What did I just see.

Rating: 5/10 (27 June 2014)

Sitting in this movie I kept thinking "its going to get better, it must get better!" but I was so wrong. I was surprised to see a lot of over saturated/structured cgi shots but that's not what I'd call BAD. What was bad first of all was not one character was likable in the whole movie. Not Mark Wahlberg, not the Irish dude, not even Optimus prime! Take Mark Wahlberg's character for instance, he was a over-protective crappy inventor who was not able to provide for his family. The whole movie sets you up to think he is going to invent something good(think Hugh Jackman in Real Steel) but nope. Not one good invention. He's just a moody guy who's mad because he finds out his daughter has a boyfriend and you get to hear him whine about it the rest of the movie. Not a good Wahlberg role. The autobots were also annoying they seemed kind of like spoiled kids. Doing whatever they wanted and when faced with danger they ran away with their tails between their legs. Now for the comic relief. It was annoying in most cases. Each character pretty much took part in what I call "dumb comedy" where the character says something really dumb that turns out being funny. That works most of the time but when every character is doing it whether it's in their character profile or not, it ruins anything they had going for them. Most of this comedy was so frequent and redundant that it became annoying very quickly. And then we have the script. Good gosh, EVERY line was so bad it was laughable. I was seriously shaking my head for almost the entire film which was close to 3 hours by the way. That's a long time to sit in one place for even a good movie. Needless to say I was glad when it ended. I was so surprised to hear people clapping when the movie came to an end but the smidgen of hope for humanity in me would like to think they were clapping because it finally ended rather than showing their approval for the movie. As soon as it ended I had to look up the director and writer and I was surprised to see that they have done some decent movies previously. I don't know what happened with this one but I haven't heard a script this bad since The Host (2013) and before that probably The Last Airbender (2010). Redeeming qualities? I doubt there are any. Maybe some cool sound effects and 1 or 2 jokes that were actually funny but even then I felt embarrassed to laugh.
At the end of the day, all of this has given me more respect for Shia LaBeouf because the last transformers movie with the same crew was 10 times better than this one.