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Watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen full movie free on line. Sam Witwicky departs the Autobots behind him in a exchange for a random life. However when his brain is full of cryptic signs, the Decepticons focus on him in which he is drawn into the Transformers war.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fictionaction film directed by Michael Bay and based on the Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to 2007's Transformers, as well as the second installment in the live-actionTransformers film series. Taking place two years after the first film, the story revolves around Sam Witwicky, who is caught in the war between the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime and the Decepticons, led by Megatron. Sam begins having strange visions of Cybertronian symbols, and is being hunted by the Decepticons under the orders of an ancient Decepticon named The Fallen, who seeks to get revenge on Earth by finding and activating a machine that would provide the Decepticons with an energon source, destroying the Sun and all life on Earth in the process. Returning Transformers include Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Ratchet, Megatron, Starscream, and Scorponok.

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With deadlines jeopardized by possible strikes by the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild, Bay managed to finish the production on time with the help of previsualization and a scriptment by his writers David Marconi, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and series newcomer Ehren Kruger. Shooting took place from May to September 2008, with locations in Egypt, Jordan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and California, as well as air bases in New Mexico and Arizona. It is the last film in the series to star Megan Fox, and is also the last film in the series to be co-produced by DreamWorks Pictures, leaving Paramount Pictures as the sole distributor of its future sequels, starting with Dark of the Moon.

Revenge of the Fallen premiered on June 8, 2009 in Tokyo and was released on June 24, 2009 in the United States. Critical reception was overwhelmingly negative, with critics considering it to be inferior to the first film. Critics panned the film's script, rude humor, characters, performances, and runtime, while praising the visual effects, action scenes, score, and the performances of Peter Cullen and Hugo Weaving. The film won three Golden Raspberry Awards at the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony and became the highest-grossing film to win the Worst Picture award. The film surpassed its predecessor at the box office, grossing a total of $402.1 million in the US and Canada and $434.2 million in other territories, for a total of $836.3 million worldwide, making it the 33rd highest-grossing domestic film and fourth-highest of the year worldwide. With over 11 million home media sales in 2009, it was also the top-selling film of the year in the United States. It was followed by Dark of the Moon in 2011, Age of Extinction in 2014, and The Last Knight in 2017.

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Plot[edit]

In 17,000 B.C., the Seven Primes travel across the universe to create Energon with star-absorbing machines called Sun Harvesters, which destroy stars in order to collect their raw material. One of them defies the rule to never to destroy a planet with life by establishing a Sun Harvester on Earth, earning him the name 'The Fallen'. The Fallen is confronted by the other Primes, who imprison him before he can harvest the Sun using the Matrix of Leadership. The rest of the Primes then sacrifice themselves to hide the Matrix in an unknown location.

In the present, two years after the Battle of Mission City, the Autobots and the U.S. military have formed the Non-biological Extraterrestrial Species Treaty (NEST), a classified international task force in order to eliminate the surviving Decepticons. In Shanghai, the Autobots intercept two Decepticons, Demolisher and Sideways. Sideways is killed by the Autobot Sideswipe, while Optimus Prime kills Demolisher, but not before he warns them of the Fallen's return. At NEST's secure headquarters in Diego Garcia, National Security Adviser Theodore Galloway concludes that since Megatron's corpse is at the bottom of the Laurentian Abyss and the last-known AllSpark shard is secured in the base, the Decepticons must still be on Earth solely to hunt the Autobots. The Decepticon Soundwave hacks into a military satellite, overhears this information, and sends Ravage to retrieve the shard.

Meanwhile, Sam Witwicky is preparing to attend college, leaving his girlfriend Mikaela Banes and guardian Bumblebee behind. He finds a smaller AllSpark shard and picks it up, causing him to see Cybertronian symbols. As a side effect, the shard's energy brings various kitchen appliances to life, who then attack Sam and his family. After Bumblebee kills the living appliances, Sam gives the shard to Mikaela, who later captures the Decepticon Wheelie when he attempts to steal it. At the Laurentian Abyss, the Constructicons, using the stolen shard and parts ripped off from one of their own allies, resurrect Megatron. Megatron then travels to one of Saturn's moons, where he reunites with his second in command, Starscream, and his master, the Fallen, who orders him to capture Sam alive and kill Optimus, as he is the only Transformer who can defeat the Fallen. After killing Alice, a Decepticon Pretender disguised as a college student, Sam, Mikaela and his college roommate, Leo are captured by the Decepticon Grindor and taken to an abandoned factory. Megatron reveals that the symbols in Sam's mind will lead the Decepticons to a new Energon source before Optimus and Bumblebee arrive to rescue the trio. Optimus engages Megatron, Starscream, and Grindor, killing the latter in the process, before being killed by Megatron. The other Autobots arrive and repel the Decepticons, forcing Megatron and Starscream to retreat. The Decepticons then launch devastating, simultaneous attacks around the world, while The Fallen hijacks Earth's telecommunications systems, demanding that Sam be handed over to him.

Sam, Mikaela, and Leo enlist the help of former Sector Seven agent, Seymour Simmons, who reveals the Transformers visited Earth eons ago and the most ancient, known as Seekers, remained on Earth, hiding in secret. With help from Wheelie, they track down a Decepticon Seeker named Jetfire at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. They use their shard to revive Jetfire, who teleports the group to Egypt and explains the story of the Fallen. Following Jetfire's example, Wheelie sides with the Autobots, and Jetfire sends them to locate the Matrix, which could be used to revive Optimus. The group find the Matrix in Petra, but it disintegrates into dust. Nevertheless, Sam stuffs the Matrix's remains into one of his socks.

Meanwhile, NEST forces and the Autobots land near the Giza pyramid complex and are attacked by a large force of Decepticons. During the battle, the Constructicons combine to form Devastator, who destroys one of the pyramids to reveal the Sun Harvester inside before he is killed by a U.S. Navy destroyer's railgun. Ravage and the Decepticon Rampage attempt to spring a trap, using Sam's captured parents as bait, in order to force Sam to give them the Matrix, but Bumblebee interferes and kills them both. Major William Lennox and Sergeant Robert Epps call in an airstrike that kills the majority of the Decepticon ground forces. However, Megatron manages to shoot Sam, mortally wounding him, before retreating after coming under attack by fighter jets. As Sam nears death the Primes speak to him through a vision, saying that the Matrix must be earned, not found, and that he has now earned the right to bear it. They restore Sam's life and the Matrix, which he uses to revive Optimus.

The Fallen teleports to their location and steals the Matrix from Optimus, then returns to the pyramid with Megatron and activates the Sun Harvester. Jetfire, who was gravely wounded by Scorponok during the battle (but, despite his injures, managed to kill his attacker), sacrifices himself in order to transplant his parts to Optimus, which gives Optimus immense strength and the ability to fly. Optimus destroys the Harvester before incapacitating Megatron and killing the Fallen; Megatron retreats with Starscream, vowing vengeance. The victorious Autobots and their allies then go back to the United States and Sam returns to college.

Cast[edit]

• Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky
  A recent high school graduate who is unwittingly drawn again into the Autobot cause to unravel an ancient mystery implanted into his mind by the now-destroyed Allspark.
• Megan Fox as Mikaela Banes
  Sam's girlfriend whom he trusts as the Allspark fragments begin to unravel.
• Josh Duhamel as William Lennox
  A U.S. ArmyMajor who establishes NEST to help the Autobots in their battle against the remaining Decepticons.
• Tyrese Gibson as Robert Epps
  A U.S. Air Force sergeant in Lennox's team who leads NEST's SWAT unit.
• John Turturro as Seymour Simmons
  A former agent of the recently terminated Sector 7 who now runs a meat shop in New York City with his mother, Tova Simmons.
• Ramon Rodriguez as Leo Spitz
  A college roommate of Sam's who runs an online conspiracy blog and is obsessed with the Transformers.
• Kevin Dunn as Ron Witwicky
  Sam's father.
• Julie White as Judith Witwicky
  Sam's mother.
• Isabel Lucas as Alice
  A female pretender sent to spy on Sam in college.
• John Benjamin Hickey as Theodore Galloway
  A national security adviser who often chastises NEST and the Autobots for their destructive tactics.
• Glenn Morshower as General Morshower
  The supervisor of NEST.
• Matthew Marsden as Graham
  A British Army NEST officer.
• Rainn Wilson as Professor R.A. Colan
  Sam and Leo's astronomy teacher.
• Marc Evan Jackson as Commander
  U.S. Central Command
• Katie Lowes as April

Voices[edit]

• Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime
  The leader of the Autobots who transforms into a blue and red 1994 Peterbilt 379 semi-trailer truck.
• Hugo Weaving as Megatron
  The Fallen's apprentice and the leader of the Decepticons who transforms into both a Cybertronian tank and jet.
• Tony Todd as The Fallen
  A rogue Prime who is the first and founder of the Decepticons, as well as the master of Megatron.
• Mark Ryan as Jetfire
  An ancient Decepticon-turned-Autobot Seeker who transforms into a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.^[a]
• Jess Harnell as Ironhide
  The Autobot weapons specialist and Optimus's new second-in-command who transforms into a black 2006 GMC Topkick C4500.
• Charlie Adler as Starscream
  Megatron's second-in-command who transforms into a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
• Robert Foxworth as Ratchet
  The Autobot medical officer who transforms into a yellow 2004 search and rescueHummer H2 ambulance.
• Frank Welker as:
  • Soundwave
    The Decepticon communications officer who transforms into a Cybertronian satellite. He is only seen orbiting earth in this film.
  • Devastator
    A massive Decepticon who is the combination of eight Constructicons.
  • Reedman, a razor-thin Decepticon composed of thousands of minuscule bead-like Decepticons.^[b]
• André Sogliuzzo as Sideswipe
  The Autobot combat instructor who transforms into a silver 2009 Chevrolet CorvetteStingray concept car.
• Tom Kenny as:
  • Wheelie
    A former Decepticon drone and later an Autobot who transforms into a blue radio-controlled toy monster truck.
  • Skids
    An Autobot messenger and Mudflap's twin who transforms into a green 2007 Chevrolet Beat.
• Reno Wilson as Mudflap
  An Autobot infiltrator and Skids' twin who transforms into a red 2007 Chevrolet Trax.
• Grey DeLisle as Arcee
  A female Autobot who transforms into a pink Ducati 848.^[c]
• Calvin Wimmer as Demolishor (credited as 'Wheelbot')
  A massive Constructicon who transforms into a red and white TerexO&K RH 400 excavator.
• John DiCrosta as Scalpel (credited as 'Doctor')
  A spider-like Decepticon who transforms into a microscope.
• Michael York as Prime #1
  One of the Seven Primes.
• Kevin Michael Richardson as:
  • Prime #2
    One of the Seven Primes.
  • Rampage (credited as 'Skipjack')
    A Constructicon who transforms into a red Caterpillar D9T bulldozer. He forms the left leg of Devastator and is killed by Bumblebee when trying to obtain the Matrix from Sam.
• Robin Atkin Downes as Prime #3
  One of the Seven Primes

Non-speaking characters[edit]

• Jolt
  An Autobot technician who transforms into a blue Chevrolet Volt.
• Sideways
  A Decepticon surveillance agent who transforms into a silver Audi R8; he hides out in Shanghai alongside Demolishor.
• Scorponok
  A scorpion-like Decepticon who was a minion of Blackout in the previous film.
• Scrapper
  A Constructicon who transforms into a yellow Caterpillar 992G scoop loader and forms the right arm of Devastator.
• Mixmaster
  A Constructicon who transforms into a black and silver Mack concrete mixer truck and forms the head of Devastator.
• Scrapmetal
  A Constructicon who transforms into a yellow Volvo EC700C crawler excavator fitted with a Stanley UP 45SV attachment.
• Long Haul
  A Constructicon who transforms into a green Caterpillar 773B dump truck and forms the right leg of Devastator.
• Scavenger
  A large Constructicon who shares the same model of Demolishor, but is not seen in robot mode. He forms the torso of Devastator.
• Hightower
  A Constructicon who transforms into a yellow KOBELCO CKE2500 II crawler crane, but is not seen in robot mode. He forms the left arm of Devastator.
• Overload
  A Constructicon who transforms into a red KW Dart D4661 Tractor Truck articulated dump truck, but is not seen in robot mode. He forms the lower torso of Devastator.
• Ravage
  A feline-like beast sent down by Soundwave to steal the spark from the NEST HQ in order to revive Megatron.

Several clones of Scrapper, Long Haul and Bonecrusher (a decepticon from the first film) are seen during the final battle in Egypt. An unnamed Decepticon bulldozer and dump truck, possibly clones of Rampage and Long Haul, are also seen combining to form Devastator's left hand and left leg, respectively.

Notes

1. ^Mark Ryan also voices Bumblebee, but the character is not listed in the credits.
2. ^Frank Welker also voices Ravage and Grindor, but the characters are not listed in the credits.
3. ^Grey DeLisle also voices Chromia and Elita-One, but the characters are not listed in the credits.

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

Major hurdles for the film's initial production stages included the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike as well as the threat of strikes by other guilds. Prior to a potential Directors Guild of America strike, Bay began creating animatics of action sequences featuring characters rejected for the 2007 film. This would allow animators to complete sequences if the Directors Guild of America went on strike in July 2008, which ultimately did not happen.^[3][4] Bay considered making a small project in between Transformers and its sequel, but decided against the idea, saying 'you have your baby and you don't want someone else to take it'.^[5]

Screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who had written the first film, originally passed on the opportunity to write a sequel due to schedule conflicts. The studio began courting other writers in May 2007, but were unimpressed with other pitches and eventually convinced Orci and Kurtzman to return.^[3] The studio also hired Ehren Kruger, who had impressed Bay and Hasbro president Brian Goldner with his knowledge of the Transformers mythology.^[6] The writing trio were paid $8 million.^[3] Screenwriting was interrupted by the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, but to avoid production delays, the writers spent two weeks writing a treatment, which they handed in the night before the strike began.^[7] Bay then expanded the outline into a 60-page scriptment,^[8] which included more action, humor, and characters.^[7][9] The three writers spent four months finishing the screenplay while 'locked' in two hotel rooms by Bay; Kruger wrote in his own room and the trio would check on each other's work twice a day.^[10]

Orci described the film's theme as 'being away from home', with the Autobots contemplating living on Earth as they cannot restore Cybertron, while Sam goes to college.^[11] He wanted the focus between the robots and humans 'much more evenly balanced',^[12] 'the stakes [to] be higher', and more focused on the science fiction elements.^[13] Orci added he wanted to 'modulate' the humor more,^[14] and felt he managed the more 'outrageous' jokes by balancing them with a more serious plot approach to the Transformers' mythology.^[15] Bay concurred that he wanted to please fans by making the tone darker,^[16] and that 'mums will think it[']s safe enough to bring the kids back out to the movies.'^[17] Two elements were added late into the film: the Autobot Jolt—as General Motors wanted to advertise the Chevrolet Volt—and the railgun that kills Devastator, a new acquisition by the United States military.^[18]

In September 2007, Paramount announced a release date for the sequel to Transformers in late June 2009.^[19] The film was given a $200 million budget, which was $50 million more than the first film,^[20] and some of the action scenes rejected for the original were written into the sequel.^[21] Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura later stated the studio proposed filming two sequels simultaneously, but he and Bay agreed that the idea was not the right direction for the series.^[22]

Prior to the first film's release, producer Tom DeSanto had 'a very cool idea' to introduce the Dinobots,^[23] while Bay was interested in including an aircraft carrier, which was dropped from the 2007 film.^[24] Orci claimed they did not incorporate these characters into Revenge of the Fallen because they could not think of a way to justify the Dinobots' choice of form,^[11] and were unable to fit in the aircraft carrier.^[25] Orci later admitted that he was dismissive of the Dinobots because he does not like dinosaurs, saying 'I recognize I am weird in that department.'^[26] However, he became fonder of them during filming because of their popularity with fans.^[27] He added 'I couldn't see why a Transformer would feel the need to disguise himself in front of a bunch of lizards. Movie-wise, I mean. Once the general audience is fully on board with the whole thing, maybe Dinobots in the future.'^[28] When asked on the subject, Michael Bay said he hated the Dinobots and they had never been in consideration for being featured in the movies.^[29]

During production, Bay attempted to create a misinformation campaign to increase debate over what Transformers would be appearing in the film, as well as to try to throw fans off from the story of the film; however, Orci confessed it was generally unsuccessful.^[25] The studio went as far as to censor MTV and Comic Book Resources interviews with Mowry and Furman, who confirmed Arcee and The Fallen would be in the picture.^[30] Bay told Empire that Megatron would not be resurrected, claiming his new tank form was a toy-only character,^[20] only for Orci to confirm Megatron would return in the film in February 2009.^[31] Bay also claimed he faked the leaking of daily call sheets from the first week of filming, that revealed Ramón Rodríguez's casting,^[32] and the appearance of Jetfire and the twins.^[33]

Filming[edit]

Inspired by its use in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, three action sequences in Revenge of the Fallen were shot using IMAX cameras.^[16] Although screenwriter Roberto Orci suggested that the IMAX footage would be 3D,^[34] Bay later said he found 3D too 'gimmicky'. Bay added that shooting in IMAX was easier than using stereoscopic cameras.^[35]

The majority of interior scenes for the film were shot in the former Hughes Aircraft soundstages at Playa Vista.^[36] From June 2–4, the production filmed an action sequence at the Bethlehem Steel site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which was used to represent a portion of Shanghai.^[8][37] Afterwards, they shot at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.^[38] The crew moved to Philadelphia on June 9, where they shot at a defunct PECO Richmond power station, the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, the Eastern State Penitentiary, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia City Hall, Rittenhouse Square, historic Chancellor Street (which represents a street near Place de la Concorde in Paris), and Wanamaker's.^[39][40] The production moved to Princeton University on June 22.^[41] Filming there angered some students at the University of Pennsylvania, believing Bay had chosen to reshoot scenes at Princeton and script Princeton's name in the film. One shot that was filmed in the University of Pennsylvania was the party scene, filmed at what students call 'The Castle'. 'The Castle' is home to the prestigious Psi Upsilon Fraternity. However, neither the University of Pennsylvania nor Princeton gave Bay permission to be named in the film because of a scene that both institutions felt 'did not represent the school' in which Sam's mother ingests marijuana-laced brownies.^[42]

Bay scheduled a break for filming beginning on June 30, turning his attention to animation and second unit scenes because of the potential guild strike.^[43] Shooting for the Shanghai battle later continued in Long Beach, California.^[44] In September, the crew shot at Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The two locations were used for Qatar in Transformers and stood in for Egypt in this film.^[45] A scale model in Los Angeles was also used for some close-ups of the pyramids.^[20] Shooting at Tucson International Airport and the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group's aircraft boneyard took place in October under the fake working titlePrime Directive (a reference to Star Trek).^[46] Filming also took place at Camp Pendleton and Davis–Monthan Air Force Base.^[36]

The first unit then shot for three days in Egypt at the Giza pyramid complex and Luxor. The shoot was highly secretive, but according to producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, a crew of 150 Americans and 'several dozen local Egyptians' ensured a 'remarkably smooth' shoot.^[47] Bay earned the Egyptian government's approval to film at the pyramids by contacting Zahi Hawass, whom Bay said 'put his arm around me and said, 'Don't hurt my pyramids.''^[36] A 50-foot-tall (15 m) camera crane was used at the location.^[20] Bay stated he found the climax of the first film to be weak, partly because it was shot across five different city blocks, making the action confusing and hard to follow. On this film, the final battle in Egypt was devised to make it easier to follow the action.^[48]

Four days were then spent in Jordan; the Royal Jordanian Air Force aided in filming at Petra, Wadi Rum and Salt because King Abdullah II is a big fan of science fiction movies.^[49][50] Filming continued at the Place de la Concorde in Paris with second unit shots of the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe.^[51] The cast and crew finished principal photography on the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis on November 2, 2008.^[52]

Effects[edit]

Hasbro became more involved in the designs of the robots than the company was for Transformers.^[14] The company, along with Takara Tomy, suggested to the filmmakers that combining robots be the main draw for the sequel.^[53] They insisted on keeping the alternate modes of some of the returning characters similar so that consumers would not have to buy toys of the same characters.^[54] Bay used real F-16 Fighting Falcon and tank fire when filming the battles.^[22] Many of the new Autobot cars supplied by General Motors were brightly colored to look distinctive on screen.^[55]Revenge of the Fallen features 46 robots, while the original movie had 14.^[56]

Scott Farrar returned as visual effects supervisor and anticipated moodier use of lighting as well as deeper roles for the Decepticons.^{[clarification needed]} He stated that with the bigger deadline, post-production would become a 'circus'.^[57] The producers expected that with a bigger budget and the special effects worked out, the Transformers would have a larger role. Peter Cullen recalled, 'Don Murphy mentioned to me, 'Only because of the tremendous expense to animate Optimus Prime, he'll be in just a certain amount of [Transformers].' But he said, 'Next time, if the movie is a success, you're gonna be in it a ton.'^[58] Michael Bay hoped to include more close-ups of the robots' faces.^[59] The heads had to be designed with more pieces in order to express emotions in a more convincing way.^[56] Farrar said the animators implemented more 'splashes and the hits and the fighting on dirt or moving, banging into trees, [..] things splinter and break, [the robots] spit, they outgas, they sweat, they snort.' Shooting in the higher resolution of IMAX required up to 72 hours to render a single frame of animation.^[60][61] While ILM used 15 terabytes for Transformers, they used 140 for the sequel.^[50] Particularly problematic effects were the lighting, with scenes such as Jetfire inside the Smithsonian requiring 41 light sources, and the destruction of the pyramid, which appears in about five shots and required seven months to simulate the behavior of the blocks.^[56] Orci hinted the majority of the Decepticons were entirely computer-generated in both robot and alternate modes, making it easier to write additional scenes for them in post-production.^[62] Rendering the Devastator took over 85% of ILM's render farm capacity, and the complexity of the scene and having to render it at IMAX resolution caused one computer to 'explode'.^[63]

Music[edit]

The score to Revenge of the Fallen was composed by Steve Jablonsky, who reunited with director Michael Bay to record his score with a 71-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage.^[64] Jablonsky and his score producer Hans Zimmer composed various interpretations of a song by Linkin Park called 'New Divide' for the score.^[65]

Marketing[edit]

An additional $150 million was spent to market the film globally.^[66]Hasbro's Revenge of the Fallen toy line included new molds of new and returning characters, as well as 2007 figures with new mold elements or new paint schemes.^[67] The first wave was released on May 30, although Bumblebee and Soundwave debuted beforehand.^[68] The second wave came in August 2009, which introduced toys such as 2¼-inch human action figures that fit inside the transforming robots, and non-transforming replicas of the cars that can be used on a race track. Product placement partners on the film include Burger King, 7-Eleven, LG phones, Kmart, Wal-Mart, YouTube, Nike, Inc. and M&M's, as well as Jollibee in the Philippines.^[69]General Motors' financial troubles limited its involvement in promotion of the sequel, although Paramount acknowledged with or without GM, their marketing campaign was still very large and had the foundation of the 2007 film's success.^[70][71][72]Kyle Busch drove a Revenge of the Fallen decorated car at Infineon Raceway on June 21, 2009,^[73] while Josh Duhamel drove a 2010 Camaro at the Indianapolis 500.^[74] At the movie's launch in China, a version of Bumblebee was constructed using a Volkswagen Jetta.^[75]

Printed media[edit]

Chris Mowry and artist Alex Milne, who had collaborated on The Reign of Starscream comic book, reunited for IDW Publishing's prequel to the film. Originally set to be a five-part series entitled Destiny,^[76] it was split into two simultaneously published series, titled Alliance and Defiance. Alliance is drawn by Milne and began in December 2008; it focuses on the human and Autobot perspectives.^[77]Defiance, which started the following month, is drawn by Dan Khanna and is set before either film, showing the beginnings of the war.^[78]

After the 2007 film, and serving as a bridge between the two films, Alan Dean Foster wrote Transformers: The Veiled Threat,^[79] originally titled Infiltration. During the writing, Foster collaborated with IDW to make sure their stories did not contradict each other.^[80]

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The first printed media directly related to the second film was a 32-page coloring and activity book by publisher HarperCollins, which became available on May 5, 2009 and was the first official source to openly give out key plot points to the film.^[81] On June 1, 2009 DK Publishing published a 96-page book entitled Transformers: The Movie Universe, which intended to provide factual data on the characters of the film.^[82]

On June 10, 2009, the comic book adaptation of the film, written by Simon Furman was released.^[83] Additionally, Alan Dean Foster also wrote the novelization for the film.^[84] Meanwhile, Dan Jolley wrote Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel, a 144-page book oriented at a younger audience than the one by Foster.^[85] Lastly, a book titled Transformers: The Art of the Movies was released, documenting behind-the scenes aspects of the making of the film.

Other minor tie-in publications include Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Last Prime, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Reusable Sticker Book, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Made You Look!, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Rise of the Decepticons, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Spot the 'Bots', Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Mix and Match, Operation Autobot, When Robots Attack and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2010 Wall Calendar.

Video games[edit]

On June 23, 2009, Activision published a video game based on the film for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Nintendo DS, and Games for Windows.

• The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were developed by Luxoflux and published by Activision.^[86][87]
• The Games for Windows version was developed by Beenox, which is similar to the PS3 and Xbox 360 version^[88]
• The Wii and PlayStation 2 versions were developed by Krome Studios.^[89]
• The PlayStation Portable version was developed by Savage Entertainment.^[90]
• The Nintendo DS version was developed by Vicarious Visions, which is separated into two games, Autobots and Decepticons.^[91]

Release[edit]

Revenge of the Fallen premiered on June 8, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.^[92] After its UK release on June 19, 2009, it was released in regular and IMAX theaters in North America on June 24^[93] (though some theaters held limited-access advance screenings on June 22). The IMAX release featured additional scenes of extended robot fighting sequences, which were not seen in the regular theatre version.^[94]

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Reception[edit]

Critical response[edit]

According to the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 19% based on 244 reviews and an average rating of 3.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a noisy, underplotted, and overlong special effects extravaganza that lacks a human touch.'^[95] On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 35 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews'.^[96] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a 'B+', compared to the 'A' that the original film had scored.^[97]

Actor Shia LaBeouf was unimpressed with the film, stating 'We got lost. We tried to get bigger. It's what happens to sequels. It's like, how do you top the first one? You've got to go bigger. 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 relationship. Unless you have those relationships, then the movie doesn't matter. Then it's just a bunch of robots fighting each other.'^[98] Bay has admitted his disappointment with the film and has apologized, saying the film was 'crap' and blaming the 2007–08 Writers' strike, saying 'It was very hard to put (the sequel) together that quickly after the writers' strike (of 2007–08)'.^[99]

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 (2001).^[100] Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times described the film as 'in-your-face, ear-splitting and unrelenting. It's easy to walk away feeling like you've spent 2 hours in the mad, wild, hydraulic embrace of a car compactor'.^[101]

Roger Ebert, who had given the 2007 film three stars,^[102] gave the sequel only one, calling it '..a horrible experience of unbearable length', a phrase which later became the title of his third bad-movie-reviews collection. 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.'^[103] He later wrote on his blog about the film, 'The day will come when Transformers: 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. Of course there will be many more CGI-based action epics, but never again one this bloated, excessive, incomprehensible, long (149 minutes) or expensive ($200 million).'^[104] Ebert would continue to lambast the film (and, sometimes, the Transformers franchise in general) in other movie reviews and responses to letters and emails sent to him. 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'.'^[105] Which he later did name it the 'worst film of the decade'. Other reviewers, while still critical, were less damning of the film, The A.V. Club gave the film a 'C-', complaining about the writing and length, but mentioning the effects and action scenes were impressive.^[106] Among positive reviews, Robbie Collin of News of the World remarked 'It's bigger. Badder. Boobier. And many other words beginning with B, including boneheadedly brilliant.'^[107] Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle called it 'a well-oiled, loudly revving summer action vehicle that does all that's required, and then some',^[108] Jordan Mintzer from Variety said it 'takes the franchise to a vastly superior level of artificial intelligence',^[109] and Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that 'Revenge of the Fallen may be a massive overdose of popcorn greased with motor oil. But it knows how to feed your inner 10-year-old's appetite for destruction.'^[110]

On a year-end poll administered by Moviefone, the film was voted the 'worst film of 2009', and Fox's performance the worst by an actress that year.^[111]Comcast ranked the film as the 4th-worst sequel of all time.^[112]Empire named the film the 25th-worst movie ever made.^[113] In June 2009, David Germain from the Associated Press called the film the 'worst-reviewed $400 million hit ever'.^[114]

There was considerable negative reaction to the characters Mudflap and Skids, who some perceived as embodying racist stereotypes. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times said that 'the characters [..] indicate that minstrelsy remains as much in fashion in Hollywood as when, well, Jar Jar Binks was set loose by George Lucas'.^[115] Critic Scott Mendelson said 'To say that these two are the most astonishingly racist caricatures that I've ever seen in a mainstream motion picture would be an understatement.'^[116]Harry Knowles, founder of Ain't It Cool News, went further, asking his readers 'not to support this film' because 'you'll be taking [your children] to see a film with the lowest forms of humor, stereotypes, and racism around.'^[117] Bay (the director) has attempted to defend the film as 'good clean fun' and insisted that 'We're just putting more personality in.'^[118] Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman responded to the controversy with 'It's really hard for us to sit here and try to justify it. 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. If anything, it just shows you that we don't control every aspect of the movie.'^[119]

Another major complaint about the film was Bay's usage of the IMAX format. 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.^[120]

Box office[edit]

Despite mostly negative reviews from critics, the film was a box office success. Revenge of the Fallen grossed $16 million from midnight showings, at the time the most ever for a Wednesday midnight debut.^[121] The film proceeded to beat Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix's record ($44.2 million) for the biggest Wednesday opening in history,^[122] bringing in $62 million in total receipts on its first day (until The Twilight Saga: Eclipse topped this record with $68.5 million in 2010),^[123] additionally ranking it as the second biggest opening day ever at the time, behind The Dark Knight.^[124] The film grossed $108.9 million on its first weekend, the seventh-largest in history at the time, and brought in $200 million in its first five days, putting it in second place behind The Dark Knight's $203.7 million for the all-time biggest five-day opening.^[125] Its gross from Friday to Sunday was also the biggest June opening weekend for one year, breaking Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban's record ($93.7 million), until Toy Story 3 claimed that record the following year ($110.3 million).^[126]

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, but the actual totals showed Revenge of the Fallen taking the #1 spot yet again with $42.3 million.^[127] Also, it was the first film of 2009 to reach the $300 million mark in North America.^[128] On July 27, a month after its release, the movie reached $379.2 million in the US, which brought it into the top 10 highest-grossing movies ever in that country as of August 2009.^[129]Revenge of the Fallen closed its box office run with $402.1 million in the U.S. & Canada and $836.3 million worldwide, being the thirty-third-highest-grossing film of all time domestically, and the 84th-highest-grossing film of all time.^[130] Among 2009 films, it was the second-highest-grossing in the United States and Canada, behind Avatar,^[131] and fourth globally behind Avatar, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.^[132] As of 2013, the film marks as the second-highest-grossing Hasbro film of all time, behind only its sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 53 million tickets in the US.^[133]

Home media[edit]

The film was released in two-disc Blu-ray and DVD editions, and a single-disc DVD version on October 20, 2009 in North America.^[134] Michael Bay has revealed that the Blu-ray release of the film, produced by Charles de Lauzirika, features variable aspect ratio for the scenes shot in IMAX format. A special IMAX edition was available exclusively at Walmart.^[135]Home versions include over three hours of bonus content and several interactive features, including 'The AllSpark Experiment', which reveals Michael Bay's plans for a third movie in the series. At Target, the DVD and Blu-ray versions includes a transformable Bumblebee case. 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.^[136] First-week sales of the DVD reached 7.5 million copies, making it the best-selling DVD of 2009. The Blu-ray version had the best first-week sales of 2009, with 1.2 million units.^[137]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was released on 4K UHD Blu-ray on December 5, 2017.^[138]

Accolades[edit]

Revenge of the Fallen was among the films shortlisted for the Best Visual Effects at the 82nd Academy Awards,^[139] but was only nominated for Best Sound Mixing (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson), eventually losing to The Hurt Locker.^[140] The film won five Scream Awards, for Best Actress (Megan Fox), Breakout Performance-Female (Isabel Lucas), Best Sequel, Best F/X, and Scream Song of the Year ('New Divide');^[141] and two Teen Choice Awards, for Choice Summer Movie Star: Female (Megan Fox) and Choice Summer Movie Star: Male (Shia LaBeouf).^[142]Revenge of the Fallen was also nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film but lost to Avatar,^[143]Satellite Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound,^[144] a VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture,^[145] a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble,^[146] and an MTV Movie Award for Best WTF Moment (Isabel Lucas turning into a Decepticon).^[147] Shia LaBeouf, the film and Megan Fox was nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Movie Actor, Favorite Movie and Favorite Movie Actress, but all lost to Taylor Lautner, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and Miley Cyrus, respectively.

It was nominated for seven Razzie Awards including Worst Actress for Megan Fox (also for Jennifer's Body), Worst Supporting Actress for Julie White, Worst Screen Couple (for Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox) and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel,^[148] winning three in the Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay categories at the 30th Golden Raspberry Awards.^[149]

Sequels[edit]

The third film, Dark of the Moon was released June 29, 2011. The fourth film, Age of Extinction was released June 27, 2014. The fifth film, The Last Knight was released on June 21, 2017.

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• Locations
• Los Angeles, California;
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
• New Mexico;
• Virginia;
• Arizona;
• Jordan;

• CAST

Bumblebee crying? The Jar Jar Binks ice-cream truck twins? Despite the undoubted spectacle, Michael Bay scuppers the sequel by confusing kid-friendly with infantile.

The portentous prologue set in 17,000BC, revealing the backstory of the human race’s first meeting with ancient Transformers as they scour the universe for sources of energon, is filmed in the familiar Alabama Hills, Central California, against the imposing backdrop of the Sierra Nevada Peaks.

The rock formations, above the town of Lone Pine have been a staple exotic location since the Thirties, regularly providing a stand-in for the likes of the Himalayas in films such as Gunga Din and King Of The Khyber Rifles. Lone Pine not only has a Film History Museum but in October hosts its own annual Film Festival.

Fast forward to present day ‘Shanghai, China’, where Autobots acting in concert with the US military clear up a little problem with a couple of troublesome Decepticons.

Sideways and Demolishor are destroyed but not before issuing the ominous warning that 'The Fallen will rise again'. The skirmish was shot at a mix of two widely separate locations: the old Bethlehem Steel site in Bethlehem, about 60 miles north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Long Beach, south of Los Angeles.

The remains of the Bethlehem Steel works, just south of the city, which closed a few years ago, have been imaginatively redeveloped as SteelStacks, an arts and entertainment district incorporating the plant's five blast furnaces as a dramatic backdrop. SteelStacks currently features ArtsQuest, a performing arts center, the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, and no fewer than three outdoor music venues.

The docks at San Pedro Harbor take over for later shots and you can glimpse the familiar old Southwest Marine building, seen as the ‘San Diego’ dock in Jurassic Park: The Lost World – among many other films.

Still in Los Angeles, Sam is getting ready for college when he comes across a tiny sliver of the mighty AllSpark, as you do, which instantly turns all of the household appliances into mischievous gremlins. The Witwicky house is, once again, 2187 West 24th Street, between South Gramercy Place and Cimarron Street in the West Adams district, still there despite a slight problem with pyrotechnics. A minor fire threatened to become a major panic when the emergency services failed to realise that apparent ‘blast damage’ was part of a movie set.

It’s not referred to by name, but the college Sam attends is clearly intended to be Princeton, New Jersey – as the aerial shot of the Frist Campus Center (which fans of TV’s House will probably recognise as the fictitious ’Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital’) establishes.

In fact, much of the film was made around Philadelphia and most of the college scenes were shot on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania (though both Princeton and Penn University requested that their names were not associated with scenes of Sam’s mom (Julie White) getting stoned on hash brownies).

Sam’s fraternity house, where roommate Leo (Ramon Rodriguez) coincidentally turns out to be running an alien conspiracy website, is Penn’s Psi Upsilon fraternity, known for obvious reasons as ‘The Castle’, at the southwest corner of 36th Street and Locust Walk.

Decepticons are on to the fact that another shard of the AllSpark is being held in the NEST (Non-biological Extraterrestrial Species Treaty, as you probably know) HQ at ‘Diego Garcia’.

There is a real Diego Garcia, a tropical in the central Indian Ocean used as a naval ship and submarine support base, but the facility seen in the film is the Naval Station Point Loma ULF/VLF facility in San Diego. The circular structure you can see in the background of the shot is not a tiny sheep pen, but a sophisticated antenna to communicate with submarines.

The panther-like Decepticon Ravage retrieves the splinter from ‘Diego Garcia’ facilitating the revival of Megatron who’s been rusting away under the sea since the end of the last movie.

In Camaro mode, Bumblebee turns up at Sam’s frat house to transport him to a meeting with Optimus Prime among the extravagant monuments of Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, in the East Falls district overlooking the Schuylkill River. By the way, this is where Rocky visits the grave of his wife Adrian in 2006’s Rocky Balboa. If you don’t believe me, you can see her headstone just south of the main entrance.

Optimus reveals that the bit of AllSpark has been stolen but Sam’s reluctance to become involved soon comes back to haunt him.

Returning to college, he’s attacked by a comely humanoid Decepticon Pretender, leading to a wild chase through the campus – and beyond. The classical pillared exterior of the university library is the Greek-Revival Founder’s Hall which you’ll find on the campus of Girard College, 2101 South College Avenue, a couple of miles northeast of Penn.

Captured by a ’copter, which turns out to be Grindor, Sam and Leo’s car is dumped into a vast industrial space where the naughty creatures intend to get information from Sam by the down-and-dirty method of removing his brain.

The huge, arch-ceilinged facility is Philadelphia’s disused Delaware Power Plant adjacent to Penn Treaty Park on the Delaware River waterfront. Built in 1917 and abandoned since the 1980s, there’s been talk of repurposing, but its future still remains uncertain. It’s the first of several Philly locations previously seen in Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys.

Happily, Sam gets to hang onto his grey matter when the team is rescued at the last minute by Optimus Prime.

From the industrial waterfront, they’re suddenly and inexplicably driving through verdant woods. It’s in this unlikely setting that Optimus is killed and a guilt-ridden Sam finds himself drawn back into the fray.

This woodland is Lincoln National Forest on Mescalero Apache land, east of Alamogordo in New Mexico. Perhaps not the first state that springs to mind when you think of lush forests, but not far from where the ‘Egyptian’ desert scenes were shot. The production was allowed to destroy12 real trees during the battle, in return for planting another 6,000 afterwards.

With the death of Optimus, the Fallen is freed from his captivity and Megatron meets up with minion Starscream atop a ‘New York’ rooftop, decreeing an end to disguises and the full mobilisation of Decepticons.

The establishing shot kind of implies that the roof is that of Manhattan’s Metlife Building, but in fact the distinctive almond-shaped rooftop is that of the Gas Company Tower, 555 West 5th Street, downtown Los Angeles. The Tower is a regularly used location, though it’s the street level entrance you’d probably recognise from films such as Speed and Charlie’s Angels.

The Fallen speaks to the world, demanding the surrender of Sam and, to emphasise the point, Decepticon Mixmaster rips the US flag from the top of the eastern tower of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

The secret location to which Sam and co are spirited away by Bumblebee is Philadelphia’s crumbling but wonderfully photogenic Eastern State Penitentiary, 2027 Fairmount Avenue at 22nd Street.

Radical in its day, the central hub with seven ‘spokes’ radiating outwards, was the brainchild of the Quaker movement, intended as a humane alternative to the crude institutions of the 19th century. Sadly, but all too predictably, the strict regime of solitary confinement served only to drive inmates mad. One who survived was crime boss Al Capone who was incarcerated in a suspiciously luxurious cell for eight months in the 1920s. The Penitentiary is another major location featured in Twelve Monkeys.

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The Fallen gives a demonstration of his power in Paris, where Sam’s parents happen to be vacationing. The attack on the ‘Parisian’ street is actually Chancellor Street in Philadelphia, but the real Place de la Concorde, with its fountain (did you recognise it from The Devil Wears Prada?), is momentarily seen as fireballs streak the sky.

Despite the Eiffel Tower appearing to loom over the scene, the terrace restaurant where the Witwickys are distracted from their delicious snails by one of those pesky whiteface mimes, is the central courtyard of Philadelphia City Hall (yes, another Twelve Monkeys backdrop). And that’s its famous tower crashing to the ground – though without the statue of William Penn, which would have been just a little out of place in the French capital.

Needing outside assistance, Leo reluctantly suggests a call on his online nemesis, RoboWarrior, who resides in Flatbush. The butcher shop in which they find him serving up cuts of meat is not in Brooklyn at all, but in the heart of Philly’s Italian Market on 9th Street – familiar as the neighbourhood of Rocky.

The deli is Cappuccio’s Meats, 1019 South 9th Street at Kimball Street, where the crafty change of name on the wall to ‘Cappuccio and Simmons’ reveals that the mysterious RoboWarrior is one-time Sector 7 Agent Simmons (John Turturro).

When Simmons recognises Sam’s symbols as the language of the Primes, mini-Decepticon-turned-cute-sidekick Wheelie is able to point them in the direction of a Decepticon seeker called Jetfire, apparently residing in the ‘Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’ in DC.

Jetfire is hidden in plain sight as an SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance craft, brought to rather creaky life by the power of the AllSpark. Fortunately, like Wheelie, he’s changed his allegiance and is willing to help.

In fact, the spectacular airplane museum is the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center, the Smithsonian’s annex at Washington Dulles International Airport in the Chantilly area of Fairfax County, Virginia, where you can see the SR-71 on display, along with such famed craft as Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

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After discovering a forest in Philadelphia, the film springs another surprising geographical anomaly when they exit the Smithsonian to find that it’s in the middle of a vast, sun-baked desert.

The aircraft graveyard surrounding the museum, where Sam scrawls Prime symbols on the ground, is the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group on the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona. It’s a vast repository for decommissioned aircraft waiting to be renovated, recycled or dismantled. If you’re an aviation buff and you’ve not had your fill at the Udvar-Hazy Center, the Pima Air and Space Museum, 6000 East Valencia Road, offers bus tours of the Boneyard.

Jetfire explains that the MacGuffin, aka the Matrix of Leadership, is hidden in the Tomb of the Primes. This is located somewhere in Egypt, a country instantly accessible by a space bridge, though movie buffs may want to check the GPS when they recognise the desert dotted with rocky outcrops as Wadi Rum in Jordan, about 20 miles northeast of the Gulf of Aqaba, familiar as the backdrop to much of David Lean’s 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia.

The ‘Egyptian’ town is Salt, northwest of Amman, way to the north and still in Jordan, but they soon end up in the real Egypt, naturally enough at the Pyramids. More properly, this is the Giza Necropolis, a complex of ancient monuments including the three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx as well as several cemeteries, on the Giza Plateau in the southwest outskirts of Cairo. It’s not a long stay as a star formation points them onward toward Petra in – er –Jordan.

The ‘rose red city’ of Petra was famously featured at the climax of Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, but this time it’s not the famous Treasury Building, Al Khazneh (which housed the Knight of the Grail in the Spielberg film), but the Monastery, Al Deir, in which the Tomb of the Primes, is discovered when the scrapping twin Autobots accidentally crack open a wall.

The Monastery (it’s no more a monastery than the more famous site was a treasury, but these name stick) is high above Al Khazneh. It’s about an hour’s uphill trek and quite exhausting but, if you’re fit, it’s worth the effort. Although less elaborately carved than Al Khazneh, Al Deir is built on a much larger scale.

The Matrix of Leadership crumbles in Sam's inexperienced hands but, believing it’s still possible to revive Optimus, he hangs onto the precious dust and asks Major Lennox (Josh Duhamel) to fly out the Prime’s body before heading back to Egypt to find the ‘Sun Harvester’ before the Decepticons can drain our star's energy.

Sam and Mikaela are soon scuttling through the temples of Karnak at Luxor. Despite appearing to be within sprinting distance of the Pyramids, the vast complex, Egypt’s second most visited site, is about 300 miles south of Cairo. Luxor International Airport, gateway to both Karnak and the Valley of the Kings, can be reached from most countries around the world, though it’s most popular for charter flights.

The spectacular monuments and pylons are no stranger to the screen, having previously featured in 1977 Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me and the 1978 Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mystery Death On The Nile.

To accommodate a satisfying amount of destruction, the climactic battle combines not only the real Giza (where the Harvester turns out to be hidden inside the Pyramid of Khafre) and Luxor but a set built at the White Sands Missile Range (which had doubled for ‘Qatar’ in the first Transformers film), southwest of Alamogordo in New Mexico. So relax – no ancient monuments were harmed in the making of this film.