Comparing Transformers 4 And Passion Of The Christ

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Submitted by: Sujeevan Nesarajah

Submitted for: CUL485YB In this critical review analysis I will be using the following films in order to review and discuss the critical analysis perspectives. The films are: Transformers 4 and Passion of the Christ. I will begin with Passion of the Christ and then proceed onwards to Transformers 4. The following critics work will be used: Roger Ebert, Glenn Kenny Part 2: Roger Ebert review Passion of the Christ (Film) In Roger Ebert’s critic he quotes “If ever there was a film with the correct title, ….The Passion of the Christ” a). This makes the audience think that this is a great film, but no, he then gives the Latin meaning of Passion “suffering
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On the other hand, I don’t agree with him at all on how the movie is like a two-hour-and-forty minute toy commercial cause for his age or expectation the film must seem like it’s for kids. Nevertheless, all the hard work the team would have put together to make the film was shown astoundingly well in my perspective. It’s something you don’t get to see in any other film. The film Transformer is where alien-robots-truck-thingies having saved the world destroys Chicago in the process, and the U.S. government raises against these autobot. Meanwhile, Optimus Prime the leader of the transformers gets wounded and loses its strength and transforms as a truck. “Afterwards, there’s Mark Wahlberg’s hapless Texas inventor/handyman, a widower” also a very protective dad “with an extremely attractive teenage daughter”b) ends up buying Optimus unknowingly (cause it was in a truck form) and revives the autobot. They become buddies at war together to save plant earth. Then, on the other hand, there’s a high-tech company uses the metals of these destroyed robots to make the robotic cars and cause the metals from the robots are transformable they need more metals, so they try to get the seed in order to make the future a better place with these convertible

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