Michael Bay - The Accidental Auteurist

Rating: 7/10 (1 July 2011)

Michael Bay is certainly nothing short of an accidental auteurist! With his latest offering he takes the ockham's razor to the summer blockbuster, carving out the superfluous- story,characterization, et al, while distilling the necessary and tweaking his distinct Bay-ian aesthetic to a maximum to produce the purest testimony of an evident cinematic apocalypse.
Also worthy of interest is Bay's provocative depiction of the British bimb0. Her reduction to an object of the gaze is evident throughout the film. In one glorious shot where she scuttles to the telescope to view the enemy forces Bay cuts from this collagen prone bombshell(sic!) to a fancy golden maned bitch seated on a similar chair passively viewing the ensuing mayhem!Talk about free association! Such honesty and fearless purity of vision effectively transcends the entire camp of critical left field detractors!
As a final note : I'm sure future post modernists shall hail this film as the newest reincarnation of B-movie conventions . the 'b' now read as Blockbuster. Move over grind house! The CGI ridden future is here!