Nice Effects... What Else?

Rating: 2/10 (28 June 2009)

I was forced into seeing this movie and basically, I want my 2 and a half hours back and I want my hearing back.
I like movies with action and that isn't what the turn off is in this movie. This movie seems like ALL they did was focus on the Special Effects and nothing else. I like movies with a story and depending on genre, a deep and thought out one. In this case, this movie was much like Terminator: Salvation. Only in T:S, there was good acting.
The machines are smart right? Wrong. They have the worst dialogue I have ever heard. Well, not actually. They had terrible dialogue. Shia LaBeouf was more interesting then the machines, and that (in my opinion), is saying something. He isn't the best lead.
I have to hand it to Michael Bay, the effects were very nice, but he wasted a ton of money. He just seemed to focus on the effects. This movie was missing everything needed to be a movie. A shame. Michael, stop blowing things up, make a story first, then blowing things up will be much more rewarding.
2/10