a typical Michael Bay movie

Rating: 4/10 (20 July 2007)

Too much action and not enough character or story development. Michael Bay seems to think that if he shoots impressive action sequences (like he did in Pearl Harbour for example) then he thinks the movie will work. But it doesn't. Typically, his movies begin with people trying to connect sexually-there is always some reference to that (this is almost traditional - see Armageddon and Pearl Harbour). I can tell that almost every Michael Bay movie will have some sort of love/romance in the beginning. OK, it is a big part of life but the way Michael Bay presents it is so typically Hollywoodish and unoriginal. I don't like the way filmmakers throw romance in every movie nowadays. It seems they feel like they have to include romance as if it is an obligation. That's why, it feels completely unnatural and unconvincing. Same comments apply to the humor in the movie (so cliché and predictable). I haven't seen the Transformers cartoon or read the comic book so I cannot comment on that but this movie seemed to me unoriginal and poorly constructed piece of cinema without any real value except for visual effects, which is why I gave 4 out of 10.