Category: Movie Reviews

3 outta 5 The 7th movie in the Transformers live action movie series feels quite a lot like other ones, wherein Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has a lot of mayhem and some shallow lip service human characters. The film series has been a little topsy turvy in terms of quality; the first movie is…

3 outta 5 Transformers: The Last Knight is what one would expect from a Transformers movie, it’s too damn long, a dopey and unnecessarily convoluted plot, really loud acting and giant robot smashing.  The movie skips around so much from different locales and tones that it almost has the vibe of an abstract, crazy art…

3 outta 5 Michael Bay, director of The Rock, Pearl Harbour, two Bad Boys and now four Transformers movies, defiantly in his last Transformer outing, Dark of the Moon, broke his toys and walked away, seemingly forever.   Until, that is, his most recent entry, Transformers: Age of Extinction.  This instalment doesn’t reach the heights of…

3 out of 5 There is entertainment in the bloated, tonally confused and downright excessive threequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon.  The script isn’t as clever as the first flick which slowly revealed the giant transforming robots however its story is much more coherent than the second one.  It also provides the requisite amount of…

3 out of 5 Transfomers: Revenge of the Fallen suffers from sequel bloat.  By being bigger it loses what made the original special.  The flick bogs down in tedious plot diversions and some really lame characters, but what sells Revenge is unhinged destructiveness.  Are we so cynical that we can’t enjoy a three-story robot running…

4 out of 5 For some reason, “summer blockbuster” has become a bit of a dirty word.  It implies all flash and no substance. With Transformers, directed by Mr. All-Flash And No Substance Himself, Michael Bay, and its based on a Hasbro toy-line, one would assume that it’s a typical summer blockbuster with “all flash…