I had high hopes for this movie, so decided to throw down some big bucks (all of 6) to see it on the big screen. What a waste!
Probably the killer is that the whole movie is shot in digital. This really sucks for dark scenes. Really. The dark scenes were so grainy that the pixels were probably the size of quarters. I was disgusted.
Next up, there are some really cheesy sequences. To make the dark scenes even worse, there is a sequence that is filmed at the young hero's house, and these 20-foot tall, 20-ton, super-high-tech robots are stamping around in a garden acting like clowns trying not to be discovered by said hero's parents. Dumb.
The dialog leaves a lot to be desired. The action sequences near the end of the movie start making up for the vast hole the movie has dug for itself, but the nails are in the coffin and there is no escaping. I appreciate that they had the ILM folks base the fights off martial arts, and during the daylight, the scenes are crisp and the CGI is quite good, even to the point that artists who did the CGI detailed the robots with intricate moving parts, making it look like a well-engineered marvel that it is supposed to be.
While the movie had some obvious tie-ins to what we grew up with in the 80's (the voice acting for Optimus Prime brought back memories), I could not help but groan when the Transformer-patented transformation sound byte kicked in; it is superimposed over some other machine sound affects, and it just comes out being awkward and not well choreographed.
In the end, I do not even know how the good guys won. Other than Optimus's plasma knife, all the Autobots seemed vastly inferior to the Decepticons.
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