Lame

Rating: 2/10 (22 July 2007)

The only reason this nonsense didn't get a 1 was due to Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas). He was the only highlight for me. The rest of the cast was made of shallow, uninteresting people. Not that I expected more from an action flick but just saying. Jon Voight and John Turturro are two fine actors who are wasted in this film. This movie tried so hard to elicit laughs in between the action and failed miserably each time. Anthony Anderson was just not funny. The interrogation scene with the donuts was like a bad sitcom where you could see the punch line a mile away. The blonde Australian girl who outsmarted national security was just ridiculous. As for the action, it was hard to keep track of which machine was which. Just hunks of metal tearing each other apart. The cartoon had much better fighting scenes more than 20 years ago! Pathetic. Also Optimus Prime was a heck of a lot stronger in the cartoon than in the movie. He was at least Megatron's match. In the movie, he clearly had inferior strength. I can't even recommend this for children since they had to throw that ill advised bit of dialog in when the parents entering their son's room.