ILM Top, Michael Bay FLOP

Rating: 9/10 (29 June 2009)

I went in this Movie withs the expectation of great CGI, and what i saw was the best CGI up to date. In my small opinion ILM did a great and outstanding job. The robots look so real and are fantastic animated.
But here comes the worse. Bay again decided to use lots of fast cuts and camera switches and adds a lack of slow motions so you don't really have the time to flow with the motion. The Action scenes are cut terribly in pieces which makes you really hard to follow. Specially the last main fight appears as a horror mix of random cuts. I really don't get it. ILM produced complete models with up to 50.000 parts which where fully use able, but in the movie it sometimes appears like they had to save money so they only show little parts from the robots on the screen, as if they had to hide the rest because it wasn't complete. Really sad. Also in the last fight it is nearly impossible to see which robots are Decepticons and which are the Autobots, it just seems like a orgy of 1 sec. cuts.
The story was not the best but not the worst, some of the jokes really cracked down the whole audience i was in with. The story about the "Transformer Nerd" who shares an apartment with "Sam" was really useless and i didn't liked it. Since i cant separately vote, i'll have to give ILM 10* and Bay 1* which leads me to: 10-1= 9 I hope there's gonna be a part 3 (since they already earned double the production costs) but then really fall in love with the CGI and wrap it with a tight story
greetings from Germany