Almost infantile enough to be for a u14 only audience

Rating: 5/10 (18 July 2007)

Yes, the action scenes are impressive. Yes, the CGI work is impressive. But apart from that... well, there were a few amusingly awkward, teen-angst moments as Shia Leboeuf and his ironic Camaro tried to get Mr Leboeuf to hook up with the bad-girl hottie (played by Megan Fox).
The whole affair seems overly long, and at 144 minutes it undoubtedly is. How this film took three whole people to come up with the story is baffling.
The acting as a whole is wooden. Except when the robots start talking, then it it gets past wooden. (What is a word for worse than wooden but with a healthy dose of puerile?).
But let's face it the action is what this movie is about - and the cars are the stars.
A highlight? If I'm forced to pick one, it would be the Bernie Mac cameo.
A lowlight? If I'm forced to pick ONLY one, it would have to be John Turturro's out of place turn as the goof-ball secret spy. He was the only one not playing it straight.
We really should not expect much from a Michael Bay (Bad Boys, Bad Boys 2) directed film apart from explosions and car chases. On this showing, he really is nothing more than an average music video director with delusions of grandeur.