Astoundingly BAD film making - how much did they spend on this?

Rating: 1/10 (18 July 2008)

It would take me as long as the running time of this disaster to point out all that was wrong with it. The first thing you will notice is that the color of every scene has been destroyed. Senor Spielbergo should take all his fancy multi-million dollar computer controlled color ruining machinery and throw it all away. Then sit down and watch something like "North by Northwest" and see what true, accurate color looks like. The next most nauseating thing is all the moving camera shots. I tried counting them, then gave up when I realized that 99% of the whole movie is traveling camera shots. Just a few minutes of that nonsense is enough to make you barf.
Then there are the unlikable characters, which is just about everyone in this film. Totally shallow characterizations, somebody ought to tell the billionaire geniuses over at Dreamworks that if you hold a camera on an annoying and stupid jerk, like the character played by Shia LeBouef, long enough, they will appear to be annoying and stupid jerks. I could not have cared less for what happened to anyone in this "movie".
Next is the cloying and maudlin sentimentality, the humor that wasn't funny, the shallow stereotyping, and the presumption that the US Defense establishment is always working towards the good of all mankind. Oh brother give me a break, I'm through being kind to this piece of crap, it is tied for last place as the worst movie of all time! Anyone who needs proof that a bunch of over paid moguls can and will spend millions to make something truly awful just look at this film.