Good start, not so good ending

Rating: 5/10 (3 July 2007)

I've been looking forward to this movie for quite some time now. And since I've kept an interesting eye on the project haven't had too high hopes about it - I've kept it realistic.
Sooo, the start was real good and I got quite excited since it all looked fine (the story, the characters etc). So far so good. But about halfway through the movie those sector 7 dudes showed up and the movie just fell apart! The humour got worse, the story suffered and the characters became awful...
You got some feeling about the Autobots - especially Prime and Bumblebee (and to some extent Jazz and Ironhide), while Ratched was rather anonymous throughout the whole movie. You got some sense of how they were as characters (with the exception of Ratched). Actually, the HUMANS get most of the screeningtime! So we get to know Sam and whats-her-name pretty well (though it's only Sam that get any depth). She's just there as a pretty face (and WHAT a pretty face!). You could easily have dropt the hackers sidestory (it did NOT add anything what so ever importence to the plot) and cut back the military dudes time.
The evil guys were just that - evil. The decepticons remained VERY anonymous the whole movie! Megatron got a little bit of character, but just as the usual badguy that wanted to destroy everything - not very deep at all. Most of the decepticons were there for just one thing (I think you can guess for what) and had NO character development whatsoever... meh! So, summery: good beginning with some awesome action scenes, and the middle and ending... not so good... Not even the action scenes were that good! just lots of explosions... Although both megatron and starscream had some pretty cool scenes! And Prime remained a puss... a wuss and got beat up by megatron in every fight... meh...