A step back from the first one

Rating: 5/10 (18 April 2010)

This movie was like seeing myself at the age of 6 playing in the sandbox with my transformer toys and my little sister who keeps trying to bug in with her Barbie's acting out childish romantic escapades. Nothing wrong with big explosions and robots beating the crap out of each other, I still get a kick out of that, but I'm twenty five now-a-days and I like to see a good story with interesting characters and a good script to boot it all up now too. This movie lacks that.
It's a shame too because the first movie was pretty good. Sure, I didn't like the fact that the original transformation sound was only used once and was absent from that point out in both movies, and also that you can't really see what kind of vehicle a transformer is after he is transformed with the millions of parts shifting in all directions during transformation. But overall it was a good movie in itself. The acting was fine, the build up was exciting and the storyline was good too.
Revenge of the Fallen on the other hand does the the complete opposite. The first part of the movie consist mostly of bad acting between people with an even worse script and the second half of the movie is action packed with metal flying everywhere. Nothing wrong with that last part, like I said before, but it's not really that versatile. In many occasions it was just a little to much. It really seemed it was more important to make the explosions even bigger just like the robots and put in more chaos than put time in a good storyline, better characters and a good script. But hey, it's Michael Bay so you shouldn't be that surprised. It's just that I hoped it would be as good as the first movie, and it was definitely not.