Some good action scenes and sets, terrible script and characters

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2008)

When I first saw the very secretive teaser that aired before Transformers in theaters I was pretty interested. But a few months later when I saw the actual trailer I was disappointed to discover that the whole movie would be filmed with a hand-held with shaky cinematography. I hadn't planned on watching this but a couple of my friends went so I tagged along. Right away I could tell I was not going to like the characters, for a film trying to be so real it had some very unnatural dialog and bad acting. The 10 or 15 minutes which attempted to create some characters was very boring and intolerable and I found myself wishing the monster would hurry up and kill somebody. When the action started I was impressed with the sets and special effects in the movie, it created some intense moments. But overall I don't think this movie lived up to its massive hype.