2009
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Tuturro, Ramon Rodriguez
Director: Michael Bay
Runtime: 150 Minutes
Distributor: Paramount
Rating: PG-13

For all its gloriously silly excess the first live action Transformers movie was a harmonic convergence of director and material. Perhaps for the first time Michael Bay was granted legitimate free reign to indulge his inner thirteen-year-old with high-octane carnage, vehicle porn, ‘splosions, and his pathological obsession with helicopters. Seemingly Bay was born to direct this franchise and he duly delivered a smash hit that was everything it needed to be; big, bold, brash, and very, very loud.

Revenge of The Fallen should by rights be Bay’s Empire Strikes Back, with the stage set for an all-action follow up that broadens the scope, darkens the tone, and even offers an Emperor figure (The Fallen) to stand alongside Mengatron’s Darth Vader. But just as it seemed he had found his place in the filmmaking world – helming $150 million toy adverts – paradise duly crumbles, and St. Michael delivers a plodbuster that’s chaotic, unfocused, lazy, and one that violates that most sacred of cinematic commandments – thou shalt not bore.

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