It's got a shit ton of caffeine in it but it doesn't make you hallucinate. Not sure where you live or how much it would cost to get it there before it went bad. Aside from Prime, Mirage, Primal and Airazor, there weren't any characters. I want what people are having when they claim this film had more bot characterization than before. Bumblebee was a glimpse into what could have been, but here we are. Pete Davidson was annoying and never funny. The generic shitty love interest is worse than Megan Fox and Rosie whatever she's called combined. Arcee and Wheeljack might as well have been removed. Unicron has no character beyond "grr I am evil" and whoever voiced him is no Orson Welles, that's for sure. The Terrorcons have extremely thin characterizations and are pretty much completely overshadowed by big daddy Unicron by the end. Primal isn't much better as he just fills in Airazors role after she dies and fights a bunch of generic gray nameless goons in the shitty third act, just like he probably would have done in the Bayverse. Airazor is only there to spout exposition and act as a studio mandated female character and is killed off shortly after her function in the plot is complete. Half of them might as well have not been in the film. Worse than that Optimus is never really challenged about his distrust of humans, he's just told by Primal that they're worth saving and completely changes his tune shortly after. There's literally a scene where Mirage just explains how Optimus feels for the audience. He starts off the film not trusting humans but we're never shown any meaningful reason why. Optimus Prime's "arc" is absolutely terrible. "I like this film because the Maximals are in it" "this film is good because Scourge is cool". ![]() It seems to me that most of the praise for this film is for the superficial stuff, i.e. To sum it up, Bumblebee's got the Touch.I've seen it twice now and as much as I hate most of the Bayverse, ROTB is the first Transformers film I'm never going to watch again. I'd like to see more directors present their takes on the franchise and go to places both familiar and new as long as Bay stays out of the directing chair. ![]() ![]() That being said, this is, in many ways, the Transformers movie I've been itching to see for a long time. The only thing that has me puzzled is the continuity as there's confusion over whether or not this is a reboot or a prequel given some conflicting elements. In fact, the portrayal of the Decepticons has improved not only can I tell them apart this time thanks to their varied designs and color schemes, but they're given more personality and actually live up to their name. While Bay's action focuses on huge zany explosion-fests that push believability and heavily involve the human military, here the action is smaller and much more personal, strictly Autobot vs Decepticon as it should be since it was what the franchise was built on. I love that this film is not only set in the 80s (when the show came out), but lives and breathes pop cultural references and classic songs from that era (including a great callback to Stan Bush). While having a predictable character arc, John Cena did a nice job with his role. Unlike the stuttering and super uptight Sam Witwicky, Charlie has a lot of spunk and pathos. The central focus is this friendship with many scenes that are charming, funny, and hit hard in the feels. He gives his films heart, thus the relationship between Charlie and Bumblebee feels natural. Knight knows what makes a film truly stick with people and that is in the story and how one tells it, something he excels at. Plot: Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld), a teen girl struggling to move on after her father's untimely death, encounters the fugitive Autobot Bumblebee and the two form a heartfelt bond, which will be tested as they are hunted by both the secretive Sector 7 and a couple of Decepticons. Sadly, he has the finesse of a brick to the face as his subsequent films for the most part are rusted pieces of scrap due to his crude style of filmmaking, lack of focus, and narrow demographic, leaving fans with only the 80s animated movie as the true "good one", that is until now. In 2007, Michael Bay showed the world that today's technology could bring the famed Transformers to life on the big screen.
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