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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:3

Rotten:8

Average Rating:4.2/10

Consensus: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a noisy, underplotted, and overlong special effects extravaganza that lacks a human touch.

Rated: 12A

Runtime: 2 hrs 29 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:19-06-2009

Synopsis: In the highly-anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, debuting June 24, 2009, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) again joins with the Autobots® against their sworn enemies, the... In the highly-anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, debuting June 24, 2009, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) again joins with the Autobots® against their sworn enemies, the Decepticons®. Michael Bay directs from a screenplay written by Ehren Kruger & Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman. --© Paramount [More]

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas, John Turturro

Director: Michael Bay

Director: Michael Bay
Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Producer: Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Ian Bryce
Composer: Steve Jablonsky
Studio: DreamWorks Distribution LLC

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While it would be hard to make a case for ‘Revenge of the Fallen’ as ‘good’ in any normal sense of the word, it possesses such brute force that the viewer is left with two options: surrender, or suffer in silence.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment 1 Comment
06/19/09
Tom Huddlestone
Tom Huddlestone
Time Out
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Revenge Of The Fallen isn't only louder than Transformers, however. It's longer, it's more explosive, it's more directionless, it's all the proof you'll ever need that more really isn't always more.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment 39 Comments
06/19/09
Richard Luck
Richard Luck
Channel 4 Film
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It’s like being hit over the head repeatedly with a very expensive, very loud train set.After two and a half hours in this bludgeoning company, you’re begging Bay to put away the boys’ toys and make a rom-com.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment 9 Comments
06/19/09
Ed Potton
Ed Potton
Times [UK]
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At once loud and boring, like watching paint dry while getting hit over the head with a frying pan. And at two and a half hours, it really is very long.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment 10 Comments
06/19/09
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Bay’s is a cinema on steroids, pursuing a body-builder’s dream of eternal growth -- it must bulge constantly outward, veins popping like twigs from its ever-flexed biceps.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment 4 Comments
06/19/09
Tim Robey
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph
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A super-sized second helping, but the novelty factor and some of the charm’s gone. Hey, at least there’s more Megatron / Starscream squabbling this time round.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment 2 Comments
06/15/09
Nick De Semlyen
Nick De Semlyen
Empire Magazine
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Though battles are Transformers' raison d'être, before it's over, Revenge will collapse under the weight of far too many of them.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment 2 Comments
06/24/09
Betsy Sharkey
Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times
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In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the director’s subject is as blatant and consistent as his cluttered mise-en-scène.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment 22 Comments
06/23/09
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment 57 Comments
06/23/09
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Fan boys will no doubt love it, but for the uninitiated it's loud, tedious and, at 147 minutes, way too long.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment 53 Comments
06/16/09
Ray Bennett
Ray Bennett
Hollywood Reporter
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With machines that are impressively more lifelike, and characters that are more and more like machines, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen takes the franchise to a vastly superior level of artificial intelligence.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment 4 Comments
06/16/09
Jordan Mintzer
Jordan Mintzer
Variety
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