I hated this movie. The dialogue was mostly for entertainment, the plot was held together by paperclips and chewing gum, and the cinematography was dizzying. Yes, dizzying. I actually found it necessary to close my eyes at one point because the spinning camera was giving me a headache.
Sure, Revenge of the Fallen had more robots than the first film, but it eventually felt like they were just being used to move the audience along without putting any real depth behind them. The majority of the transformers, especially the Auto-bots, didn't really seem like characters this time around. They were just... there.
Also, this has to have been the longest two and a half hour film ever. I thought it would never end, regardless of the fact that the events hopped from place to place without any sense of coherency. Not to mention the fact that the ending felt like one big "oh, I guess we'll finish things now" moment. Seriously, the ending was laid out exactly like this: have bad guy be defeated in all of 3 minutes, have Megatron promise us another movie, show a bunch of the humans with no dialogue, spin around Sam and Mikaela for the 1000th time, show Sam looking off into the distance on one of the jet carriers, have Optimus step into view and say something cool, end. Two and a half hours of fluff and everything is wrapped up nicely in under ten minutes.
The only good things I can really say about this film are that the CG still looked great, there was a little less teen drama, and Optimus Prime was still a main character. Other than that? Not a thing.
I am awarding Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen two stars out of five for being more interesting than the first film (which wasn't hard) but for still lacking depth and coherency. It really isn't hard to see that this film was made solely to make money and if, and probably when, another film comes out I will definitely have to think about seeing it in theaters. At least in its opening week. Poorly played yet again, Michael Bay.
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