Gordon Dahr

I caught the Maximals with my son. But, like He-Man, Transformers, Ultron, and most of the kids' cartoons, they were on Saturday or weekday afternoons ... I was working. First off, they completely screwed with the original timeline without the usual "multiverse" caveat (I'd imagine that's coming, though). The action sequences were good as well as the special effects. The acting kind of sucked and the lines were like a copy-paste screen play. Maybe with the screenwriters strike they used an AI to generate a script? Elena was an entire waste of screen time, especially since she was supposed to be the token female "hero" all movies have to have today, and the whole "race for the key" was predictable beyond measure. It pissed me right off when the two humans are supposed to be getting to the end of the bridge (while their team is on top killing and dying to clear the way) and they keep stopping to talk when there'sNOTHING in front of them! Male character was so great I can't even remember his name (had to look it up), but definitely was living up to his military reputation as "not a team player" and not reliable to get the job done and unable to focus on task at hand. Until the end, when he becomes Iron Man (complete with many of the iconic poses of Iron Man). I'm sorry, I could have slept through that 2 hours. No one likes to re-watch movies like I do, but that won't be one. I really liked the previous Transformer movies (and I've watched them over again lots and, so expected more), but it was hard to believe Micheal Bay was even involved in this, let alone produced that one. I can totally see why, out of 1,000+ audience reviews, it only had a 4.1 rating. Mine won't help that. I'm more in line with the critics, lots left out