Like the plague

Rating: 1/10 (30 June 2014)

ROTF is awful, it's a putrid, hateful piece of cinema - and by "hateful" I mean it hates the audience, it craps on them, it insults them, it assaults them, and it yells at them constantly. This movie is cinematic diarrhea, it has nothing to say so it shouts as loudly and confusingly as it can. I was dragged me to see it in the theaters by a buddy, and I am confident they will some day have to answer to their maker for that misdeed.
ROTF is a visual cacophony of a million moving parts all over the place on top of shaky-cam. It's incredibly stupid, it stands for nothing and inverts itself on its morality time and time again - especially for our "heroes" - its so-called plot is nonsensical to a degree that is mind- numbing, it's base and cheap and racist and ugly, it uses its camera to leer at every woman in the cast under the age of 30 with an eye-rapist manner, it's unholy bloated, and even its helmer - Michael Bay - called it "crap" despite having an active loathing for the audience who he says will go see it no matter how bad it is.
It's not clever or creative or interested in the franchise it's representing or concerned about the audience whatsoever, it is a 2.5- hour long slugfest to sell GM cars and toys and tie-in merchandising opportunities and it doesn't care a lick about entertainment beyond the lowest common denominator.
It is a dump truck full of Lucky Charms and McDonalds hamburgers and Twinkies, slowly turning rancid, being poured over the audience until they eat so much that they hate the taste of that junk food which they used to crave.
It made action scenes and giant robots and explosions incredibly boring by their utter lack of novelty or restraint.