Today I witnessed the movie that they call Transformers the Second: Revenge of The Fallen. One word that pretty much sums up what is the main point of producing this movie: explosions. This movie is just a Michael Bay vehicle to put as many explosions as he can into one feature viewing.
Transformers 2 follows the first in following Sam (Shia LeBeouf), a "normal" kid who just happens to have a bunch of large robots wanting him to partake in their actions. The robots, for someone who has never seen or heard of the Transformers franchise, are separated into two different camps: the Autobots (good robots) and the Decepticons (the bad). As the All-Spark was destroyed at the end of the first movie ( this is the main component that will give life to any mechanical being and is a source of great energy), but slivers still remain, and when Sam find one stuck to his shirt, all hell breaks loose. After he touches it, his mind is possessed with strange symbols and he dips in and out of trances which involve him writing down sequences of these symbols. He later finds out that this is an ancient robot language which is a map, and will lead him to the Matrix-a very powerful life force that was left by an ancient race of robots that had visited Earth many years ago- which can save one of his friends ( will not ruin this part of the film for you!).
Megan Fox also is in this movie, and she is very easy on the eye, but she does suffer from some bad acting at various times. Also, one thing that gets me is that at the end of the first movie, the two sets of robots were battling it out in the middle of the city, but in the follow-up, no-one still doesn't seem to know anything about them. This makes no sense! It is as if everyone is ignoring all the blatant goings on that is happening right under their noses and this breaks the immersion and believability factor for me.
A transformer, to me, is hard to comprehend on its own, so when two or more were fighting, I could not for the life of me figure out who was who and to be honest, the motion blur made me feel sick at times. As most of the robots look quite similar, or are not mentioned much, you cannot root for them in large battles where there are lots of robots, as you do not know which ones are good and which ones are bad.
Explosions are rife in this movie, as I have stated, and some pretty poor and clumsy acting is apparent with some of the humans. Bay tries to inject humour by using some funny voice acting for some of the robots, but this tone does not fit the rest of the film.
I thought the plot was rather stupid, and I did not enjoy this film, at all really.
I would give this film a 2/10 because I left the cinema not knowing any more about the Transformers themselves. Not enjoyable, and a 5 year-old could have written a more cohesive and engaging plot.
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