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Film Review: Transformers 2
By Fernando Mexia - Movies , featured , headline - 23/06/2009
Fernando Mexia, the pen.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a film unfit for over 10 years. That was the taste that left me the sequel to Michael Bay (Armageddon, 1998) after more than two hours of wasted special effects, exciting action to the point of dizziness and a storyline that can be in falling more dreams, as happened to the person who sat next to me (he woke up startled with every noise).
The $ 200 million budget for this project, the most expensive of the year, if my information is correct,, evaporated to convert into a product tape midway between a huge game of mighty robots and a B-movie payroll has Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox , two of the hottest young stars of the moment in Hollywood. Something else is paid, of course.
The story of this sequel back to the beginning of mankind, the evil Decepticons links with the past in an Egyptian archaeological reinvention as an artistic license to shape a shallow script that requires little mental demand of the viewer. The second part of Trasnformers is, as said Bay, "a movie for the summer," with all that goes with that statement sounds like a justification of father to a son who disappoints.
The film gives much prominence to robots, so much so that the performances of the actors are reduced to the moments in which the alien machines are not locked in a fight to the last drop of oil. There are action sequences that last so you can come to forget why they were hitting each other. Of course, apart from the excessive speed which made it very difficult to follow many of the shots, I imagine that in order to give realism robotic fighting in several natural scenes are pretty impressive technical quality.
Upon completion of viewing, in the midst of my perplexity and confusion over what had just seen, I came across a gang of children who had had the privilege of being the first of his college, surely, to see the film. They seemed ecstatic to open eyes wide and grinning from ear to ear. That was when he heard one of them convinced that: "It's the best movie ever" (which translates as: 'is the best movie of all time'). That's when I put aside my journalistic value judgments and thought that instead of crashing, Transformers 2 was to make many millions of dollars in box office.
A journalist colleague told me later that this film was intended for an audience of six years, I would give a little credit would rise to ten. After all this, nobody will miss him as a promotional gift to give a skateboard to the press.
One more thing. I admit that my fondness for John Turturro target me recently when criticizing, but the point of humor that gave the film was appreciated.
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Clarification: When I speak of age, in any case I have the intention of offending the fans of the series or the people you liked the film, just think the movie is meant to impress in every way to children, normally unless the script ask that an adult who has seen many movies. The children fill in the gaps with imagination. That does not mean that you might like more people but it is obvious that the film team cared very little of that history was at the height of both budget.
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