Oh how far the Fallen has fallen

Rating: 2/10 (31 January 2010)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a movie that offers so much but delivers so little. It's the definition of a Friday night movie: lots of action and adventure, but a plot that can only be examined on a microscopic level.
There is just so much about this film that's all over the place, it's as if the script is relaxing through half the movie, wakes up for every five minutes and then falls right back asleep. To say the dialogue goes a mile a minute would imply that there's something that actually needs to be heard.
The cinematography isn't bad in some of the more foreign locations, but they do take a backseat to things like CGI. On that note, the visual effects remain just as impressive as its predecessor but because of the large number of characters in the film, they have more usage.
Unfortunately, the number of characters turns out to be another flaw for this film. There had to be, AT MINIMUM, 30 different robots with more than half of them having zero relevance to the plot and zip personality. The only significance they seem to provide is a certain craving in the audience to drive the latest sports car.
Shia Labeuf's performance Sam Witwiky has only lightly progressed compared to the first film and has little character development. Megan Fox's character Mikaela seems to suffer a similar fate, with very little to do but be pulled behind Sam like a trailer hitched on to pickup truck. Though they are tolerable compared to such stomach-twisting racial stereotypes as Mudflap & Skids.
If the Fallen wanted to take his revenge out on cinema, he has certainly left its image in ruins.