Don't Let The Name Fool You *spoilers*

Rating: 2/10 (20 July 2007)

First of all, the movie has multitudes of continuity errors and sloppy story writing. I expected a lot from this film with the budget they had, but unfortunately, it turned out to be another Godzilla 1998. Much like Godzilla, there's little focus on the main characters, being the robots themselves, and more on the US military and a sexual endeavor that carries throughout the film making you wonder why they didn't just call the movie Sex Pistols.
Probably to suit the outcome of being destroyed by lowly humans, the robots were designed to be extremely weak. Most of the Decepticons are dispatched by the military quite easily, bringing into question as to why the Autobots need to "protect" anything for that matter. Heck, they should've just went wild and started destroying everything. Though the property damage they've caused saving the world alone might be enough.
The absence of character development for the robots is prominent. Most of them come out of nowhere near the end of the movie and some have absolutely no dialog whatsoever. Bay failed to see any reason to develop their personalities. One of the dozens of continuity errors is that some of the Decepticons just vanish into thin air during the freeway chase. The Autobots and the military are supposed to protect sentient life, bringing into question as to why they brought the final battle into a civilian population for no reason at all. Also, the whole point of the Transformers arrival on Earth is to look for a device called the All Spark. In a few scenes, two Decepticons (Starscream and Blackout) are in reach of the human character who has the device, but in each instance, they transform and leave instead of killing and relieving him of it.
Of course, the generic story about the guy getting the girl surfaces at the finale. Both Bay and the writers failed miserably to depict the heart of the Transformers, and made it into a film about anything but. Hopefully, Hasbro will take the franchise to a more capable movie studio other than Paramount and their terrible sci-fi writers, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Is it any wonder why the Star Trek movies have gone to shame?
In the end, don't expect to see the Transformers you've grown to love, because they don't live here.