just another typical American idea of action movie

Rating: 3/10 (6 October 2007)

OK, for start I haven’t expected too much from this movie. I’ve watched cartoons regularly when I was a kid , liked them. When I heard that movie is coming to theatres I wanted to take mine little cousin to watch it. Dear god. Although cinema was pretty OK, comfortable chairs, those 2 hours turn out to real torture. After hour and a half I even felt sleepy, but I couldn't’t sleep cause of all that noise and flashes. After couple days have passed I can shortly describe it as Boring and dull movie with American sense for humor.
Plot: The movie has quite OK base idea. That’s for a simple entertaining movie it’s OK. Typical teenage-catastrophically happy end movie. They could make it much better by dropping those jokes ?!? and perhaps make it less obvious. And its details and side stories that have made quite mess of movie, but of course well known American sense for humor doesn’t help.
Acting: Hmm, it was strange that they haven’t take some famous actor to take some side role, or give voice to bots. Acting was average. I can’t even remember any bright moment from some actor. Actors who gave voices to bots were average too, but there’s the problem with high distortions made to voices to look more like human. At least they could give deeper and stronger voice to Optimus Prime.
FX: Well, this is all that movie is about. Effects of transforming is pretty rapid, hard to follow, but OK, they are highly advanced robots  Even though this is FX movie, there is way too much of it.
Directing: The worst one I have ever seen from Michael Bay. And I believe that there are hundreds of directors who could make this movie much better. I have no idea who is target group for this movie. It goes from kindergarten kids, through teenagers with a slight attempt to communicate with older SF fans. This aiming is done pretty poorly and they have missed a lot. During whole movie audience is blinded with FX. It’s hard to even follow base idea with all those FX. It would be nice to measure what part of time is spent on special effects and what on so called acting. So many battles, which are not even continuous, final battle in city is rubbish. I wonder if they even make battle plan on map or some model. It looks so uncoordinated.
I believe May tried to make movie dynamic with all those FX, but it failed a lot. I’ve gave it 3* cause of effects  and effort. I haven’t seen anything else in this movie.