Michael Bay is a scam artist who ought to be tested for substance abuse

Rating: 4/10 (29 September 2009)

I got the impression that Michael Bay did not actually do much directing in this movie. He was actually sitting at home and getting high the whole time while some computer geeks working feverishly on the special effects. There is no sign of a written script. Dialogues seems to be made up on the spot. Throw in some stock military footage of jet fighters and helicopters taking off and flying around, and some crazy editing of random shots of actors confused facial expression, running around in slow motion, yelling at each other in nonsensical gibberish, you have the movie! The editing and camera crew ought to be lined up and tested for substance abuse. No sober person could come up with this jumbo heap of mental diarrhea.
There is a strange consistency in Michael Bay's work. It has the look and feel of a US army's recruiting commercial. He is one of those current generation directors who make the whole movie looks like an ad campaign. The style works for ad campaign because the audience get an vague impression of what is going on but to find out what is really going on, they will have to go to the store and buy the product. It does not work for the movie because here, the movie IS the product. Michael Bay's character are also very loud and hyper. Come to think of it, I think they should send the whole film crew for drug testing, especially the director himself.
Also, I sense some cynical sarcasm in this sequel. It is so bad that it seems to be some sort of self deprecating parody. It is like Michael Bay is trying to paint a cartoon picture of himself that exaggerates all of his flaws. You know the kind of pictures in Mad Magazine. It is a pretty expensive joke consider the budget of this movie. But then again, like the title suggested, Michael probably scammed all those money away because this movie, though looks like very expensive on the surface, can probably be made with much less money consider 95% of the screen time are filled with computer generated effects. He could have out sourced the special effects to India or China, where mad 3d animation genius are working for peanuts. Hence my accusation of him being a scam artist.
My dad, being an old man from Asia, had never heard of Michael Bay before. He watched the movie for a bit and asked me if the movie was directed by a lunatic. He was very serious and sincere when he asked that question. I couldn't help and started laughing hysterically, while my poor dad looking at me, truly scared and concerned.