate the camera. At the end of the day, the characters are all just stereotyped caricatures and there's no anchor among them - there are so many characters but no-one is in the centre to root for.


    The CGI work courtesy of ILM is strangely mixed. On the one hand the facial expressions of the Transformers have more range, but on the other hand the integration with the live-action footage is less smooth and more cartoonish. There's also no sense of physics or gravity to these creations - the giant robots are just tossed around without any weight or inertia.


    No Bay movie would be complete without the director's disturbing sense of reality. The women are all supermodel hot, and they love to spread their legs for geeks. Minorities are best used as comic relief, and conform to every stereotype imaginable. Oh, and a scene set in a foreign country must depict the country's clichés (just in case the under-titles don't make it clear which country we're in) - snails & mimes in France, and camels in Egypt. And of course, the American Armed Forces are fetishised - the final act more or less serves as an army recruitment commercial.


    Perhaps more than anything else, Revenge of the Fallen is about Michael Bay's love for Michael Bay. He accomplishes this in countless ways; most overtly by placing a large poster for Bad Boys II in Sam's dorm room, and more subtly (but not really subtle) through visual homages (including a shower of fiery objects destroying buildings in Paris which causes a tower to collapse that's taken directly from Armageddon, as well as the destruction of an aircraft carrier which is an obvious nod to Pearl Harbor).


    Fans of this woeful picture can only say a couple of things in the film's defence: it's entertaining and the special effects are amazing. But the latter is arguable, and the former is merely a subjective opinion. Every summer blockbuster has big special effects and action...Revenge of the Fallen is just a tired rehash of summer action movie conventions. Why bother?


    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen perfectly embodies every negative aspect of summer blockbusters. It's a big lumbering idiot of a movie that substitutes noise and movement for any type of emotional connection. Bay simply trudges through his hoary, heavily rehearsed motions of explosions upon explosions, and reduces the globetrotting plotting to a repetitive yawn. It's an unforgivably long, obnoxiously unrewarding and brutally tiring experience. Look, I understand the original Transformers was a colossal box office hit, and this sequel is doing just as well. I also understand there's a market for this sort of brain-dead blockbuster. The Transformers films may be popular, but so is junk food - and they both poison your insides and rot your brain.


    At one stage John Turturro asks of a Transformer in relation to the current crisis "Beginning. Middle. End. Facts. Details. Condense. Plot. Tell it." - I'd like to ask the screenwriters the same thing.


    Oh, and you know what? Michael Jackson saw this movie on opening night. Next day, he was dead. Coincidence?
  • jsd35
    October 21, 2009
    jsd35
    Is this film as bad as the press would have us believe?

    Well, It's not good, that's for sure.

    It's not as bad as other movies that have been inflicted on me recently, but that alas, doesn't mean that it's any great shakes. It's a bit of a mess - an over-long rambling music vide...( read more)o of noise and effects, strung together by a poorly developed storyline.

    There are moments I enjoyed in this - mostly around the character of Jetfire, (who, I like to think, was speaking his opinion about the film as a whole, rather than simpy addressing the characters). The, er, wrecking balls of the Devastator were something of a misfire, but they definitely make wry comment on the rest of the project. And, while I'm not sure the Twins are intentionally racist (no more so than portrayals of rednecks in other movies), they do play overtly to stereotypes and are frankly speaking a total waste of movie time.

    Once-in-a-while it leaves you thinking, 'This could be okay...' But nope. Not worth paying good money to see, and it should have been much better developed before set free onto the world.
  • johnd62
    October 19, 2009
    johnd62
    You know what, to a certain degree I don't really need to write a review for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". Everything you need to know comes from fans of the film. Amazing film as long as you don't think too hard about it or you know expect anything good but stuff blows ...( read more)up real good. Look I'm all for action films and guilty pleasures but "Revenge of the Fallen" is neither. To call it an example of hollywood at its laziest, dumbest and most soul-sucking would be an insult to everything else in hollywood. I'd like to believe its some evil $250 million budgeted experiment of seeing how far you could push its audience AND still be suckered in.
    Okay so to save you from this horrible fate, I'll debunk every .
    Action scenes: Let me warn you right now, in a 2 and a half hour flick there is about 25, count em' 25 MINUTES of action! So in between the action scene, you have terrible and uncomfortable jokes about everything between sex and drugs and if that is not enough then how about black face and women jokes that would make audiences in the 1950s cringe. (More on that latter.)
    Amazing effects: Look there's a difference between a lot of money and good visual effects. "District 9"= Good visual effects, "Revenge of the Fallen"= expensive effects that still look kind of corny by today's standards. Follow this example and you should be able to understand the difference.
    Megan Fox is mighty pretty: Well my friends I have a new found invention, one where you can enjoy looking at her ass minus the crap acting. Welcome to the wonderful world of internet porn.
    My final point
    Its about time somebody understood D.W Grittifh's message of tolerance: I'm not even going to bother with the sarcasm here. Who the f*ck looked at the script and thought two gold toothed, illiterate and I quote "Jive talking" robot brothers was a good idea... oh that's right we'd be suggesting someone read this script beforehand. Why would anyone have enough respect for the audience to make something worth the $12 during a f*cking recession! My mistake guys, I should have known better.
    To end this review off cause quite frankly I want to get on with my life. I understand that I may be a bit of harsh on people who actually like this film. However remember a year ago and how excited we were that hollywood was finally getting it with "The Dark Knight"? A blockbuster that pushed into the realm of pop culture art. We can still have that and by justifying "Revenge of the Fallen" were saying its okay for studios to walk over us. All I ask is that we all put a effort into proving them wrong again.
  • allan913
    September 12, 2009
    allan913
    It's bigger and better than the original. A spectacular, eye-popping, heart-pounding and visually dazzeling epic action masterpiece. It's an amasing sequel that stands as one of the greatest ever made in it's genre next to Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgement day and The Empire Strike...( read more)s Back. Director, Michael Bay strikes gold once again, crafting another astonishing triumph with some of the best speacial effects of today. The master of action has done it again. It's an incrediable, outstanding, extroadinary and breathtaking action-packed thrill-machine from the explosive begining to the incrediable finish. A smart, terifficly funny, exhilerating and mind-blowing adventure. It delivers more robots, more action, more laughs and more epic battles than ever before. This film screams out classic in so many ways. A fast, furious and full-throttle kintetic action flick loaded with pulse-pounding thrills and adreniline-pumping excitement around every corner. An absolute feast for the eyes and ears that will keep you entertainend right to the very end. A wickedly entertaining, explosive and truly unforgettable flim. It packs on hold on to your seat excitment. Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox are teriffic and so is the rest of the cast who are back for the ride like Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro who is funnier than ever.
  • xShayne
    November 7, 2009
    xShayne
    After a very long yet entertaining 2,5 hours... I must say that perhaps "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" suffocated on its own massiveness.

    Perhaps my mistake was to watch "Transformers" the night before this one, and expect a perfect continuation. Because...( read more) yes, there were a lot of expectations. That helps me to be critical about this piece - which isn't necessarily a good thing.

    This movie isn't bad at any rate. It is fun, enjoyable, full of action, and if you liked "Transformers", you will like this one as well.

    There is some awesome comedy in this sequel, just like there was in the previous movie, but at the same time they went too far with it from time to time, ruining the tempo of the scenes and making some characters into total clowns.

    There was also a lot missing, one being a cohesive skeleton for the whole movie: there was action, and action is usually good with films like these, but when it's giant robots fighting, it gets messy real fast and even more confusing it would othewise be. Add to that some serious lacking in the introduction of new characters, and we're totlaly at a loss of who is who and fighting on what side.

    There were simply too many moving parts, too much exploding and breaking on the screen. And if you watch that for 2,5 hours, it does get a little boring.

    The characters were okay, as before, although there was zero heat between Sam and his girlfriend. Their "romance" was a total waste of precious screen time. As mentioned above, there was very little or no character introduction, so perhaps watching "Transformers" right before this one would be a good idea after all.

    The main problem with character interaction was probably the fact that there was no real spirit in the acting altogether, and there were several characters that were pointless - like Sam's roomie Leo, who was there merely for some occasional comical relief. Another one of those were the Twins from Autobots.

    Autobots and Decepticons both got reinforcements for this one. In the end there were probably too many of them because after the promising beginning, all of them just got lost in the big mass of destruction and explosions. They became just as faceless as every other extra in the movie.

    The plot is decent, but it drowns in the sea of action too often. It also gets a little thin, spread so wide across the whole movie, and I'm sad to say this, but in the end it starts to feel a little stale. There were also little scenes every now and then, probably aiming to keep the timeline straight, but that just ate away from the already disastrous pace, tugging the actual scene into three different directions at once.

    There are also clichés all over the movie. Most of them come and go, but some are rather annoying. Especially Prime's speech at the end of the movie - didn't convince me too well last time, either.

    Altogether, if you like action and blowing things up, and don't mind robots, this is for you.
  • sparks235
    November 7, 2009
    sparks235
    It's one of the best sequels for an action film that I've seen in a long time! I'd watch it again!
  • nadiasarwat
    November 7, 2009
    nadiasarwat
    THAT'S WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.I JUST WANT TO WATCH IT.
  • miguelfc1996
    November 6, 2009
    miguelfc1996
    que pelicula tan chevre
  • avril4106
    November 6, 2009
    avril4106
    this movie wasnt that good
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