More then meets the eye, indeed.

Rating: 10/10 (7 July 2007)

OK...I just walked out of the theater and I'm still jumpy. This is most likely the best Summer movie of 2007, and perhaps one of the biggest of the year. Last week I saw Die Hard 4.0, which was an awesome action movie, but this one takes another step further. I mean, who could have imagined a movie about robots that transform into common objects would overshadow most of this year's major superhero movies? The movie tells the story of a war between two robot clans, the Autobots and the Decepticons, the movie kicks off with the Decepticons beginning their first assault on Earth by attacking a US military base in the middle-east, as they appear they are looking for something, on a typical US town, a young teenager(Shia LeBouf) buys a car who appears to be a robot in disguise and this will push into a middle of a war between these two races, all this while the military try to piece together what just hit them. First of all, I must say one thing: ILM did this? For a second there, people were ranting how this company was getting upstaged by it's competition, because, special effects-wise, this movie makes most pre-2005 movies look like cartoons and it's perhaps the most intense action movie, and pretty nifty dialog. And something refreshing for a change: seeing US soldiers as compassionate, fearless and unwilling to back down from a fight even if it's an over-sized robot who can kill them easily. I honestly don't know how to descibre this movie of how an overwhelming experience that it was, I just have one or two minor complaints. As I suspected before, the movie doesn't focus as much on the robots at least, not up until a certain point as the young teenager and his girlfriend play the most vital role in the movie, but to my surprise it's wasn't bad, but as a result we don't get to bound as much with the Autobots, but one scene in particular when all of them transform with Sam and Mikaela watching was amazing, but sadly said robots didn't manage to bond as much as I wanted. But still most of the awe is watching for the first time giants robots, the feeling was very much like watching dinosaurs for the first time in Jurassic Park way back in 1993, but still a little more screen time would've helped. I was kinda annoyed that Optimus Prime spend most of the movie without his face armor, but he sure does look cool when he uses it. Finally, I probably shouldn't make a big fuss about it, but we have brave US soldiers and a secretary of Defense that mixes the best of Colin Powell and Winston Churcill, so why does the President sounds like an idiot on Air Force asking for candy, wearing red socks? While it doesn't spoil the enjoyment, you gotta wonder why does a president sound like a goof while everybody else doesn't act like it?
Anyhoo... Go see this movie, that's all I gotta say.