Trying to be honest

Rating: 2/10 (24 June 2009)

***contains spoilers*** First off, I really did not want to write this review because there are so many things that awfully wrong with this movie that the sheer effort to write it all is making me want to give up all ready.
I think Megan Fox is allergic to shell fish and they served it everyday for lunch on the set because her face took up half the screen in every shot she was in.
This movie was a huge disappointment.
Bay's films are always predictable, and I went in knowing this, but nothing could prepare me for the cluster F I watched last night.
The action was intense and that is why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1.
The story was not only awful, but made no or little sense and jumped back and forth with a lot of holes and unnecessary characters and situations.
There was a lot of elements that were never explained to audience. The questions of "who, what, where, why, and how" are something that Bay and his writers have no concept for. They threw you into the story (which is fine) but introduced dozens and dozens of characters you have never heard or seen before, but assumed that because you saw the first one you would "just get it" So many clichés to count or even remember. The whole "kissing another girl you didn't want to kiss just as your girlfriend walks in the door" oh but wait! She is a terminator...ER I mean transformer? Oh and your girlfriend stays mad at you for 5 minutes and that whole sequence has no bearing on the the rest of the movie or plot...
Then you meet some old transformer (who acts old even tho every other transformer in the last movie such as mega-tron is hundreds or thousands of years old is still in tip top shape) And also looks like one of those aliens in star wars the clone wars.
Oh! And the military has a top secret rail gun just thrown in there that can take out transformers in one shot (why didn't they use that before??) And don't forget in the temple where the "matrix" was that was probably explored by hundreds of archaeologists has a hidden room behind the first painting to the left that was never found.
and dozens of little robots that spoke like they were on the real world
My whole point being, its way too fast and has so many holes or UN explained situations and characters. Seems like there was never a story board even created. This movie straight up sucks.
Even the special effects were so long, overdone, and mixed with close up shots that just meshed into one great big kaleidoscope. He didn't even use slow motion for the "really really cool parts"
Terrible, terrible, terrible...even for Bay