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Returning as the Fut 14 Coins now-disgraced Fifa 14 ultimate team Coins federal Agent Simmons, John Turturro gets laughs as a beady-eyed obsessive. Even the serious military dudes, again played by Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson, get in on the fun when they give an obnoxious Defence Department bureaucrat his comeuppance.

Jumping back and forth between human comedy and CGI-generated tragedy, Revenge of the Fallen tracks the action through ocean canyons, Pennsylvania forests, Washington DCs Smithsonian Institution and the Egyptian desert with so much jittery intensity that robot fatigue sets in halfway through the films lengthy, third-act smackdown between the two factions of shape-shifting robots.

By then, helicopters, fighter jets and panther-shaped robots take precedence over La Beouf and his exceptionally photogenic co-star Fox. Too tiny to cause much damage to the massive Devastator and his fellow killer ‘bots, the humans do an awful lot of running as the mechanized warriors smash each other to bits.

As he did in the first Transformers movie, Optimus Prime voiced by Peter Cullen gets the last word amid the wreckage, as Revenge of the Fallens most soulful character voices the hope that man and machine can co-exist.