Nobody had any faith in this movie and it shows.

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2009)

1.Incoherent plot.. scenes in the movie lead nowhere or have no real purpose, comedy filler, waste time, no story logic. The movie's script made it hard to suspend belief and enjoy the movie. The Allspark is a very bad McGuffin it does everything just to cover up for the poor plot. How do the TFs get off a planet if they can't transform into something that flies? B movie but with a bigger budget...
2.Laughably bad CRINGE INDUCING dialogue. "My bad" Shia "NoNoNoNoNo"....." Whats up lil b******"....."Touch my bush I'll kick your a**!'' ...."Happy Time" anything Agent Simmons said, "You eye'n my piece 50 cent? "etc. etc......... VOMIT 3. The army can kill the Decepticons. Superior beings.. yeah right.. Why even have the autobots. Sam killing Megatron in a poorly shot and edited final battle.
4.Transformers look like metal scraps glued together. Complete disrespect to the source material. TF's are background props. Script is there only to push the movie towards the next explosion.
5.Dramatic scenes that fly straight out of left field. At the end Fox says "I'm so glad I got in the car with you." WTF 6.Formerly respectable star sinks to a new low.. John Turturro Jon Voight,Golden Shower Bumblebee pees now and farts? comedy gold....
7.Incredible overacting that is obviously encouraged by the director. NoNoNo Agent Simmons
8.Bumblebee who cannot speak for no apparent reason..Bad story telling.. Damaged in battle ....please, prequel comic or motion comic just try to cover up horrible story telling .Makes no sense other than that is what the director or script calls for in the movie. (no story logic.^) Wouldn't need to waste so much time If BumbleBee could repair himself (like Barricade repaired himself after the first with Bumblepee fight) and tell Shia that he needs the glasses!
9.Rampant racial stereotyping. Bobby B " Hey Mammy " everybody tell the Hispanic soldier and Bobby B's mechanic to " Speak English dude " all the black characters yell scream and act crazy "left cheek left cheek!" shout up grandma! the doughnut scene
10.Characters with a lot of face time who end up playing no important role in the "story?" Hackers and soldiers.
11.The action in some shots is hopelessly muddled. Shaky Cam, close ups, and quick cut editing.
12. Jazz's hilarious death scene is matched only by his hilarious eulogy. The Transformers are just props. I don't care if he dies and neither did any of the other Transformers.
13. Transformers had little scene time due to over elaborated designs which made them too expensive! Prime shows up 70 mins into the movie.
14. Blatant over the top product placement. Takes away from the movie experience. Not just minor product placement the movie stops just for the product placement. Bumblebee updates to a newer car, the memory card, the pilots getting into the F 22.
15. Transformers are secondary characters with little to no dialogue.
16. Hard to tell the Transformers apart. As long as the camera stands still long enough and the transformer is not silver. If it is an action scene forget about it..
17. For an action blockbuster there is not much action: 5 min of action in the beginning 10 min of action in the middle and 10 min of action at the end. In a 2 hr and 30 min movie. All of which jumps around from robots to humans every 2 seconds, due to the quick cut editing. Shaky Cam and close ups ruin most of the action also.
18. Shia LaBarf can't act. NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNo comedy shtick routine , Talk to myself while by myself = funny. Even Stevens with robots.
19. Meagan Fox can't act. ........LMAO 20. Michael Bay can't direct. Brawl is the tank Bay.. not DEVASTATOR. No respect for the source material. Transformers look like Bionicles. Tells the fans of the original cartoon " It doesn't hold up.. not that good " Overused cliché trademarks Intense slow motion shots of characters Has the camera moving during most scenes. Very rarely uses static shots.
Actors/characters in his films are almost uniformly shot in tight, emphatic close ups, framed under the hairline and above the chin.
Often has over-the-top visuals (i.e. key events taking place at sunset or dramatic events taking place behind actors doing routine activities).
Utilizes monotonic but intense musical cues during action-filled car chase scenes. Bad Boys II (2003), The Island (2005) Uses shots of aircraft against a setting sun, especially helicopters (Armageddon (1998/I), Pearl Harbor (2001), Transformers (2007)).
Often features a slow-motion shot of an object crashing into, or tumbling towards the camera.
Uses a shot where the camera spins in a circle around characters. (Bad Boys II, Transformers) Frequently incorporates scenes that involve characters running or moving towards the camera (almost always shot in slow-motion) all aspects of this film are terrible.