Michael Bay,King of the Day

Rating: 8/10 (28 June 2007)

After giving us The Rock,Armageddon,Bad Boys I & II and The Island,Michael Bay surprises again with his latest "artwork" Transformers.
Let's face it,Bay is an action director.
His movies cannot be compared to masterpieces like the Godfather,but only to other action movies.
And believe me,he is effectively good in creating action movies. He has proved that nobody makes them as good and thrilling as him.
So,who cares if the movie is not faithful to the 80s cartoon?
No movie is 100% faithful to its source.That is a fact.
Within 2+ hours,Bay manages to leave us stunned and breathless as we watch the amazing effort he put to create this movie.
The CGI,like always,is at its best,much like the action sequences. The Autobots and the Decepticons finally come to life in this movie and they are realistic enough,given the genre of the movie.
The cast is great,with shining performances from Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox in the main roles.
Also,if you watch many movies(hard not to,this is IMDb!)you will recognize many actors in the supporting cast. Perhaps its the first time Bay utilizes such a big cast.
Now,any mature viewer,who is willing to pay the ticket fee,surely knows that beneath the big,flashy explosions,beneath the fast car races and the big robot battles,Transformers is another unreal,all-American,action blockbuster. There really is no need to criticize this movie.
For what it is,it succeeds.
I had doubts when I first saw that Michael Bay was going to direct this movie.I thought it would have been another animation/3D movie like many others.
What Bay gave me,pleasantly enough,was much much more.
So,my final advice would be:
Forget All the Physics you Learned at School,
Forget What You Know,
Forget Who You Are,
Go,see this movie and be Trans-formed!