I couldn't wait to get out of the theater!

Rating: 1/10 (25 June 2009)

Boy, talk about a sophomore jinx!! This movie is pointless, noisy, illogical, obscure, and at times motion sickness inducing...and those are it's good points. I won't bother regurgitating the plot (what little of it there is) I'll just focus on the shortcomings if I can keep them below the 1,000 word minimum. Two scenes hit me over the head with their sheer stupidity, the first being the Air and Space Museum scene. Sam and company enter the building in Virginia, then walk through a hangar door to be magically transported into the desert amidst mountain ranges! Perhaps the films makers felt the intended audience were so out of touch with reality that they would have no grasp of basic geography. They must also know nothing about the laws of motion. One scene shows people standing in the bay of a troop transport jet, the jet then makes an abrupt turn, its wings being perpendicular to the ground, then the next shot shows them still standing as if nothing had happened instead of being plastered against the wall! Couple this with painful dialogue, over the top acting (this is a Michael Bay film, after all), and seemingly endless scenes of robots tearing each other to shreds and you have something that isn't even good enough to be considered a "popcorn flick" or a guilty pleasure. I'm just too disgusted to go on. Be warned...if you waste your money on this trash, don't say I didn't warn you!!