Thursday, 9 July 2009

40: TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE FALLEN

Early Saturday morning at the movies seems to be the way forward - hardly anyone goes! Or maybe it's because no one goes to the Cineworld in Staples Corner. Why put a cinema in the middle of a business park? Weird. Take note Cineworld: there's a perfectly empty Bingo Hall on Kilburn High Road waiting to rise up again as a new cinema!


This is such a confusing movie - the plot is incomprehensible and the action scenes are impossible to follow. Round of applause if you can follow who's who where and when in this movie. The effects are good but the Transformers themselves are overly detailed and complex to the point I couldn't see where their heads were half the time. Lines are corny, acting wooden and the writers have a frustrating habit of changing the rules in order to move the plot forward. I mean, when did Transformers start disguising themselves as people a la Terminator? Disappointing.

3 out of 10

Sunday, 5 July 2009

39: YEAR ONE

A switch to comedy at the Trocadero in the last weekend of June; always a risky move. Comedy, that is; not the Trocadero.

Should be called "Laugh One". Up to you to spot where the laugh comes from. Actually, don't bother.

1 out of 10