Booooooring

Rating: 2/10 (29 June 2011)

The basics of the story are pure genius, but they don't follow through. A little more consistency would've taken at least an hour off the plot, and I'm not talking about the endless end-fight only. The main story is nice 'n complicated. Lots of inconsistencies to keep it going, but nice in itself. The inconsistencies are pretty tolerable although they're clearly meant to augment the uptime. My girlfriend fell asleep during the end-sequence about five times, while suffering insomnia as I do, I could only think "take out that goddamn tower, Optimus, so we can get on with the rest of the evening we planned." Get it digitally and watch the main story till about 1h50', then feel free to skip 5' from time to time, you won't miss out. A cut version, about 1h30', would be pure genius, smashing action and storyline, never wasting watcher's time and giving us our money's worth. As it stands, I re-respect editors in their job, but clearly this thing hasn't had any. BTW if they allot Megan Fox the-kind-of star qualities, it only gets worse with this new kid. And she hasn't got 1/10 the looks (sorry, half wouldn't cut it). It would also be nice of IMDb to respect my carriage returns, but that'll be too much too ask.