Illogical, but fun with stunning special effects

Rating: 6/10 (23 June 2017)

The wild robot action-adventure directed by Michael Bay first hit the big screen in 2007 and was impressive enough for such a strange premise. When a military base is attacked by a strange weapon, an elite group of soldiers led by Captain Lennox (Josh Duhamel) and Sergeant Epps (Tyrese Gibson) set out into the desert, hunted by the strange robotic being. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) wants to buy a car and win the heart of Mikaela (Megan Fox). The car his father Ron (Kevin Dunn) helps him buy has some strange malfunctions but a super- powered engine. At the Pentagon, an elite group of hackers led by Maggie (Rachael Taylor) tracks the odd signal that searches for something in the Air Force One database.
The data the robots acquire leads them to LadiesMan217, or Sam. The yellow car takes off on its own and Sam pursues it into a junkyard where he sees it stand up and shine a signal into the night sky. Arrested, Sam tries to explain the strange sight to disbelieving officers. Maggie tries to explain to Defense Secretary Keller (Jon Voight) the super fast signal but her explanation of a DNA-based computer is too outrageous. The military squad fights the scorpion transformer and manages to subdue it by calling in an airstrike. Maggie steals the classified code and brings it to the hacker Glen (Anthony Anderson) who deciphers a code right before the FBI bursts in to arrest him.
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