Sunday, June 28, 2009

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen


The worst blockbuster of the decade -- bar none!!

* * * WARNING: mild spoilers ahead * * *


All I can say is that Michael Bay’s (Bad Boys, Armageddon) latest Transformers film is so terrible that at one point I walked out of this near 3 hour feature in need of a smoke break. I couldn’t take it anymore after the main characters were somehow teleported (WTF??) from some sort of an airfield in the US, into a desert in Egypt…

While the CGI is quite impressive, the action sequences themselves are garbage, and a repeat of Michael Bay’s previous films, which obviously takes out the "originality factor". The plot is just utter shit, and the acting on behalf of pretty much everyone, is just appalling, even for a summer blockbuster action film.

What makes it worse is Michael Bay. I truly believe that this 44-year-old man has the brain capacity and the IQ of a 13-year-old boy. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is filled with immature jokes that only 13-year-old boys would appreciate -- a Chihuahua humping a Pug (twice in less than 5 minutes), a robot humping Megan Fox’ leg, two wannabe gangsta robots, an aging transformer with a crutch and a (steel) beard, and lastly the huge robotic nut sack!? Instead of a PG-13 rating, this movie should be advertised as not suitable for anyone above the age of 13.

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said, “Pornography is hard to define, but I know it when I see it”. After spending $7.50 on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I think I have now seen pornography in it’s most vivid form.

* (one out of five) -- an appalling film. Nowhere near as thrilling, exciting, and cool, as the first one. I actually liked the first film, and though corny at times, found it quite entertaining. This one -- not so much!


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