Whereas Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” continued the franchise’s field workplace success, incomes greater than $800 million worldwide in opposition to a funds estimated to be within the $200-210 million vary, the movie was a significant important flop — particularly in comparison with the primary “Transformers.”
2007’s “Transformers” wasn’t a important darling by any means, but it surely did earn a 57% critic ranking on Rotten Tomatoes and a 61/100 on Metacritic — the best rating among the many Bay-directed motion pictures. In the meantime, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” noticed its scores sharply fall from its predecessor, with a 20% critic ranking on Rotten Tomatoes and a 35/100 on Metacritic. So, what modified? In response to producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, a significant factor for the movie’s important downfall was a rushed script and manufacturing, and the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike. “That basically screwed us up,” di Bonaventura instructed Empire Journal (through Readly). “The issue is you do not get to evolve your script […] Paramount did not have plenty of different belongings at the moment, so the choice was to plough ahead.”
Whereas the third movie within the franchise carried out barely higher with critics, the final two installments directed by Bay by no means reached larger marks than the low scores of the Megan Fox-less “Transformers: Darkish of the Moon.” Fortunately, devoted followers wished to see visible results and magnificence over substance, as the primary 5 “Transformers” movies all carried out properly on the field workplace, as they did not skimp on the blockbuster motion and had been true popcorn flicks, whatever the important reception.