I walked in to this moving hoping for some serious scifi... boy was I misled!

Rating: 5/10 (26 September 2007)

I walked into this moving thinking (hoping) it was a "serious" sci-fi movie, kind of like Independence Day. Sure have comical characters but the flick having a dark undertone. It starts off this way, showing lots of human death, but the unrealistic and comical characters of the Defense Secretary (Jon Voight) and Agent Simmons (Turturro) throws all this out the window.
Pros: good effects for the most part, good action.
Cons:

although the CG was good for the most part, there were some scenes when the CG guys seemed to have decided they just couldn't be bothered to get the lighting/shadows/focus of the subjects done correctly - some of the CG scenes were poorly done in comparison to others. - since when does the Defense Secretary run around shooting guns with a bunch of high school kids? Isn't the defense secretary usually considered a military VIP?? - since when does a military captain get to call the shots on what the entire military does? He orders in all sorts of things throughout the film without ever having to get an OK from anybody, and talks to the defence secretary like they're cop partners. - what happened to the rest of the army!? It was basically Josh, Tyrese, and Voight representing the military the whole movie. - THE TRANSFORMERS. In the cartoons/figures they were made up of maybe a dozen or so large solid moving parts. In the movie they're made up of, I don't know, say a HUNDRED THOUSAND parts all of which being no bigger than a Rubiks Cube. They were such a huge collection of such small parts there doesn't seem any way their overall structure could have ANY kind of strength. Being made up of such a massive amount of tiny parts they look like they'd just fall apart, and have pieces falling off them all the time. - THE TRANSFORMERS: Some times it takes then a full 5 seconds for their thousands upon thousands of parts to move around during transformation, but in another scene they do it in the blink of any eye! Then in yet another scene they start changing, and the changing goes on.. and on.. and on... and on.... - How convenient the downtown core was completely void of people within half a minute for them to have their battle in. - just too much junk on the screen at once during many of the fight scenes.

All in all, it's a movie that teases you as a serious sci-fi flick, but ends up being a movie made up of comical characters, possessing little realism, and is best suited for an audience 13 and under if it wasn't for the masturbation references and large amount of human death and violence.