Myst #4: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

I love movies with special effects and with a lot action along with a touch of romance to show the extent of how far the characters are willing to go to protect or save or help the other character. The special effects expands my imagination as to what the director can do and bring to life. I especially love how the actors interact with the computer generated forms ranging from robots to a whole world. With that in mind, I don't like when the entire movie is based entirely on the special effects without reason. The Director Michael Bay directed all the Transformers along with "Pain & Gain" and "Pearl Harbor" which are action movies that has good editing from special effects to the editing in someone being cut in half putting the audience in amazement with seeing the effects across the movies and some wondering to themselves "how did he do that" when watching one of his movies. When I was watching the movie, I was kept at the edge of my seat while watching the movie because of how realistic the transformers looked and amount of action with explosion and special effects mixed into it despite the story line itself. I mean the storyline was good and all but it wasn't extremely good material and could've been revised a few times more to improve the story but other than it was good.

Towards the beginning of the film, we are going to take a close look at when Alice (Isabel Lucas) transformed into an evil transformer from human to a robot. (Spoiler) When Alice transformed, her face transforms and than the rest of her body follows with the whole transformation. The composition is her flash turns inside out as her metallic body comes out and overcomes eats away her flash as she is getting prepared to kill Sam (Shia Labeouf). As she transforms, the sunlight being shined through the window casts a shadow from the robot as even the smallest want to look as real as it can with her transformation and her surroundings. The camera zooms in on her at a low angle to show the dominance and of how evil she is. The close up shot indicates the significance of her and how important she is as she starts the hunt for Sam and the surprise she also brings.

Another scene was towards the end when Sam stabs Optimus Prime to revive him. What Amazes me about this scene is how Sam goes on top of Optimus, it looks like as if Optimus was actually real and not computer simulated. When Sam stabs Optimus, Optimus moves from the shock and Sam moves along with him and looks like as if he's touching him. The camera switches from medium shots to close shots to show the effect from the cause of Sam stabbing him in his heart and Optimus coming back alive. The medium shot show how big Optimus is and how small Sam and how little chance Sam has at reviving him considering Sam is tiny when compared.

In my opinion, what I enjoyed about the movie was with each different scene there's a different scenario with the special effects and how it plays and important role for a certain character and shows a different composition with the transformers. what I didn't like about the movie was how the storyline was being told. It was in a generic way with the good guy in trouble and somehow coming back to the top and beating the bad guy and saving the day. Don't get me wrong there were some funny and awesome scenes but the majority of it was just descent. I would recommend this movie to those who love action packed movies that has a lot of good special effects.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen