Micheal Bay's TRANSFORMERS quite often slips away from the spirit of the series

Rating: 5/10 (8 September 2007)

If you are a person who likes great paced roaring action adventures with a delightful twitch, watch THE TERMINATOR. A movie like this is like what I just mentioned. These are the elements Micheal Bay's TRANSFORMERS tried to desperately achieve. Let us just assumer Bay was a great director. Wait, lets think twice.
The main character of Kyle played by budding actor Shia LaBeouf has he discovers his car which goes haywire and ends up to be a transformer. Halfway across the world in the deserts of Iraq, an American fighter and his crew are being terrorized by these monstrous robots. We then see reasonably well-done graphics pacing with the action as government officials try to track and stop this invasion.
Transformers comes under the category of science fiction. It is quite possibly the most demanding genre to work on. Firstly, if it based on previous television series, comic books etc., fans want to feel the excitement and pace of what they've seen and read brought to life on the screen. Apparently, Bay isn't aware of this phenomenon. He throws in extreme graphics and choreographed camera movements to match the extreme graphics. Although the movie is a Spielberg orientation, it drifts away from the TRANSFORMERS everyone read. I was not impressed by what I saw in the theater. A Spielberg direction would have changed everything into a stellar great-one.