Review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Rating: 4/10 (1 July 2009)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a popular mixture of absorbing adventure and clattering claptrap. Unfortunately, the latter dominates way too much.
It's machines on Viagra. I'm happy for the machines -- less so for the humans.
Director Micahel Bay is the master pimp for the machines. He brings them together in violent coitus never-interruptus.
I'm not outraged or offended by Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as are many of my peers; in fact, I enjoyed some of it.
But where Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen falters and fails is obvious. It turns action into cliché -- as stylistic and vibrant as the special effects are, they are made redundant and dulled by the ham-footed pedal-to-the-metal direction.
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