Just a popcorn no brainer movie!

Rating: 2/10 (3 July 2011)

Honestly, I've never been this disappointed before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't be fooled by their hardworking PR, unless you want to see an easy popcorn movie with 2 1/2 hours to waste! I can easily list 100 consistency errors throughout the film and all kind of other ridiculous too-good-to-be-true details (such as why on earth these super transformers can't shoot straight but why our so called heroes always better shooters? why they always have time to chit chat nonsense whilst they seem to be in an extreme situation etc) and too common scripts without too much thoughts behind, just purely trying to get some cheap laughs from the audience!!!
There are so many scenes that are not relevant to the plot at all, that I don't know why they are there in the first place. The film is just all over the place! It seems like there's a different person directing each shot, and they kind of combining them together in the end! There are also too way many characters that are in the film for NO REASON at all. They contribute nothing, just talk nonsense, and purely serve a very cliché purpose of their roles like the soldier captains who always tried to be cool and the hot girl who always somehow managed to look hot, and ready for sexy posing anytime even when things flying around but managed not to hit her! Or simply she is Sam's some gf, she can follow him even to the most top secured places in military, and of course, in high heels!
You can always spot various clichés in the film like you go to a rusty bar in somewhere, showing your guns and hard talk and you dig out a top secret just like that! Or the timing always works in favour of our heroes, and against the enemies. etc...
Also, I kept asking myself:

Why on earth the Transformers have to speak in English, a human language when they talk to one another of their own race????

(Come on, I just watched Game of Thrones on Sky recently, and they are even bothered enough to invite a language expert to create a whole new language for the Dothraki for the film, and of course the actors/actresses speak in this language themselves)

Why on earth Optimus did not kill Megatron properly before? We're sure he knows well enough how to kill a Decepticons PROPERLY? At this rate, Megatron will never die and keep coming back!

Why on earth most of the film has to be filmed at some very typical American cities like DC and Chicago, is it because the transformers love America that much that they would do anything in these cities, apart from very few scenes somewhere else? Or is it because it would be easier/cheaper to use their already-have studio to film? honestly, I got fed up with all the action films in New York/ D.C ! Come on, the world is a big place, don't try to fit the whole story in 1 or 2 American cities, that makes the film really lame and crippled.

The end of the film is supposed to be very dramatic, with our world on edge of slavery but there is NO SINGLE SCENE showing people/families in worry, in panic, in some emotional state! There is very few scenes of the public! Only Sam and his gf running around, the world has never seem to be so small and limited in any films about our world before!

Why on earth the story HAS TO BE AROUND the boy named SAM? OK, I got it. he is a key person in the beginning story and may be the one after that. But look, I would really to know MORE ABOUT THE TRANSFORMERS. ABOUT THEM! Not any more single details about the boy Sam, who I can obviously see used as a tool by the film director to attract young boy audience who can relate to as if they were in the film, through the adventure, from nobody to somebody, has nice cars, hot girls, and be a hero saving the world (just coincidently, tick all boxes of all young boy dreams?).. and thus sell the tickets. If it were me, I would tell a really deep, SERIOUS story about the transformers race, their world, their planets, their history (a more full and comprehensive history rather than some bits and pieces like at the moment) and wouldn't it be fantastic to have battles on their planet or in the universe for a change? let's make it epic, and really on a world/planet/universe scale, rather than trying to push it around a boy named Sam! Its purely commercially driven and thus wasting its unlimited potential and freedom to make a great epic story itself.

Sadly, transformers are one of the most exciting things but you can see they are no where the centre of the story, but instead being used as some toys adding some effects the film rather than the main characters themselves. Need more hard work, and passion to your supposed to be main characters, Michael Bay!
All in all, I just barely survived my worst cinema experience ever. Anyone with half of a brain can easily see the film is badly written, badly directed, badly edited but heavily commercial driven! Simply a popcorn movie.