a propaganda movie

Rating: 3/10 (9 July 2007)

The movie is no more than another American war movie, unfortunately.
The movie begins with the attack of the evil Decepticons to an American military base in Qatar (note the country), which makes it a war of The US; and in the rest of the movie we watch American patriotism in almost every scene. It is the Americans fighting the Decepticons, not the Megatrons. Megatrons' role is just to help American soldiers in their fight with the Decepticons (spoiler: oh, if you do not count their role in the very end... the role of guarding the main characters' having sex on bumble bee). When I heard of Optimus Prime speaking on freedom and the backwardness (or underdevelopment, I do not remember the word well) of human race, I felt as if I am listening to the American president talking about the Iraqis.
The events and the wars should have taken place in Cybertron, not in the cities of the USA. We should have seen the social relationship among the Autobots, rather than a boring American teenager love story. All these and more show that the movie cannot be a classic (unless it becomes a classic of propaganda movies in near future).
The visual effects were good, though. Yet it is difficult to see the effects and to follow who fights whom in the crowded city.
In short, the movie is frustrating for the fanatics and nauseous for the non-patriots.