Not much more than meets the eye

Rating: 8/10 (6 July 2007)

The most horrendous part of the movie is its sad excuse of a story. The story is simple and even with the addition of Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and Mikaela Banes' (Megan Fox) teenage love tangent, it still remained painstakingly barbaric. A quick synopsis would be: Robots are fighting over an omnipotent cube, one side must destroy it, the other wants to use it for evil. Oh and by the way all of mankind will be destroyed if the bad guys get it. The End. You won't get much more out of the plot. D-.
The acting in this movie was above mediocre, yet below excellent. Shia LaBeouf, The military guys, and his father were excellent, as for the rest of the characters (mainly Mikaela and the Sector Seven people) -- not so much.
It's hard to say exactly whether the directing was good or not because most of the people being directed are probably CG animators. Some more moving or artistic camera angles would have been a nice touch rather than bland and typical action shots.
Even in the visual department, the movie failed to deliver any moving, or artistic camera angles and instead focused on morphing cars and hardly distinguishable battles between Power-Ranger-esquire battling robots. This is probably the best reason to watch this movie.
Over all, Transformers is a mainly a movie targeted at people who love to see fighting, broken metal, and bullets. In my opinion, there really isn't much more than meets the eye in this movie.