A Frustrating Film

Rating: 4/10 (17 July 2011)

None of the transformers movies have been all that good, but this one is the worst. Even the CGI (which up to this point was pretty good) is bad, there were scenes where I felt like I could see where the green screen was. The frustrating part of it is that you can see the potential of this series, the transforming robots are cool and the comic book story behind it is interesting. But other than the robots everything else in the movies is total crap. Cliché after cliché and the girl they have playing Sam's girlfriend is totally useless, she is nothing but eye candy the whole movie and then at the end they give her a few lines to try and make her character matter. Another thing that angered me was the lines they give the robots, why are they all using slang? They are a millions year old race of robots and they use our slang? But I think that sums up the problem with this movie, Michael Bay took a good story and changed it into a stupid pop culture music video. Also, I am waiting for him to make a movie where all people do is get out of cars, apparently his signature scene. I also hated the Star Trek line they threw in at the end. This is more than just a bad movie, its an insult to movie goers, Michael Bay is telling us this is what you like. I hate myself for going to see this movie, but I am a sucker for the blockbuster and so I found myself sitting in the theatre wringing my hands. I would love to see Christopher Nolans take on this story, not sure if this is his style but at least he would spend more than 10 minutes writing the story.