Why does a film supposedly about giant, warring robots spend literally 2/3rds of its time following around a dozen boring, nameless humans?
Why are there two metric tons of "plot" (read: frustratingly unfocused dialog mostly involving things unrelated to giant, warring robots) standing between the viewer and every decent action scene?
This is bloody >>Transformers<< not Days of our Lives. Make with the intergalactic robot battles already.
Sorry, but after the ridiculously awesome introduction I was all charged up for action-film history. Instead the movie stops... dead... for over an hour, while minute after long minute is spend developing countless characters who all somehow still come off as one-note and hollow.
Toss in a painfully lame slapstick sequence set in the main character's back yard (I don't buy the "it's a kid's movie" defense. Nobody young enough to think that scene is funny would have made it past the brutal introduction without bursting into tears.) and you've got a disappointing mess of a Blockbuster.
I recommend borrowing the DVD from your friend, watching the opening Middle East sequence, then hitting "stop" and going to do something else.
Why are there two metric tons of "plot" (read: frustratingly unfocused dialog mostly involving things unrelated to giant, warring robots) standing between the viewer and every decent action scene?
This is bloody >>Transformers<< not Days of our Lives. Make with the intergalactic robot battles already.
Sorry, but after the ridiculously awesome introduction I was all charged up for action-film history. Instead the movie stops... dead... for over an hour, while minute after long minute is spend developing countless characters who all somehow still come off as one-note and hollow.
Toss in a painfully lame slapstick sequence set in the main character's back yard (I don't buy the "it's a kid's movie" defense. Nobody young enough to think that scene is funny would have made it past the brutal introduction without bursting into tears.) and you've got a disappointing mess of a Blockbuster.
I recommend borrowing the DVD from your friend, watching the opening Middle East sequence, then hitting "stop" and going to do something else.