So much wasted potential.

Rating: 1/10 (27 August 2007)

This movie was all I feared it would turn out to be.
Yes the FX are brilliant... The use of the military had some major plus points... I even though the cast was pretty good... But for the love of Prime the plot! I honestly believe a child could have come up with something better.
Seriously: The Transformers were hardly even in the film. It was ALL about Sam from beginning to end. The redesign of the TF's was pretty awful (Except Jazz... he looked pretty cool. A total Appleseed rip off.... but pretty cool). There was NO character development at all. The whole part about hacking the signal was useless rubbish and shouldn't have been there. The idea about Megatron being frozen in ice for thousands of years... No (and yes, I know they made a similar mistake in G1). That he was the basis for our advanced technology... give me a break! To reverse engineer anything means taking the original apart. If that were the case old Megs would have been sprawled over the whole site in about a trillion little pieces. And then... the crown jewel here... at the end of the movie: The military successfully cover it all up!! I nearly cried... I mean these giant robots destroy half a city, kill dozens of people in the process, and they're going to pretend it never happened? Sorry, but that goes beyond suspension of disbelief into the realm of the ridiculous! If there is one thing I always hate in movies it is wasted potential. This film was nothing BUT wasted potential. Done properly the Transformers movie could have been the next Bladerunner... the next 2001... the next Star Wars! (original trilogy, not the perequels). Instead we get this... This pathetic joke of a film.
I'm a G1 fanboy... I will confess to that. But I also recognize the multitude of mistakes G1 has in it and that is a very long list. It still surpasses this movies sad excuse for a plot line however. I'll just end with a quote I last used to describe the afore mentioned star wars prequels: "It is all light and sound, signifying nothing."