Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
By Jay | June 24th, 2009 | Categories: UncategorizedTags: mecha
I’ll have to say that I’ve been waiting for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I also have to say I’m a bit disappointed. But then what do you expect from sequels, right?
Story? Not much there. It’s not well thought out and things at times seemed pointless. Revenge of the Fallen, started off where the previous Transformers movie left off. Megatron and his robots have been destroyed but Decepticon incursions remain a part of daily life. Responsible for countering these attacks is a combined unit of Autobots, old and new, and up-armed Earth special forces.
Apparently, the Decepticons were trying to locate a fragment of the “allspark” to be used to revive Megatron. The good guys , on the other hand, had to revive Optimus Prime, who was conveniently killed by the revived Megatron, and stop the Decepticons from activating a star-destroying superweapon.
All these happened in an overly long, LOUD, action-packed sequence that tended to be confusingly fast and yet managed to be dragging at the same time.
The titular The Fallen was totally unnecessary and was onscreen only a few minutes. He didn’t even last long in the final fight considering so much time allocated to battle scenes.
Rating: 3/5
January 31st, 2010 at 10:45 pm
The fact that everybody went gaga over this sequel, even having to queue and wait, anticipating for best imax experience, made it more disappointing. There was so much going on in the overly big screen (especially if you are sitting at the center row or even closer to the screen), you will get confused as to where to look at.