The perfect summer action movie!

Rating: 10/10 (26 June 2009)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has all the ingredients a perfect summer movie needs: action, humor, great casting, visual effects galore, thunderous sounds and impressive music (songs and score). This is what Michael Bay does best: loud and visual entertainment on screen. This is indeed the perfect summer action movie! 10 out of 10 ... without a doubt.
You may find plot holes in the script, you may find the acting of Megan Fox not equivalent to her sex appeal, you may even find some of the robots rather lame ... but hey: This is what you came to see! Why do you go to movies like this??? To experience a costume drama with tears and sobbing? Or maybe to escape reality for over two hours and have fun!!?? I go to the movies for different reasons and in this case I admit I simply love the Transformers movie franchise.
The effects are perfect, Jablonsky's score is powerful, the script is okay and funny (why do people bother to find plot holes here??) and all the actors do their job nicely. John Turturro is great, Shia as well, Megan ... okay, everyone serves their purpose. For that, Michael Bay deserves an honorary mention.
This film will absolutely not be one of the 10 films competing for Oscar's best films of the year. But still I rate it 10 because it delivers everything it "promised" :)
My rating system may confuse people but when I grade a movie, I use the system 1-10 and quite often I ask myself: hey, what if a great comedy is so funny that I'm laughing constantly... wouldn't it deserve 10 out of 10?? Yes, because it serves its purpose perfectly. Comparing maybe Atonement to Eurotrip would be hard but as a comedy I rated Eurotrip as a 9 or 10 ... but Atonement was 7 or 8. This may be confusing to some, but hopefully not all.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen deserves a 10.