Good only in bits

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2009)

I recently watched Transformers 2 and to be honest, I was highly disappointed. The movie started off nicely enough but it appeared that the Director kept on pulling the movie as if saying not yet...not yet...
It was like each time you finally felt that the movie is rising steadily and would soon reach a crescendo, the tense situation was dampened by some silly comedy or some other sub-plot springing out of nowhere. I never felt seriously moved for the characters and never cared enough for what happened to them. People were dying...robots were dying...there was a lot of things happening but everything was too messed up to really create any sort of impact in an emotional manner. Therefore even though the movie was visually better than the previous installment and had more sinister villains and a seemingly better plot device it was never able to generate enough interest...it never reached the epic level.
The first part was way better just because once the movie picked up it kept on going higher and higher in terms of drama as well as action. You felt that you were being sucked into the situation. Over here, you never felt the same energy.
Shia Lebouf was good in the role of Sam Witwicky. I think he's a very good actor. Megan Fox was okay in whatever she had to do. But as i said it was not charming enough. The sidekicks were forgettable. The chief villain (Fallen) was not portrayed as well as was possible and Megatron looked a little insipid (almost child-like).
Go for it only if you have a taste for heavy metal action, high pitched sound and some cool special effects. If you are looking for a some cinematic excellence, it can avoided.