Well, I just came back from my viewing of TF: ROTF. And even if my mind hurts and my @@ are swollen (one can take that much of Megan Fox οn a giant screen), I decided to share a review with you.
The beginning was good in terms of pacing, action and introducing Optimus by having him transforming in mid-air was very cool. And I kept looking for something to bash, but the movie was progressing rather well. Having Megan Fox perfectly lit and shot at with a hi-def camera does some...things in your...metabolism too. It was only after the Kitchen Decepticons appeared that I started cringing. But still, the movie had good pacing and I found myself having a good time.
I enjoyed viewing a College in the "Bayverse". Cool cribs with top-notch PC's and HD TVs, half-naked, half-dressed chicks walking around, parties and killer bots...Killer bots? That look like Isabel Lucas? So far so good. I can accept the ol' Terminatrix plot (surely, she must have killed the human version and take her place, because registering in a college BEFORE your target does, would be silly). I can even thank Michael Bay for giving me gratuitous shots of her... you know, but once she was revealed to be a Pretender and did that tongue thing, it was beginning to surpass my "TOO MUCH" indicator. It looked very bad and was overdone after the first 3 seconds.
All the bad parts that critics and fans point at were there: The Twins are 2009's Jar Jar Binks, void of character development and sense of humor. That Leo guy that was put there as a sidekick was way too annoying for me (the "Oh-My-God" is this movie's "No!No!No!No!No!No!"). And there was also something else, I couldn't put my finger on it, but about 30 minutes before the end, it hit me: This movie is OVER-MILITARIZED to the point of ridicule! OK, I can accept the Autobots working with the US Army, but Bay overdid it: At one point, a military guy (I can't even remember all the ranks), reports of some "PSDs that found some traces of IGAs moving towards the POM. Have the TEVs ready to launch in OH-6-Bravo-Ten" or something. And then the scene changes to the &$"§% PENTAGON!! And after that to some soldiers in the desert, fighting the Decepticons with..machine guns? Like that ever stopped a single alien, let alone GIANT,NEARLY-INDESTRUCTIBLE ROBOTS! And more airplanes, tanks and even an EXPERIMENTAL RAY GUN??? Big minus here... They could edit out the military scenes and save half an hour of screen time, without any lack of plot (?) development.
Another big minus, spotted half-way into the movie, was the constant cursing. A-hole? Mother.....? P&/%? While I am not to be offended by those, I found out that they took me out of the movie. They felt forced and bad-delivered.
The movie peaked for me when the Autobots arrived to save Sam from getting scalped until the forest battle and Optimus' death. There was something awesome about..let me think...oh, yes, robots actually shooting and fighting each other! And all in spectacular blending with the environment, with 50 explosions per second and Steve "I am the next Hans Zimmer when it comes to militaristic soundtracks" Jablonsky's score sending pleasure waves to my ears.
After that, it was dragging a bit. Jetfire was good in concept but I wasn't THAT impressed by him. The fart/old-guy slapstick didn't help either and his sacrifice near the end felt a bit forced, but the result was still cool.
The Fallen was very interesting, a Palpatine to Megatron's Vader (he even says "my apprentice" at one point) but also a bit underused.
I could also live with a little less Agent Simmons. He was over the top but still, the german audience seemed to LOVE him, I mean, like, they were laughing at everything he said or did.
This is it more or less. The plot doesn't take much more analysis, I think :P
Despite my negative tone, I give it 4/5,while I deliberately ignore all its faults, just because, in the end, I had a good time.
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yup my scentiments exactly!!!
