First of all, the original plan was to watch the movie in an IMAX theater at the Mall of Asia. Unfortunately, we did not make it to the 10:45 AM slot — next screening was 1:15 and already sold out — so we ended up buying a regular premiere pass for a regular movie screening instead.

Second, having enjoyed the first movie installment, I was already imagining that it’s going to give me the same degree of fun and excitement despite the movie’s more than two hours total running time, not to mention the long queues that greeted us when we bought our tickets.

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Forty-five minutes into the movie I was already beginning to yawn and feel sleepy no matter how spectacular the fighting robots were. Even Bumblebee, who happened to be my favorite Autobots, did not help in reviving my interest. Seriously, I just thought Michael Bay tried so hard to squeeze in a lot of things just to make the movie entertaining — from Megan Fox’s overboard seductiveness, to Sam’s (Shia LaBeouf) forever-debating parents, to the non-stop babbling twin Autobots.

There were also too many sentimental scenes in the Revenge of the Fallen which somehow made me feel like I am watching some local soap opera. And finally, I didn’t like that the movie started with all the fight scenes going on too soon, making it quite predictable as what’s gonna happen next.