To me this would have been an awesome action movie....... but it had one major flaw - the damn shots just won't linger! And the camera was always too zoomed in on the robots.
The plot was okay, the acting from Shia LaBeouf is pretty good (good comic timing by him), the pacing and flow good, the humour, the CGI mostly awesome... but the action scenes!! Gah it's just so frustrating to me because this could have been the coolest, most badass action flick since Terminator 2.
The camera just won't stop moving, and all we usually get to see is the transformers' belly and arm or head, never the entire thing when they are fighting (and when we do see the whole body it cuts to another scene 0.23 seconds later). Sorry kobe but I did get that "I would have done this another way" feeling when I was watching the action scenes

. I guess I should have expected this from an mtv director like Bay, but dammit I really regret not having longer shots like in T2.
Seriously, there wasn't a single scene in this movie that was cooler than when the T-800 climbed onto that liquid-nitrogen truck and pumped a whole mag of an M16 point blank into the T-1000. And even that wasnt the best scene from T2. lol okay so maybe I'm comparing too much to T2 but I consider T2 to be the best pure action movie, the kind that where the action and gunfights and explosions take precedence over everything else... oh and Bay's explosions have always been massive, but here... I dunno... I would have liked if the rockets blew up with bigger and more flames lol.
Frenzy was kinda annoying as well, like a slightly less annoying Jar Jar Binks. The other Transformers were all cool though, I would have preferred Optimus without moving lips and just the mouthshield but he's still awesome! Megatron was a bit of a letdown but Starscream is the best here. Bonecrusher died way too easily. And the supposedly "massive, intense" fight between Optimus and Megatron was seriously a letdown... they barely had a go at each other!
The CGI was great but the fast shots really underwhelmed it, heck come to think of it they probably went for the super-fast cuts to minimize the cost. No wonder it only cost $150mil.
Other than that the movie is a blast. Too bad the camera stopped it from being great. 7.5/10.
P/S: Am I the only one who thought the coolest scene was the Nokiabot... damn he had miniguns (I mean mini literally lol) and rockets!

btw what happened to
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Barricade and Scorponok? I dont remember seeing the former die... and scorponok the coward just decided to live in the desert after that? technicallyu he aint a transformer right., since he doesn't transform at all.
This post has been edited by QuickFire: Jun 29 2007, 07:32 PM