No More Than Meets the Eye

Rating: 2/10 (3 July 2007)

There is not enough syntax in my own very limited vocabulary that could express just how horrible this film was. Let me be fair by starting off with the fact that I freakin love Transformers. I watched transformers non stop, and then continued on with the series with the whole beast wars bit. The autobots are awesome. Now keeping that in mind, only anyone dumber than a monkey will like this film. There is no glue to hold the film together. Stuff happens without any explanation at all. There are no rules. The only rule is that anything could happen at any point without any explanation for any reason, and you just go along.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have gathered you here because you are the best of the best. You are here to crack this code that no one else could figure out. We have three floors of operatives working on this code and no one has figured it out. We are counting on you.
Hi, I'm the super hot blond girl with the even hotter Australian accent and I know there is only one person who could hack this code. Let me steal this classified material without the slightest of difficulties and bring it to some fat nerd who lives at home with his mom and spends his time playing DDR. Yeah, he'll crack the code.
What?!?
Not only did Bay ask his audience to take huge leaps of faith when watching a movie that was 10,000X more unrealistic than Live Free or Die Hard (which I loved, by the way), but he tops it off with the most ludicrous comedy scenes that only bring the movie down. I mean come on, what was John Turturro thinking when he signed up for this movie? His character is a cheap police knock off who is from Sector 7? Could we be any more less original?
And the writing was soul shattering...but not in the good way. There is a line in the movie where a Sector 7 agent actually said, "I would be willing to be my ridiculously large government salary that I'm right..." Or something along those lines. Ugh! Thats not art or cinema or even something out of a story. That's something a quarterback says when he is writing a screen play.
The only thing good about the movie was the special effects. Every action scene with the robots was amazing.
Final Summation....
Visuals and Action- Amazing Dialog- Worse than Roadhouse Plot- Had potential but nothing was explained Context- Terrible and painful
Grade- D-
DO NOT waste your money on this movie.