R.I.P. Chester Bennington from Linkin Park Their song, "What I've Done," plays in the end credits of this movie.

Is Tranformers great art?!? Not at all... Is Transformers, by any means, a classic?!? Not really, no... Is it fun?!? Hell Yes!!!!!!!! You can say whatever you want about Michael Bay and his military fetish, his obnoxious explosion and slow motion, and love of beautiful people, but no one can deny that the man makes engaging and fun movies. Transformers is one of those... It might make me simple, but I enjoy this one. I take it out sometimes and make jokes about Shia LaBeouf, enjoy the explosions, and just have fun. You may call it one of my guilty pleasures...

Bay set the stage for some promising sequels. Except he shouldn't have came back each time. Since he offered nothing but just more explosions and a longer film each sequel. I would have liked to see a different director take on it. Spielberg doesn't care each film gets worse and worse. Since they make him a lot of money to fund better films.

I think for an action movie this film is okay but for a Transformers movie it leaves a lot to want! I get this is kind of what Michael Bay does but I've never been a fan of his heavy use of the military and U.S. government in stories as I feel they take too much of the focus. In general the humans in this film eat up too much of the screentime, I'd be fine with this if they were fleshed out better but they really aren't and it was kinda grueling to get through the first hour of the film. The Transformers aren't very well fleshed out either imo I feel like they don't get enough dialogue and some of them barely get enough screentime, and for me personally I watched this to see the Transformers. Throughout this whole collection I find there is also a problem with the way character's deaths are handled too, whenever an autobot or decepticon dies I feel like the way it's done is really underwhelming, lacks gravity, and in some cases you could easily miss if you weren't paying attention. A positive I will give is the CGI is quite nice and I like the autobot's designs but I feel like the decepticons were wayyy too gray and it was hard to tell who was who at first, I don't really have a problem with them doing new stuff with their designs but I would've liked if they were more distinguishable.

With a mix of action-comedy and things blowing up Transformers turned out to be an entertaining blockbuster to watch. Michael Bay did a really good job bringing the robots to life. They looked as real as a CGI robot could possibly be. Because this is a Michael Bay film you can expect the acting and story line to be subpar. Bay's true talent is making great action scenes and he delivers them well. Still five years later the action in this movie gives me thrills every time I watch it.