That was one expensive bore fest

Rating: 2/10 (11 November 2007)

I couldn't even make it through this movie. It has wonderful effects, is very visually intense, I have little doubt in a good theater sound environment it would melt your brain from the overload of stimulation. Myself, I watched it on the small screen, and I was bored to tears.
The characters are all thin, poorly developed and generally uninteresting. The plot barely keeps its head above the clumsy pile of bad comedy relief, teen angst and Mtv-style geek sexuality. The robots are impressive, though soulless. Michael Bay continues to show outside of blowing things up, he's not worth much. It makes for a loud roller-coaster ride of special effects and explosions, but it sorely lacking in story, character development, plot development or anything else remotely interesting.
When the two most compelling elements of your movie are a chattering boom-box and a fake- tanned hard-body, you haven't got much to fill the drawn out dimensions this beast took up. I gave it an hour and a half. Beyond that, I couldn't even bring myself to follow along.