Now, as I said most people do not care for Michael Bay movies, especially those of the Transformers series, but I'm going to go on and tell you, I enjoy the series very much, especially this entry. This film is a good film because we get a long introduction to things, it doesn't just jump into the mess of explosions, although the opening might count as part of the explosions, but I'm talking about after that. We get a good introduction to all of the characters and the intense opening gets a good explanation thanks to the writers. Since, this is kind of an origin story we get good background information on the Autobots and Decepticons and why they are on Earth looking for the Allspark. We also get a good introduction with the human characters and good character development.
From human characters I introduce you to the cast, like you don't already know them anyways, and tell you how good a job they did. First, we have Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky, the kid who holds the key to everything, and he actually does a pretty good job and I enjoyed his performance, he was funny, emotional, and energetic, although sometimes too much, but he was having explosions going off all around him. We also have Megan Fox, who probably gives us her best performance so far of her career in this movie, and she is better than the girl who shows up in the third film. Plus she is the eye candy here too, but I believed her performance and I think she did a good job. We also have Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson, the helpful military men who help save the day, who also gives us serious and sometimes funny performances. There is also John Turturro and Anthony Anderson who are there as the very funny comic relief. We also have a couple veteran actors playing two different serious and funny roles with Jon Voight as the Secretary of Defense and Kevin Dunn as Sam's father. So, the cast is really a great cast and does a great job over all.
In a movie like this, especially with Michael Bay as director, you need some great visual effects and that is what we get. The visual effects group did a great job with the robots, explosions, and the epic fight scenes, in fact they did so good that they got nominated for an Oscar. Also, this movie has a lot of stuff going on in it, especially when the robots transform and when the fight scenes take place. Those things take a lot of work and the teams responsible for that did a fantastic job mixing and editing the sounds with the effects and editing of the film. All of that mixes perfectly together to give us a masterpiece for the eyes and ears.
The technical aspects of the film are obviously great and I also believe that Bay himself did a good job, although his movies are not masterpieces in themselves they are fun to watch. Of course he didn't write the film, we have Alex Kurtzmen and Robert Orci who, to me, wrote a good, not great, screenplay and story to show us the origin of the Autobots, Decepticons, and human characters. They did it with seriousness and humor and it all mixed well, although sometimes it goes overboard with the humor, but it doesn't hurt the film that much. What we have here is a good first film in a franchise that is still going, a good Michael Bay film, but I could be biased to that because I like him, great visual effects, a great cast that works well together, an entertaining screenplay, and a well scored film too. I always have to mention the score because that aspect can make or break a film, music in film is always important, but of course you know that!
3.5/4 Stars.
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