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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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Two years after he and his Autobot friends saved the Earth from the Decepticons, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) faces a new battle: college. Meanwhile, Optimus Prime and the Autobots are working with a secret military organization and trying to make a home for themselves on Earth. When an ancient Decepticon known as The Fallen rises up to wreak vengeance, Sam and his girlfriend, Mikaela, must figure out the history of the Transformers on Earth and find a way to defeat The Fallen once and for all.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a noisy, underplotted, and overlong special effects extravaganza that lacks a human touch.

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Mary F. Pols TIME Magazine The movie is like the play date from hell, the kind where a crew of children reduce your home to rubble and conduct endless bouts of loud war on the living-room floor while you ponder the propriety of opening a bottle of wine. Jun 9, 2014 Full Review Paul Brunick Film Comment Magazine Eager to get myself into the right mindset for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I turned to the multiplex patron sitting next to me and politely asked him to slam my head against the forward seatback. Jun 9, 2014 Full Review Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor I would like to think that even if I was 14, either in body or spirit, I would still find this film an impossibly, incomprehensibly overlong and cacophonous bore. Rated: D- Jun 9, 2014 Full Review Patrick Cavanaugh The Wolfman Cometh It's hard to believe so much money was spent on something so horrendously, both visually and narratively. Rated: 1/5 Sep 11, 2025 Full Review JD Duran InSession Film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is an extremely flawed film that re-hashes the same shots and didn't know where to take it's story... Rated: C- Aug 19, 2024 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Bay finds every reason and no reason at all to blow stuff up real good, proving once again why he should be directing energy drinks commercials and music videos, but not motion pictures. Rated: 0.5/4 Sep 4, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Nathan J. Rating: 5.5/10 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a loud, chaotic, and incoherent sequel that's a technical marvel but a creative disaster. The film's poor storytelling, grating characters, and juvenile humor make it a punishing watch. Highlights - Visual Effects: The visual effects are a staggering technical achievement, with impressive CGI robots and massive-scale action. - Action Sequence: The "forest fight" sequence is a brutal and fantastic piece of action choreography. Criticisms - Nonsensical Plot: The screenplay is a catastrophic mess, with an incomprehensible mythology and no emotional core. - Offensive Characters: The film features grating and offensive characters. - Poor Direction: Michael Bay's direction is noisy, hyperactive, and visually incoherent, with juvenile humor. Verdict Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a spectacular failure, representing the worst of Michael Bay's film. It's a loud, dumb, and joyless film that's best avoided. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/28/25 Full Review Luke B. The most underrated hidden gem! Alice is sexy AF!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/24/25 Full Review Logan H Nowhere near good as the first movie, but still a pretty decent sequel. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/21/25 Full Review Tauhid E some pretty bad story elements. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/12/25 Full Review Patricio S Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is just a bad movie. The movie provides lots of subplots that have nothing to do with the main plot of this film. There are also lots of dumb things about this film I would ramble about, but the main thing I wanted to share with the audience is the main villain, the Fallen, he barely has any presence or character development, his "Revenge" is confusing, and he basically does nothing, in the end, he gets defeated by Optimus Prime quickly and that's all I can say besides the other problems I wanted to share. Overall, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is not worth watching, even though it still has mind-blowing effects, this risk for you, your friends, and your family to watch this film is up to you. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/24/25 Full Review Cooper G Revenge of the phone isn’t as good as it’s predecessor, because it was me during the writer strike, which led all the jokes to somehow come out as offensive because of how rushed the film is and that there was no enough time to punish the film. If it weren’t for the writer strike the film would’ve been a lot better. But if you get all past the offensive parts, you get a good movie underneath it which is way too potential but from what they got out of the writer strike it’s actually pretty good if they had more time, the film would’ve ended up better. The scene were Optimus prime combined with jet fire to become jet power. Optimus is awesome devastator is a CGI Marvel. The only people that hate him is stupid G1 boomers the way Optimus prime dies and the scene when the Deceptacon’s attack America made the scenery felt hopeless If you happen not to like the film, I’m OK with it because it’s not for you. I couldn’t say the same for the 07 film because it’s actually good and yet people actually hate it a little too much. This film is overheated and deserves at least some respect. The criticism is valid, but the extreme criticism is not valid at all. The film was not as good as the 2007 film but a good movie from what they managed to get out of the writer strike. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/16/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Two years after he and his Autobot friends saved the Earth from the Decepticons, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) faces a new battle: college. Meanwhile, Optimus Prime and the Autobots are working with a secret military organization and trying to make a home for themselves on Earth. When an ancient Decepticon known as The Fallen rises up to wreak vengeance, Sam and his girlfriend, Mikaela, must figure out the history of the Transformers on Earth and find a way to defeat The Fallen once and for all.
Director
Michael Bay
Producer
Ian Bryce, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto, Don Murphy
Screenwriter
Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Paramount Pictures, Di Bonaventura Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures
Rating
PG-13 (Crude and Sexual Material|Brief Drug Material|Intense Seq. of Sci-Fi Action|Intense Seq. of Sci-Fi Violenc|Language)
Genre
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 24, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$402.1M
Runtime
2h 29m
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