BECAUSE I BELIEVE

DISCLAIMER: If you've not watched Transformers 2 yet, and is intending to catch it, please DON'T read on!


Yesterday afternoon, the whole batch of us caught Transformers 2 at Tampines Mall. It was so disparagingly sad when Optimus Prime DIED! What makes it worse is that - believing the area to be cleared of enemies - he was calling out to Sam ("Sam, where are you?") when he was caught unaware and got stabbed from behind by a sneaky Megatron. OH MAN!



Anyway, I find the movie a little too rushed and action-packed for my liking. For one, I still don't understand why and how Jetfire (the ancient Decepticon who teleported them to Egypt) defect over to the Autobots. Neither do I understand what the AllSpark (the little piece of metal which caused mayhem in Sam's house) is for, how it managed to affect Sam's brain, and what happened to it in the end.

I also thought it's cute; the way Bumblebee cries when told of the news that he would not be accompanying Sam to college. Oh man, I've never thought that the day would come when I would think of robots as "cute".

And, oh yeah, Alice! The Decepticon Pretender who is actually a robot in human disguise. I thought it looks ugly and animalistic; the view of a super-long metallic tongue emerging from a woman's mouth and wrapping around the victim's neck. It's hilariously funny too, how the victim screamed in fanatic horror, "THE TONGUE! THE TONGUE!", while trying to escape from the tongue's tight grasp.



One of the highlights in the movie that I personally find really COOL is the part when the gang managed to locate the Matrix of Leadership. Believing that the Matrix would be able to resurrect Optimus Prime, Sam got the Major to airlift Optimus Prime into Egypt. The Matrix, however, crumbled to dust in Sam's hands (it was kept underground for too long, apparently).

The whole situation seems totally desperate; and the whole idea seems almost impossible; too far-fetched. Airlifting a massive (dead) robot all the way to Egypt. A powerful army of Decepticons hot on their tail. The crumbled Matrix. Everybody's lives on the thread. The only hope: Optimus Prime. The chances of resurrecting him? Practically zero.

Everyone was rendered speechless and utterly discouraged when the Matrix crumbled into dust. Sam, though, refused to give up. "Look! Look around! Look and search! There must be something here. There must be something in here that is able to help us. After all the efforts made, it can't be that we're here for NOTHING! It can't be WASTED! There must be a reason why we're here. There must be something in here! There must be a REASON!"

WOW!



Sam stooped down and began scooping up the Matrix dust into a pouch. Mikaela looked at him and asked, "Sam, would it work?

How do you know it would work?"



Sam stopped whatever he was doing. His eyes - clouded with a mixture of uncertainly and determination (or so it seems to me) - found hers. How is it going to work? There are no concrete plans now. The Matrix is gone. What on earth can he do with a useless bunch of dust? Sprinkle them over Optimus Prime's chest? Blow them over his face?

He paused momentarily for a split second, before making a mental decision and replying in quiet conviction:









"BECAUSE I BELIEVE".









WOW, WOW, WOW!



There are some other parts of the plot which I find particularly meaningful as well, though I can't really recall what are they now.

Other more memorial parts of the plot, I guess, is when Optimus Prime went to look for Sam at his college, requesting his help (for something which I can't remember), only to get rejected. OP expressed his disappointment, but yet respected his decision, saying, "Freedom is the right of all beings".

Another part which I remember well is the part when Sam died, only to - in a dreamlike state - find himself in the presence of the other Primes, who said something to the effect of, "The Matrix is not found, it is earned. And you've proven yourself". They then instructed Sam to resurrect Optimus Prime with the Matrix; for only OP can defeat the Fallen. With that, Sam "woke up" and came back to life, and found the now newly-formed (no longer speckles of dust!) Matrix lying by his side. WOW!



Anyway, the ending is: Optimus Prime came back to life. The Fallen is killed. Megatron is heavily wounded and forced to retreat. Sam and Mikaela didn't get married (no lovey-dovey fairy-tale ending here). And as usual, the movie predictably ends with OP saying the usual bombastic things to the effect of, "Human and robots are connected by their histories".



P.S. Megan Fox is utterly HOT! Perhaps I should start decking myself in short shorts and midriffs or something!