Wasted potential.

Rating: 6/10 (5 July 2014)

I personally enjoyed the first two Transformers movies. They stayed fairly close in concept to the G1 cartoon I grew up with as a kid and had decent plots, a good protagonist with Sam and some humor thrown in for good measure. In this movie though, for me, things get idiotic. First of all, you have the transformation (no pun intended) of the Sam Witwicky character from someone eccentric, little whacky and amusing to a character that is over-acted in most scenes and becomes a whining, neurotic, squealing overly-erratic little punk who is just basically very annoying. Then you have the unnecessary love interest who is just there for eye-candy who is a little better than the one that was in the previous 2 movies but not by much.
The biggest sin though for me that this movie commits is the wasted opportunity with Shockwave. This is a character that in other transformers media is a brilliant tactician and strategist and instead of having him collaborating with Megatron and Sentinel Prime in their plan to rebuild Cybertron, all Bay has him do is smash stuff up everywhere with his driller and utter one line in the whole film. This movie is worth a look but for the reasons mentioned above, it really stands out as the absolute worst in the original 3 movies.