IMDb top 250: -
Rating 5/10
Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Robert Orci & Alex Kurtzman
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel & Jon Voight
"No sacrifice, no victory."
Transformers based on the toys by Hasbro is about two Cybertron races - the Autobots and the Decepticons - coming to earth in search of the AllSpark (Cube) both to use in very different ways. The Autobots led by Optimus Prime want the AllSpark to rebuild Cybertron and the Decepticons led by Megatron want it to rule the universe. Naturally humans are caught up in the middle of this war and they assist the Autobots in trying to save the world.
My 5/10 rating probably suggests I don't like this movie but that's not exactly the case. I do enjoy this movie but it just doesn't blow me away or warrant a higher rating. Whilst as an action movie it does what it says on the tin it doesn't really offer anything new. The script could've been taken from any number of action films and all the script writers have done is change the names of the characters. It's all so predictable, a bit of a paint by numbers action film. These types of characters have been done to death and are a bit obvious and whilst there are some funny moments in the movie the jokes and sight gags used have been seen and heard before. Some scenes are just ridiculous; like the phone operator in the call centre offering the package deals, whilst things are blowing up in the background on the other end of the phone, it's all a bit silly.
The acting is passable from all except Megan Fox who is at times a bit weak, however her character hardly requires a Meryl Streep type performance. There is A LOT of shouting and that gets a bit annoying after a while. Shia's parents in the movie are really good and provide some good laughs and it's always nice to see Bernie Mac on my screen.
The movie has a lot of scenes of the main characters dodging, ducking and diving all kinds of debris, bullets, flying robots and cars and it appears everyone who has a line of dialogue in this movie has this superhuman skill! This is something that really annoys me and I think is very lazy storytelling. Shia LaBeouf's character can't see a massive bump in the road whilst riding his mothers bike and ends up flipping over, yet manages to avoid being shot or crushed whilst all sorts of things are blowing up around him, it's silly and insulting to the viewer.
The CGI is very good, however in parts the action is so fast it's hard to tell what's going on and I find it difficult to tell the robots apart when they're fighting.
All this aside it is still a very watchable movie if you switch your brain off and just enjoy it for what it is! I've seen it a number of times before and would watch it again!
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