good looking, but not much underneath

Rating: 6/10 (23 August 2007)

After seeing the trailer for this film, i must say i was very much looking forward to seeing it in the cinema. It looked like a fun, quick-paced film filled with hard-to-keep-up-with cgi sequences, which it has a lot of.
Straight after seeing it, i really liked it, but after further thought i've decided that its a bit of a 'nothing' film. The plot isn't that great with the most part of the action happening in the last 15 minutes and before that its mainly the story of some big alien robots looking for a pair of old broken glasses. Shia LeBouf and Emma Fox make decent attempts with characters that don't really go anywhere and the sub-plots put in, i feel, were only there for the sake of trying to make them more interesting.
So, overall i think that Transformers is fun to watch for the action and explosions and impressive looking cgi sequences, but other that that it's not got much good things to say about it.