Just watched this action flick, man was it filled with action! It was action packed that there were times i found myself looking at metal origami happening on the screen and wondering a) who just transformed b) what were they transforming from/to c) why they were transforming, and before i could process that, they transformed again. Edge of the seat stuff.
My problem is that it was also followed a somewhat incoherent implausible incredulous plot. I shan't spoil it for you, so all i'll say is why is it that the decepticons have such elaborate plans (like the old villains of James Bond) while the autobots only have a couple of moves. Aside from their usual "Autobots attack!" and "Autobots retreat!", they have also added "Autobots hide!" to their bag of tricks. And what's with robots with cockney/london accents? I propose transformers 4 have a robot voiced by a Singaporean, like Kumar (funny dialogue), Hamish Brown (deep voice) or mrbrown (no relation)(bestest combi: funny voice with deep dialogue)
Because of the rapid pace of the show and the rather contrived storyline that tried to weave in actual history into the movie as background, the characters are left rather shallow. The hero Sam is just a schizo with a really hot girlfriend, who's really there to upstage MF by providing more booty shots than a shoe store (i swear that sounded better in my head). Optimus Prime also alternates between being this pansy-in-pain asking "why are you doing this?" whimp to being a kick ass sonic the hedgehog with an axe. Think Yoda fighting Count Dooku in Starwars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, just bigger. This lack of character development shows when the robots do really violent stuff to each other, while although humans are killed, you dun really show them dying by having their spines ripped out (and shown to them? oh wait, different movie. LOL). In fact, if you replaced what the robots did with humans, they'd be slapped with the Hague war crimes tribunal for crimes against humanity because of the rate that the unarmed and unprotected prisoners are being killed. More spoilers: quite a few robots are killed in this movie, including an already disarmed and helpless M, who is killed using the previously described form of severe spinal lobotomy. Very disturbing, yet in a funny way (because it's a testosterone-fest action flick) you felt compelled to jump up and cheer whenever a some robot was killed yelling "Yeah! Take that you mother-stickers!"
Michael Bay also overused the movie moments of tension and suspense/dread/please-dun-happen, which always followed up with an external party coming in to spoil the party (lol). Example of this is ah-kow and ah-ngeow fighting each other, pattern all come out one, more than badminton (see here for explanation), then suddenly ah-ngeow has the upper hand and is standing over ah-kow about to disembowel him, all hope is lost (you see it in ah-kow's eyes)........then a bald eagle (dun you just love the subtleness of Americans?) suddenly swoops in and knocks ah-ngeow over into a cauldron of hot water that happened to be on the boil because some a-hole had forgotten about cooking his soup and left it there while going to tend to his goats. In fact, there were moments in the show when Sam the hero was in deep trouble and looked like he was going to get killed, yet you knew he wasn't going to die since Zeus would come down from Mount Olympus and use his lightning bolts to open a Canon ass Nikoning.
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