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First off, (I know I haven't posted anything since I joined, sort of forgot about it) say hi. Now that is out of the way, here is my jumbled, short review of this film.
Note: Copy and paste from another forum that I am a member, don't want to bother with re-typing everything.
Note 2: A small spoiler, nothing huge.
I saw it today and it was mediocre to average at best. I didn't like Armageddon when I saw it for a second time when I was older to understand it. And now Michael Bay has pulled out another action filled, plot lacking film.
The CGI was spectacular on the autobots and decepticons. It was very impressive when the Tranformers transformed, wonder how they rendered each frame to do that. The voice acting was good enough so that you can actually hear what they were saying but I couldn't exactly tell if the voices were from the same person or not. With the exception of BumbleBee. The movements from the Transformers I thought was well done, very fluid.
Acting was ok from the humans. I like the humor brought on by Shia LaBeouf. It wasn't astoundingly funny but was good enough for some laughs. I don't recall Megan Fox actually doing anything in the movie, I thought she should have done more in her role. Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson didn't do much either. A lot of running, screaming, cut-off swearing, and of course, shooting. Anthony Anderson presents in the movie sort of saved it from a really bad movie, thanks to his strange but very funny acting. It reminded me of Live Free or Die Hard because he was a hacker and large flat screens were around the film in Sector 7. Dialogue was cheesy, especially when they said the tag lines of transformers "More than meets the eye". A line that sort of threw me off was when Rachael Taylor mentioned Quantum mechanics and DNA computing, which is actually being researched right now in the real world. The producers actually did some research for that, in my view at least.
The actiony movie parts were good at first, but got cheesy and almost annoying for me at some points, especially when they did the missile dodging, and obvious matrix-style thing that is overused, beat up, eaten-up, and spat out in terrible, boring forms. (God, you have love Bay's emphasis and huge focus on action) Fighting scenes were ok, nothing mind blowing. Explosions were everywhere, the weird camera angles, shots, focusing were also not great. I didn't get why the camera had to focus on the bike Shia was riding on when it skid. Stupid. There was a lot of cheesy moments that were really lame. At one point, some of these "probe decepticon" thingys got an orgasm from hacking into the military defense computers. I just thought that was strange. I was expecting some martial art type fighting but all I got was the stuff something out from the real crappy cartoons. Fly around, hop around, and then shoot each other with gigantic guns and cannons.
A lot of advertisements in the film, very annoying. Apple and GMC were the most prominent. Films just have to stop doing this, it just takes away from the film, its like just one elongated commercial. It was just spam in my face.
All in all, I had small expectations for this film and after watching barely made them. With the sequel having the greenlight, I want Michael bay not to make it. All action zero to little plot/story/content/logic/meat for any film. Take pearl harber for example, it was just terrible. Kids will love it to death and beyond, older generations will take a very critical take on the film, during and after.
5-5.5/10 Don't screw up the next one.
Oh and, I want my $8.75 back.
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