Entertaining but terrible over-acting

Rating: 5/10 (14 September 2009)

I was never a fan of Shia LeBeouf...in the first movie, he was irritating. In this sequel, in my opinion better than the first, he is still the source of my lasting headache. I spent most of the film wishing he would just SHUT UP!! As if his deplorable and amateurish over-acting wasn't bad enough, they added a second contender, in the presence of Ramon Rodriguez, his room-mate. It's really is too much for words...the yammering, jabbering rubbish. LeBeouf screams his way wide-eyed, through nearly 2 and a half hours of film. I can forgive the bad campus, all-American images...I mean, this is Hollywood. We can even get over the fact that the US is deemed to be the arbiter of the entire world security (after Bush, there is little that would surprise me) but while we don't expect much in the way of intellectual stimulation, couldn't the crippling hysterics of the first film be addressed at least? Please, if there are any more sequels, kill LeBeouf's character or make him otherwise silent and PLEASE don't replace him with anymore screamingly BAD actors. John Torturro at least improved slightly from last time but still.... *sigh* I guess after these catastrophic decisions are made (cast, lines, etc.), the enormous budget they spend means that they don't DARE watch the final product for fear of seeing how bad their mistakes were.