Transformers 29 JUN 07
Warning: This article contain spoilers.

I watched Transformers yesterday evening and ermm.. I gotta say I didn’t quite like it. I was kinda psyche about the movie because Michael Bay is the director and he is good with action sequences… cause he did an excellent job in the movie The Island and Bad Boys 2. Don’t get me wrong the action sequence here is great.. but I find the camera was too close and it was all over the place, cause most of the time, the action scene was a jumble of twisted metal wreckage. I don't know which part is the arm and which part is the leg.

Another thing I don’t like about the movie is the story line. I don’t follow Transformers on cartoons or comic books but placing some sort of a code on a pair of spectacles? Give me a break… And the script below makes the movie goes down the drain:-

Boy: “How did you learn English?”
Autobot: “From the World Wide Web!”
Boy: “How did you find me?”
Optimus Prime: “From Ebay!”

What the heck?
And the one that break the camel’s back is when one of the police officer said to the girl, “She is a criminal and criminals are hot!”

By that time, I was already shaking my head. And star scream didn’t say much. In the cartoon he was always having this power struggle with Megatron, in the movie he was like an obedient slave. I think they didn’t do basic research.

   

 
Star Scream being destroyed by Megatron/Galvatron...
Sometimes this Transformer cartoon is more twisted than
soap operas.

 
   
Last but not least, I find Optimus Prime annoying. Even when he was fighting Megatron he was giving out cliches like “Now it is just you and me Magatron. One will rise and one will fall.” And the last part, when he was looking over the horizon, he gave this slow long winded speech about how they should protect this little human race and blah blah blah.. They have little snippets of extra footage and I didn’t even sit to watch through it.

But this show also advertise how “kilat” the US army coordinate it’s attack with the airforce lah, navy lah.. Right. At least that is what they want you to believe. One robot was downloading files and when the girl with the Australian accent demand the captain to shut the main computer or whatever it was.. they can do it in 30 seconds.. If that was Singapore Civil Defence, just giving basic command through the walkie talkie also can mess up. Oh well…

 
   

An action sequence from the Transformers... Optimus Prime is fighting
or making love to Magatron.. I can't really tell the difference.
 
   
Upside:
Special effects that will blow your mind away. These Americans are just too damn good!

Downside:
Cliche, dumb script. Placing code or whatever that thing was on a pair of glasses. A huge cube the size of 2 storey semi -detach house transforming to football size. A quiet starscream. Camera too close and shaky till I can't see shit.

 
   
 
   
 
 
 
 
   
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