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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
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Storyline
Sam Witwicky again joins with the Autobots against their sworn enemies, the Decepticons.
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The Director
Michael BayMichael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for directing high-budget action films characterized by fast edits, polished visuals and substantial use of practical effects. His films, which include The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and the Bad Boys and Transformers series, have grossed over three billion dollars world-wide. He is co-founder of commercial production house The Institute , a.k.a. The Institute for the Development of Enhanced Perceptual Awareness.He is co-chair and part-owner of the special effects house Digital Domain. He co-owns Platinum Dunes, a production house which has remade horror movies including Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: A Review
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Unbearably long, barely acted and filled with more sweeping camera shots than any other Michael Bay-directed movie before it, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is a terrible, lumbering behemoth of a film. When it's not an explosions-filled action movie, it's an awful teen comedy, teetering on the brink of being farcical.
Beginning with overlong backstory that nobody really understands or cares about, it's a while before we're reunited with the film's protagonist, Sam Witwicky (Shia Labeouf), as he prepares to set off for a normal life at college, fully intending to leave his transforming car, Bumblebee, behind. Unfortunately, along with Sam we're also reunited with his parents, Ron (Kevin Dunn) and Judy (Julie White) who resemble a Laurel & Hardy-esque slapstick double act throughout the entire film. Laughs are played for witlessly in every scene they're in, which is far too many, including humping dogs (Twice! And in stupidly quick succession!) and the accidental ingestion of drugs. The enormous length of the film could have been trimmed drastically by leaving the majority of this stuff on the cutting room floor.
Following these two clods is the reintroduction of Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox), conveniently sat astride a motorcycle. "Hey guys, remember in Transformers when she was leaning over that car? Well this time, she's sitting on a bike. And she's wearing denim shorts!" If Shia's performance here is one-note then Megan Fox doesn't even manage that. With a permanent pout throughout the entire two hour thirty minute run-time, she might be the film's chief irritant, an award that could very well have gone to just about anyone or anything featured here.
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reviewed by giraffeversusunicorn (Filmaster.com) on the 5th of July 2009
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When I watch action movies on computer, sometimes I skip the bullshit and just watch action sequences. With T2 I didn't even need to do that.