Less than meets the eye

Rating: 1/10 (31 July 2019)

Warning: this is a review written by a grudgy, nearly 40-year old who grew up with Transformers in the 1980's.
The 2007 original is the first and last movie I watched from the infamous "Bayformers" series. I went to the theatre with enthusiasm, finally a live-action Transformers movie! Thought that, with modern CGI, it would have been plain simple to render our beloved Cybertronian heroes and villains on screen. Huge dispappointment when I saw that all robots had been turned into incomprehensible walking masses of metal junk. The Decepticons especially had nothing at all of the characters from the cartoon and comics. At least, the Autobots had the names of the historical characters, while the 'cons were completely invented out of the blue, save for Megatron and Starscream.
The worst part about this movie, and all its disgraceful sequels, is that the main characters are not the Transformers themselves, but their human allies! US soldiers blowing up Decepticons with human military weapons!? Excuse me!? The leading topic of the whole Transformers franchise always was that Cybertronians are so advanced and powerful that humans are helpless again them. Only the Autobots can stop the Decepticons, we all know that. One of the most memorable episodes of the 1980's cartoons shows the whole Decepticon air squad obliterating US aviation. "Even Earth's best pilots can't anything against us", said Megatron after the memorable sequence. Who needs the Autobot if a single marine soldier can destroy a Decepticon by shootig a rocket launcher in his "balls"?
Enough said. It's now 2019, and fortunately the Bayformers franchise came to an end. Hopefully, if a reboot will be done in the next decade, it will be with good ol' 1980's characters for us old men.