Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

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  Barneyonmovies

  3 / 10

  WHAT I LIKED: A sequel to the thoroughly below-average 'Transformers,' this second installment does nothing to improve over its predecessor, and is actually even worse as a result. Don't worry though, it is undoubtedly another movie that you can sit and drool at without engaging your brain, which can certainly be appealing if a) you're 5 years old, or b) you're after a dumb action movie to eat popcorn and think about other things to. That's totally fine, and there's certainly plenty here to allow all that as Michael Bay delivers yet more mindless action and huge spectacle-sequences backed up by a great score from Steve Jablonsky.
  WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE: Sadly though, copy and paste is really all this movie is, and in emulating all the flaws of its predecessor, it winds up even less inventive or exciting.
  As a result, there's again absolutely nothing to engage you here - the characters are vastly under-written and have less life than the robots that dominate the screen (which really is saying something), the story is an over-serious and terribly complicated maze of un-interesting sub-plots that noone really cares about, and the product placement of actual products is almost as startling as the placement of women, who may as well be 'products' in the eyes of the film itself. As a result, you'll end up truly disengaged, uninterested and slightly wincing as the film proceeds for the entirety of its hugely overlong run-time here.
  VERDICT: Another exceedingly dull and uninteresting film for me; 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' does nothing to shake things up after its predecessor. Come on Michael Bay, you can do better than this.

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