A Poor Effort

Rating: 4/10 (26 June 2009)

Michael Bay can shoot one heck of an action sequence. It is hard to beat his style when it comes to action. Nevertheless, I am convinced he cannot tell a story at all.
Though there were some exciting moments in the movie, it fell flat for me. It was all over the place. The characters were one dimensional and uninspired. The comic relief was too much. Finally, the film was insulting on so many levels.
(Insult #1) Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Transformers based on a Hasbro toy line. So, who are they marketing this film to? Not my kid! He's 10 and his mouth dropped when every four letter word save the "F" bomb was spewing out every character like water from a broken sewer line.
(Insult #2) The twins are an outrageous ghetto duo that even insulted me, a white man! Holy smokes, how they thought that these characters would fly, I don't know.
(Insult #3) Again, my 10 year old isn't interested in seeing rear ends of bombshell blonde's hanging out of there thin little dresses. He wants to see robots fighting other robots and soldiers fighting robots.
Final thought: a poor effort from a film maker with poor character as far as I'm concerned.