Andrew Nicholson

Oh my god. Words fail to describe this awful, awful, awful mess of what cannot really be called a “movie” in my opinion.
And me actually having an appreciation for the MTV – popcorn style movies which Michael Bay is famous for doing (I loved “The Rock”, “Bad Boys I” and especially “Armageddon”) I can ONLY conlcude this one sucks big time. Possibly one of the worst cinema experiences I have ever had (no joke). I just wanted it to end after about 45 minutes in… I definitely would have walked out of the cinema if I had been there alone or if I was with someone else who didn’t like it.

The first Transformers movie would never be in my top 100 films or let alone top 1000 probably but at least it had originality, some interesting ideas and funny bits. I actually remember seeing the Transformers car chase mid way through and thinking it was excellent. The 2nd installment is just ridiculous. 150 minutes of explosions, CGI, empty and uninteresting characters who all pretty much do nothing, plot lines which move far too fast, no single shot that lasts longer than 1 second, Megan Fox (hugely overrated imo) running around for no reason in a slinky top, terrible humour, irritating characters which are unnecessary to the film (Shia’s parents), absolutely NO character development, etc. etc. And believe me I actually wanted to like this film and would have forgiven some of these cliches to an extent but 150 minutes of constant CGI really does not make a movie I think. There is NO heart in this, NO passion for making a movie which harnasses human values to any extent, instead it spits in the face of decency and it makes a Britney Spears musicvideo look like an opus. The “script” must have been 1 single A4 sheet????

Definitely the worst thing I have EVER seen that has had the names “Michael Bay” and “Steven Spielberg” associated with it. I have forgiven them both for “Bad Boys II”, “Pearl Harbour”, “1941″ and “Amistad”. How in God’s name do they get away with making something like this????

Extremely disappointed…. I cannot believe Paramount and Dreamworks have commissioned Transformers 3. I can only conclude they have NO dignity whatsoever and I have lost a LOT of respect for Spielberg on this one too.

A colleague at work pointed out this review by Mark Kermode from a radio show he does on five live. He starts talking about the movie about 17.30 minutes into the broadcast. He makes a lot of good and valid points; this is simply not good enough for a summer blockbuster movie which costs $200 million to produce. Indeed making an action flick based around robots with plenty of CGI is fine and the first installment is perfectly acceptable, but this one is just not. Outrageous.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/entertainment/kermode.shtml

What a Rubbish film, utter garbage in my opinion. How dare Michael Bay took a pun at Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” when he makes a movie that sucks about a thousand times more than that one even if it was just meant as a joke! (http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/05/08/michael-bay-says-indiana-jones-4-is-gonna-suck/ ).

Like Mark says in his review: I hated it.

SCORE: 1/10