Michael Bay's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is at the very least an interesting study in both how and how not to make an action movie.What's good? The special effects, of course, are amazing. There is much more action this time around, and a lot more jokes as well. The writers do a very good job this time around of balancing between robots and humans.
What's not so good? Well, first of all, the fight scenes between the robots are confusing. This is due to the fact that the robot mode of every single Decepticon looks the same. The Autobots are all different shapes and colors, but the Decepticons are all gray.
Also, while plenty of time is spent on robots, not nearly enough of it is on Autobots. There is an Autobot in a few scenes that gets no dialogue, even though he's a part of a major plot line at the end.
And too many of the jokes are juvenile. I don't need to see a robot with a gun where his penis should be, nor did Devastator need to have a scrotum. In addition, several times we see the robots being flatulent. I really could have done without that.
Overall, for as much as gets done right, stuff gets done wrong. Add to that an overly long run-time of two and a half hours, and you're left with simply a mediocre science fiction movie.
Grade: 7
(All films are graded on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being cinematic perfection and 1 being something a 13 year old could have done better with an iPhone.)
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