JEM (AND SAM): A REVENGER'S TALE. by Ferdinand Mount
They always wriggle out of danger, with a wisecrack, a weapon and a smile. Eddie and Paul are two innocents abroad, except they're not innocent at all. They're low-level wise guys who never really have a grip on anything. The controlling intelligence in the story is Phoebe Fox's insecure lawyer, Katherine.
She's always one step ahead of the game - but is she ready to fall in love? Written by tommy dinolaine. A film that made me cackle out loud. Ben Jean Ralphio Schwartz bounced off the uber cool Sam Rockwell and actress Ive never seen before, Phoebe Fox steals the show as a food obsessed genius lawyer. The plot moves from one insane scene to another and you never know what to expect, I just went with it and laughed my ass off. Its got an old 80s vibe, all rough and scratchy which fitted well with the whole music they used. A real fun retro blast. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet!
How '' Changed Michael Mando's Life. Related News Film Review: Share this Rating Title: Blue Iguana 5. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Learn more More Like This. The Spy Who Dumped Me Crazy Rich Asians Cat later finds holes in Sam's story about being an innocent victim, and later realizes he was Frank Darnell's accomplice.
Sam tries to point her in the direction of Gabriel Lowan , Cat's boyfriend, to deflect suspicion. However, Cat, Vincent, J. There, Vincent finds a bomb, and figures out Sam wants to kill them so they won't interfere in his plan. They let it detonate to fake Gabe's death, hoping Sam will think they believe Gabe was guilty, and will carry out his plan. Sam goes after a man named Jacob Sutter, who grew up in an orphanage run by Muirfield, and injects him with the serum, turning him into a beast.
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Meanwhile, Gabe figures out that Sam is Tony Barnes. Cat finds out Sam is looking for revenge against the people who killed his son. Sam escapes, and tracks down another Muirfield orphan named Xavier Wright. Cat manages to find Sam, but he reveals that he strapped a bomb to Xavier, which he detonates by remote once he gets the information. Vincent, though, manages to get the bomb off Xavier before it went off, and is able to save Xavier, while Cat arrests Sam.
Cat goes to find Vincent, and Sam swallows a vial of beast serum. Michael Bay went so big that it became too big, and I think you lost the anchor of the movie You lost a bit of the relationships. Unless you have those relationships, then the movie doesn't matter.
Then it's just a bunch of robots fighting each other. According to The Washington Post , Revenge of the Fallen was Bay's worst-reviewed film at the time of release, faring even worse than Pearl Harbor It's easy to walk away feeling like you've spent 2 hours in the mad, wild, hydraulic embrace of a car compactor ". Roger Ebert , who had given the film three stars, [] gave the sequel only one, calling it " Later in his review, Ebert discouraged movie-goers from seeing the film by saying "If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together.
Then close your eyes and use your imagination. Revenge of the Fallen will be studied in film classes and shown at cult film festivals. It will be seen, in retrospect, as marking the end of an era. Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers did not give the film any stars, considering that " Revenge of the Fallen has a shot at the title 'Worst Movie of the Decade'.
Other reviewers, while still critical, were less damning of the film, The A. Club gave the film a "C-", complaining about the writing and length, but mentioning the effects and action scenes were impressive. And many other words beginning with B, including boneheadedly brilliant.
But it knows how to feed your inner year-old's appetite for destruction. On a year-end poll administered by Moviefone , the film was voted the "worst film of ", and Fox's performance the worst by an actress that year.
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There was considerable negative reaction to the characters Mudflap and Skids, who some perceived as embodying racist stereotypes. I think that would be very foolish, and if someone wants to be offended by it, it's their right. We were very surprised when we saw it, too, and it's a choice that was made.
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If anything, it just shows you that we don't control every aspect of the movie. Instead of using IMAX for complete unbroken sequences similar to director Christopher Nolan 's approach for The Dark Knight , Bay chose to use the format primarily on a shot-by-shot basis, combining conventional 35mm footage and IMAX shots in the same sequence.
That approach, combined with rapid cutting, created a jarring, highly unpleasant experience for most moviegoers. Despite mostly negative reviews from critics, the film was a box office success. Revenge of the Fallen remained 1 at the box office for two weeks straight by a close margin. Initial studio estimates showed a tie between it and that weekend's new release Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Dark of the Moon.
Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 53 million tickets in the US. Both two-disc editions are the first to include Paramount's Augmented Reality feature, which allows the user to handle a 3D model of Optimus Prime on a computer by moving the package in front of a webcam.
The Blu-ray version had the best first-week sales of , with 1. The Squeakquel and Miley Cyrus , respectively. The third film, Dark of the Moon was released June 29, The fourth film, Age of Extinction was released June 27, The fifth film, The Last Knight was released on June 21, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the film. For other uses, see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen disambiguation. List of Transformers film series characters.
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