Entertaining if not deep

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2011)

It got close, very close, to be a very good movie.
In the end the power of this movie comes from the connection you make with Witwicky. Early on in the movie, Witwicky fulfills his role nicely. He carries the movie along and you feel his frustration. The action is slow, and the movie tries to give you a lot of information, but it did okay.
The problem seemed to come when we really go to meet the autobots. I just could not garnish much excitement for the good guys. Okay, they are robots, but they did not give me any reason to care if they were blown away or not.
The action heats up in the second half almost to the point of there being too much. Things are happening all over the place, and the battle rages on and on.
In the end the movie came to a satisfactory end, though hardly a dramatic one. This movie did it's job, but far from excelled.