The ten most confusing things in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Now, suspension of disbelief is usually not a problem for me. Tell me that a billionaire could put on a bat suit and swoop around fighting crime and I’ll buy it. Or that a different billionaire could build flying armor in his basement. Or that in the future people will beam onto spaceships with their pointy-eared best friend. I’ll accept all of it. I’ll even take your word for it that a mechanized alien race can come to our planet, scan some cars, and turn themselves into vehicles.
That being said, there were moments in this new “Transformers” movie that were so confusing, so contradictory, or so corny that they completely took me out of the movie. Even days after watching it, some new inconsistency or plot hole would pop into my mind.
After rewatching the first one a couple of days ago, the first question definitely came to mind:
In “Transformers,” there was this giant battle in the middle of downtown Los Angeles — excuse me, Mission City — that was witnessed by thousands of people at the very least. But somehow the government was able to cover up the whole thing, and now the existence of alien robots is just an internet rumor? How did they do it? Pay off everyone who was there and quickly fix millions of dollars in damage? Also, didn’t Keller (Jon Voight) go on TV and tell everyone we were being attacked by “a technological civilization far superior to our own”? How did they spin that?
The movie is full of things big and small that make me shake my head. They may as well have thrown that dunking footage in there and used a couple lines to explain it. (“Autobots! I need to relax for a bit.”) Off the top of my head, here are some things I’d add to the list: Why does Jetfire have a cane? What college consists of 80% females who are 110% hot and how do I get in? (Thanks, Albert.)