The Best Sci Fi in 10 years

Rating: 9/10 (5 July 2007)

Without a doubt the best Sci Fi in the last 10 years. I case your wondering, I have thought about the Star Wars Prequels and War of the Worlds. Honestly, this beats them both.
For starters it breaks away from this standard of making fictional, comic book-like colorful character from being too psychological. The director is basically saying, forget these standards, I'm making a movie about non-human characters, the best way to make this movie is by creating a fun movie about robots smashing each other. He keeps the plot simply and straight-to-the point, as it should be.
The screen-play kept you hooked. It presents such daily issued that almost anybody can relate with and merges it the transformers movie. We have the military and leadership perspective, the scientific perspective and the regular people perspective that is balance to the point of keeping our adrenaline pumping and have several laughs along the way. This is a breather from the all too serious Star Wars and, to mention Comic Book, Spiderman. Especially with Star Wars, you felt like it was a soap opera. Transformers is very true to the human reactions to the events; people running away, military and intelligence people trying to figure out was is wrong. Or even before the fighting starts, we say regular people living their regular lives and acting according to their backgrounds. Granted, the humor placed on it is a bit exaggerated, but no more exaggerated than the negative human reactions in Star Wars, which were way over the top.
What prevented it from being a perfect movie was that it over extended its "increasing conflict" and the lack of more action scene. Adding a few more robots, starting the battles quicker and extending them a bit would have made it truly exceptional. My advise to Michael Bay on this is not to be shy to make bigger Sci Fi movies. He has what it takes to make the big and great.