Michael Bay crashes... again.

Rating: 3/10 (29 July 2007)

I very rarely comment on a film but I feel compelled to comment on this one. I am not a Transformers fan of the original series. I'm not going to write a long comment about how it is not like the series. This film has to be one of the most poorly constructed and disjointed films I have seen in a while. The problems with this film begins and ends with Michael Bay. The spinning crane and staid-cam shots which he constantly employs, in slow motion, completely distract from the story. The constant use of loud dramatic music, music that sounds identical to that in Pearl Harbor and Bad Boys II, is also overdone and inappropriate. I found that there were many plot holes, that interesting characters were never used effectively, that characters seemed to suddenly do things without reason, that monologues were used instead of action to tell the story.
I gave this film 3 stars because of the CG employed. This was the one area of the film that was outstanding. The transition from live film to CG was almost flawless. It seems that this was the main focus of the film making process and it is a pity that the rest of the story suffers as a result. With a better script and a different director this could have been a really amazing film.