Transformers (2007)
Transformers (2007)
Tagline: Their War. Our World.
And, why the review? The transformers visuals always mesmerized me, and it is from #scifi genre. I didn’t want to watch it in movie hall, and I missed it an umpteen, umpteen number of times on TV screen, always switching it on midway. But last week, in the middle of afternoon, I had to finish the uncompleted.
The story is kinda wafer thin. The movie starts at a slow pace, a tack on the life of earthlings, centering around Shia LaBeouf aka Sam Witwicky and his day-to-day nothings. It appears as though planet Earth is under alien invasion as evinced by disruptions and attacks on military battalions and control centers world-wide. The aliens go by names bots, trons, and cons, and it is made quite clear that, they ve far superior processing powers, hacking skills and trans-formative functionality.
Midway, we realize that two races from Transformer clan are battling it out on planet Earth, one of them, the -tron clan is earth friendly and does not want to harm the humans, but the other clan -cons whose ancestor visited Earth, and was held hostage is hell bent on avenging and colonizing Earth. Sam Witwicky is linked to this battle, as it was his grandfather who made contact with past alien. And, Megan Fox aka Mikaela Banes is obviously, the love interest of Sam.
As for the critique, the movie sucks bigtime as a science-fiction narrative. There’s nothing deep, no questions raised, no thinking involved. Even in terms of movie-making the script is cliched, the dialogues scrappy, and the story a drag. With that said, the big winners are the transformers themselves, the way they transform on screen. The visual effects are stunning and flawless, wants you own them, they are so cooool! As for the cast, it’s amazing who Shia LaBeouf, manages to enact his roles convincingly in most of his movies ( Indiana Jones, Wall Street etc) , even though you wouldn’t give him a chance at the outset. He does not have a great physique (Arnold schwarzenegger, Stallone), nor good-looking by Hollywood standards (Brad Pitt, Leonardo De Caprio) looks mismatched with his heroines (Megan Fox), but saves the day in his own way. Megan Fox alone, hot on screen, is more than enough to provide all the oomph and eye-candy throughout the movie. No wonder, she’s labeled Angelina-Jolie-in-the-making! Sigh!
Didn’t like the movie, but would love to have one those transformers! If you ‘ve whale of time, a once-playable video game.
Meta (from rottentomates)-
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hr. 20 min.
Genre: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Michael Bay
Release Date: Jul 3, 2007
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