Just might be the worst film in the history of cinema

Rating: 1/10 (26 June 2009)

For all intents and purposes, there is no story within this film. It is an utter, and complete mess, an abominable and failed film-making exercise in all CGI and no character advancement.
It is a cocktail of explosions and over-use of CGI, and eon-old Hollywood clichés stolen from a collection of classics. Michael Bay has obviously forgotten his adequate storytelling since "The Island" and is now treading where horrible sequels tread... the land of all style, no substance.
Aside from plot holes, loop holes, and gaping crater holes spread throughout the film it is terribly edited. There are time-lapses, and untimely scene cuts, and inexplicable displacement of characters and robots all the time. It is as if Michael Bay decided to edit it on his own (which he has), and gave up when he realized what a churning, improvisational mess he had shot on set.
The acting is competent from all leads, aside from the mediocrity of Megan Fox, which has to be singled out. She is nothing more in this film than a vessel for cleavage, a tanned face with blue eyes. I don't know which one is sadder; Michael Bay's objectification of this girl, or her acceptance of it. Her romantic scenes with Shia LeBeouf feels like torture, force-fed and with less authenticity than the most tear jerking sequence in "Pearl Harbor".
Of course it all comes down to the material, since the script is an utter insult to those tireless people who toil and write everyday in the film industry. It is truly a marvelous piece of juvenile humor, chaotic action scenes and Michael Bay's genital fixation and toilet humor with robots.
All the characters are tanned from the 80s, all the girls are hot, all the men are wise cracking clowns and all the robots have stereotypical accents of either black or English men.
If you do one thing right in your life, do not see this film.
This is the zenith in the history of bad movies.