Visually stunning, but with no plot, its nothing

Rating: 4/10 (8 January 2008)

This critically acclaimed fantasy action film from director Michael Bay brings special graphics to a new level with visually stunning scenes involving transforming robots who have arrived on earth in order to settle a dispute. It's the Autobots and Decepticons who have crash-landed and are here to fight for what is theirs.
Unfortunately as good and as impressive as the graphics are, the 2007 summer hit fails to capitalise on its effects with a thin plot and exceptionally poor dialogue. Shia LaBeouf (Even Stevens) gives an average performance as the geeky teenager who wants to impress the attractive Megan Fox, but both are soon wrapped up in the robot war.
It's a film which dollops a heavy amount of information about another world on top of you with no depth and feeling to it. Jokes are predictable and the Autobots can be very childish and annoying at frequent points. The ending is ridiculous as its one of those lets all unite and fight and save the day scenarios.
The film however gets to an interesting start with mystery and a new look on the Sci-Fi genre with the robots coming from another planet and all that but like so many other films these days, focuses too much upon the graphics and not enough depth to the plot to make it a poor and predictable fantasy action film.