Reviews

Decided to check out this indie film after seeing the poster at the IMDb recommendation section. Quite enjoyable. I thought i'd bring to light a surprise i had. About 10mins in the movie, at the motel room where Arturo is staying there is a TV commercial for Frank E Normo's travel porn program. it features clips of actual promo video for a popular Malaysian Nature Park destination. Images of the nature park were interspersed with porn clips and Franks narration. I doubt the director got clearance for this and the editor should really not use a clip with a website on it. Malaysian government won't be happy with this if they knew. The blatant use of the promo with no foresight to hide the origins of the clips is culturally and politically rude. I'm open minded enough to enjoy the film for what it is but many will not.

I was OK with the cartoon series but loved the feature length animation. The first live version (part 1) i would consider a decent action fantasy but this sequel is horrendous! I was irritated throughout the whole movie and couldn't wait for it to end. So many loose ends, terrible screenplay/script, bad acting, lousy action sequences seem to fill up the entire movie. If it was any other director, i could forgive but Michael Bay? Come on??! They already had the first one for practice and the countless epic movies he has completed??!. It seems they couldn't decide if they wanted to make it more of an action movie or cheesy romance or a baywatch flick (how much more Megan fox sex appeal do they want to wring out off her? - pout till you drop or please remove your bra so that the audience can feast on her boob 'action' ). It seems Hollywood's stereotype of portraying women as sex objects purveys. Definitely not a movie for the whole family to enjoy. If Megan fox appeal wasn't enough, they brought in another bombshell, Isabel Lucas to add another layer of icing. Sure i enjoy looking at them but this is A TRANSFORMERS MOVIE! The tempo of the movie was terrible. Fast Action scenes suddenly brought down to a snails pace inappropriately with over extended 'i love you' scenes. Just keep the flow going. Don't break it. The college scenes all seem out of place and a waste time. Finally, how could they introduce a Terminator-type robot/cyborg (Isabel Lucas) in a Transformer movie?

I watched the movie resulting from the above average user rating found here. I wasn't impressed by the trailer but IMDb's rating convinced me that it wouldn't be that bad. Boy, I was wrong. (Regardless of this comment, IMDb is still tops!) For this main reason, i was compelled to write a comment on this movie to warn others and drive down the over inflated rating. The whole movie is one big mess... from the ill defined characters, wooden acting, poor screenplay/script, terrible direction leading to poor editing... the list goes on. I watched this on DVD and had to fast forward most of it, not being able to endure the draggy pointless scenes but yet needed to know the ending. I particularly got annoyed with the screamers. Quite honestly, the protagonists could have just bought grade-A ear plugs. What a waste of talented Asian + western actors/actresses! I enjoy most of Dakota Fanning and Djimon Hounsou movies but this movie has simply degraded their talented work done previously. They are not alone in this as surrounding them were equally well known Asian actors (in Asia). I list this as one of their worst projects. I have seen the director's other work which were OK. However, with this release, I will probably be very cautious on watching his next one.