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by Mags, 8 July 2007
TRANSFORMERS (2007)
If you like IN YOUR FACE, LARGER THAN LIFE filmmaking, this movie will rock your world!
There’s no subtlety, no nuances, just good old testosterone-pumped action, but action that wraps you up in a rollercoaster ride from the first second to the last. This is text book story telling with perfectly executed film making techniques and it’s hard not to have a great time marveling at the ingenious transformations on the screen.
We could have done without the grand sunset speech from Optimus Prime, because corny speeches are like stumbling blocks on the racetrack of believability. In the packed Singapore theatre on Sneak Preview night, there were loud groans that signaled audience members’ bumping headfirst into the uninspired soliloquy of Optimus Prime’s “sermon on the hill”.
But isn’t the point of the movie this?
Even if the Good Guy Transformer Robots can only transform into American Cars whilst the Bad Guy Robots seem to have no holds barred, transforming into all manner of super high tech machinery that seemingly outgun and and outpace the Good Guys - that is to say, even with the technical superiority the bad guys always seem to possess, Good triumphs.
[Note to Director Michael Bay: Better to toss out a few pithy one liners, like “I’ll be back” or “Hasta la vista, Baby”.]
But as a summer blockbuster movie, I give this movie two thumbs up for pumping out some pretty amazing IN YOUR FACE ACTION.
After the applause at the end of the movie, I turned to my neighbor and said, “I think I might just have to buy the transformer toys!” A fleeting thought… because I am most definately NOT a fan of plastic toys, but that’s the power of this film.
Happy Summer everyone! - Mags
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