An average movie

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back, I thought I might as well check it out again. To be honest, it is rather difficult to judge this movie so many years later after its release, especially considering the fact that the 4 sequels that followed were so disappointing and, honestly, just some rather expensive garbage. But how was this first installment? Honestly, I didn’t remember that it was so interminable, seriously, they could have easily cut 30 mins or even longer. Still, I thought it was not bad at all, especially since I didn’t have some really high expectations. Indeed, you have to give that to Michael Bay, those robots looked really awesome and the action scenes were really neat. One thing that was great with this movie is that you really had the feeling you were watching something new and quite thrilling, whereas with the sequels, there was a terrible sense of ‘déjà vu’ and the whole gimmick was getting rather tiresome (However, this aspect works much less when you rewatch the damned thing, I’m afraid). Furthermore, I thought that Shia LaBeouf was seriously charismatic and really funny in this. Back then, his career was really exploding but after starring in some of the biggest blockbusters ever made, he decided to do something completely different with his career. So, it was a really fun movie and I enjoyed most of it. Of course, it was far from being a masterpiece though and many elements didn’t work out. For example, to make us believe that someone like Megan Fox’s character would fall for a guy like Sam Witwicky was just rather pathetic. The other major weak point was that they put the focus way too much on the human characters and the robots were just some supporting characters when they should have been central to the story. Of course, since it was a huge box-office success, they decided to make some sequels and I think the mistake they made was to keep Michael Bay as a director. I mean, he did actually a decent job on this first installment but he didn’t even try to make something interesting out of these sequels whereas another director could have bring something new, something fresh to this franchise. Anyway, even though the sequels were terribly weak, this first installment was actually a decent, fun and entertaining blockbuster and it is worth a look.


6/10