Started out strong....then quickly fizzled

Rating: 6/10 (18 October 2007)

Very promising start to a dull movie. I got the feeling within the first 30 minutes I was watching some kind of Terminator 2 ripoff but with car robots instead of cyborgs. The similarities were completely obvious. But that was during the promising set up stage to this way too long flick. Then Mr. Bay must have taken some cues from the older George Lucas (yeh the older one being the guy who thought Jar-Jar and Darth Maul were cool) because out of nowhere some kick-azz bad guy robots developed annoying personalities and speech mannerisms...i.e the infiltrator bots suddenly had to whine and cry when they got hit and generally just become annoying. Period. From that point on the film looses interest and becomes a CGI palm fest. OK we get it... you can make really cool CGI.... can you have a somewhat non-annoying script to watch while you are at it? Does the lead lady always have to have her makeup perfect? Did Tyrese need to be in this film? Do the robots really not shake the ground significantly enough jumping around that we can't notice any vibrations? Can the good guy robots only drive (really slow to for some reason) while the bad guys can fly at will? Please. Can you promote Burger King any more? 60+ years of studying Megatron and landing on the moon is the best we got? Can we scrap Transbeaters 2 and pump that 300 mil into something we might want to watch more than 30 mins of? My suggestion: Watch the first 30 mins then turn it off and get the ending from a good friend. Save 2 hrs of your life and watch T2 instead. Over & out.