Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen

[Jeritron]

Originally Posted by Fox Really don't see how the plot was a huge mess. Seemed pretty straight forward to me. Been reading all these reviews for the film and God, I just had to stop due to all the negativity pouring in. It's like these people watched a completely different movie than I did.

I didn't give a negative review. I said I enjoyed myself. But yes, I still think the plot was a huge mess.
It's not about whether I got it or no. I obviously got it. It was just evil robots trying to take over the world.
But it was still all over the place. The MacGuffin switched like 4 times in a half hour. First they were looking for the shard, then they were trying to kill Prime, then they were looking for Sam's shard, or were they looking for that at first too? That was never really explained.

Freeing Megatron seemed to happen on a whim. Then Megatron flew to Saturn to report to his master. No explanation for when that relationship began. Then they were back to kill Optimus Prime.

I'm not claiming it was complex or mind-boggling. It was just all over the place. About an hour into the movie I wasn't sure what the conflict was. There was about 5, while at the same time not really having one. There wasn't much motivation behind anything.
It wasn't that it wasn't straightforward, it was that there was far too much going on for it's own good. I guess it was a way to get more robots in there though.

But it's okay. It's a summer action movie. I just think they could have been better off slimming it down. Honestly, Megatron and others served absolutely no purpose to the story other than to carry their own weight that was placed upon the movie.

There were dozens of robots doing all kinds of different things and there wasn't much explanation. Also, didn't really understand why one transfromer could imitate a human being perfectly and was just a henchmen. Why wouldn't they all be doing that?
Doesn't really matter. Just saying.