2009 · sci-fi · action · adventure
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Directed by Michael Bay2h 30m2009
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Our read: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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How Transformers feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want maximum robot absurdity including Egypt and Decepticon chaos.”
Skip it tonight — You cannot tolerate leering shots, racist caricatures, or incoherent plotting.
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