Filmfan93
The Man in Black
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Rolling Stone gave this thing zero stars. Is it really THAT bad? I mean...I LOVE Transformers. I grew up in the 80's, so the property is near and dear to my heart. I certainly haven't loved what Bay has done, but I've been able to turn my brain off and enjoy it for what it was. This one however just seems to be pure and utter ass. Even people I know that actually liked the others have had nothing positive to say about it.
I watched it yesterday and yes, it really is THAT bad. From someone who enjoyed 1-3 and even many bits from 4, this was hot garbage. My friend who is a TF film fan hated it too.
Good CGI and spectacle scenes here and there, shadowed by RIDICULOUSLY long dialogues, boring scenes where nothing interesting happens and unnesessary exposition.
The story is one big incomprehensibe mess. The editing is atrocious (SS' editing is masterpiece compared to this). This is not a coherently structured film, but one big pile of scenes put together. It jumps from scene to scene just like that, without giving you time to breath in what just happened. It is a pain to watch and go through to the good bits (which are very little and pop here and there). I would challenge anyone to try re-tell me and structure the film from their memory on the the next day after seeing it and I bet they won't be able to.
Everyone is wasted - Optimus has 15 mins of screen time total, Autobots are wasted, Grimlock doesn't do anything, Decepticons are also wasted, including Megatron. All cool scenes and I mean literally every cool scene is shown almost ENTIRELY in the trailers (the actual scenes are only 10-15 seconds longer in the film itself). The last act is all over the place. Things just... happen.
Duhamel and Turturo are completely wasted and Tucci's role breaks continuity by having the same actor play a different role.
I am giving this 3/10 just for the good CGI and spectacle that Bay does well, but I feel like this is too generous and I'm done with this franchise until someone else steps in.
P.S And don't get me wrong. I knew exactly what I was going to see and the good things to look for, and this film still managed to disappoint me and my friend and make us regret that we went seeing it.
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