Sucked Devastator balls!

Rating: 3/10 (21 June 2009)

Crap. This movie was, on the whole, just crap.
The opening scene in Shanghai and the forest battle were great but everything else sucked Devastator balls.
I really liked the first one. It was an enjoyable origin story that had a good dose of humour, action and spectacle. This movie hits a dumb note from the get go. What, we start of our film because a piece of the 'all spark' falls out of Shias jacket? Give me a, lame excuse for a movie, break. Que an unnecessary OTT gremlins meets transformers scene that goes nowhere. Que a stupid sub plot involving Shia's pornstar girlfriend that culminates with her catching him 'cheating' with a female terminator (sorry, I mean 'transformer human' or 'pretender' or whatever it was called). Cue a plot line so contrived and forced and daft that it boggled the mind. There are so many explosions and hard-to-make-out-who-is-who robot action that after a while you just become numb to it. A guy beside me was yawning was bullets and bombs went off near the pyramids - that's not the emotion you want with people watching an action film. These kind of films are as much about build up and suspense as they are about hardcore action and here the whole movie was just the latter. Less would have been so much more. Disappointing.