Much like the first film, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has taken a critical beating for a lack of plot and not making sense. I, much like the first movie, seemed to understand or "grasp" the plot of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I really had written off all the negative reviews and articles on the subject and moved on until I started watching the original cartoons this last week with my kid. In the first episode, they reveal very simply that they are looking for Energon, which is the life-blood and energy substance of the Transformers (let's compare it to gasoline for a car), to return to Cybertron. Now, let's read a segment of the plot of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and really see if there's no story or plot.
It is revealed that thousands of years before Optimus Prime and the other Transformers arrived on Earth, there was a race of ancient Transformers who scoured the universe looking for Energon sources. Known as the Dynasty of Primes, they used a weapon called the Sun Harvester to drain stars of their energy in order to convert it to Energon and power Cybertron’s AllSpark. The Primes agreed that life-bearing worlds would be spared, but when one brother, who was thereafter dubbed "The Fallen", constructed a Sun Harvester on Earth in 17,000 BC, the remaining brothers sacrificed their bodies in order to hide the Matrix of Leadership, the key that powers the Sun Harvester, from The Fallen, who swore to seek revenge upon Earth once he found the key.Now, I'm not going to go and put an entire summary of the movie up and spoil it for people who haven't seen it, so if you want more of the plot breakdown, then go here. Not only is it stated clearly what the Transformers' motivation is and what they are looking for in the film, but the character Jetfire even goes through an entire dialogue explaining that Energon is "a Transformer's lifeblood and without it, they simply rust and fall apart."
That's all I have left to say about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Who's really to blame here? The writer's of the film or the critics who obviously don't pay enough attention to what's going on in front of them to give the movie a review that merits what the film is really all about - giant robots fighting each other and looking for Energon. Oh, and blowing stuff up from at least 25 different angles.
I love when movies like James Bond, the Jack Ryan films, or even the first Mission: Impossible come along and are called complex and intricate because you have to see them more than once to completely grasp the story; but then you throw in giant robots, mystical symbols, science fiction elements, and too many explosions and the film is written off as completely intolerable and beyond understanding.
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