Leonhart-PL

Very good creature feature made with taste, style and visual gusto.

Some visual narrative and camera work reminds me of early del Toro or Peter Jackson. There's a czechov's gun narrative tool used like it should be. Threre are comic books, there's father daughter relationship, quirky characters and delightful gore.

They don't make movies like that anymore.

Absolutely masterful in its simplicity, playful with its self awareness. Well acted all around with surprisingly solid lead girl.

Love me some Australian horror, and this one fully delivers.

If you like the above mentioned elements, you won't be disappointed.

So. I consider myself a movie fan, I'm 30, I am not a fan of Transformers franchise, I didn't watch cartoons, read some comics as a kid, had one toy.

Now. I saw it yesterday in IMAX, and wanted to sum up my experience in few bulletpoints considering how horrified I was with all the hate here. Not a fan of Bay too (I love The Rock though), but I like his films as I like to go to a theme park or a zoo - simple entartainment.

1. 3d was excellent. It was used for pure fun and joy of the viewer and not just to throw axes and shoot bullets into your eyes. Also I liked the brightness, and as a side note my eyes hurt much less than say on Avatar, and movie is almost 160 mins long.

2. F@ck the cardboard characters, I did not expect much and was there only for pure brainless kaboom action, which I got. The human baddie was weak though, and I still have no idea what Malkovich was doing there.

3. The girl. I see many of you demand Hellen Miren or Meryl Streep acting qualities from a chick in a Bay movie. I expect MY girl to be smart, intelligent and pretty, but in Bay movie she can be brainless idiot and seriously I do not care - so why so much whining? Don't understand.

4. The design. I see people bitch1n on the robots' design. What the f@ck where you expecting? Megatron transforming into giant gun? In my opinion, seeing how lazy production designers happen to be nowadays (see Skyline, or Green Lantern) the overall look of robots' devices, ships was t1ts.

5. Unlikable main protagonist. Wait... what? He was a pure everyman - b1tchy, frustrated and tired of how the world is constructed, looking for a job being pressed by parents and having issues in his relationship with a girl. I do not see any difference between him and guy posting rant SaM WUZ soooo 1RRRR1TAT1ING ZOMG WHAT A F@G GOT.

6. CGI. The composition was far superior to Avatar, I have not noticed any "low-res" textures that people complain about. I saw every dollar spent on this movie on the screen. Few scenes were done with so much taste that I was really proud of Bay (re: scene introducing Megatron, and dialog between Sentinel and Optimus about the latter being now the mentor since he's been on Earth long). The squirrel people jumping off the burning plane gave me goosebumps and that was what I expected from this ride (because I do not consider it a serious movie.)

Now. Having addressed these few issues I would also like to add I really loved the one sweet moment - in the highway chase scene there was a significant zoom on the rear view mirror of the car with standard OBJECTS IN A REARVEIW MIRROR MAY APPEAR CLOSER THAN THEY ARE text being shown with blurred bots in the background. Well it was a song by Meat Loaf for which Bay made a cool video and I truly loved this little trivia.

Closing my wall of text - and I know a lot shall not even bother to read it - I quietly ask you guys: do not overanalyze this. It's fun summer action flick, more of an experience than a film, a mixtape of cool action clishes for a tweleve year old in every one of us. Much better than the second one, and maybe even the first - but hey! stop analyzing! Cheer up and stop hating, life is better without hate isn't it?

PS. Buzz Aldrin scene was so touching and directed with great taste. Brilliant.

I remember watching it in the cinema back in 1998 with my girlfriend. I was 19, and starved for good, intelligent sf movie. I remember I wasn't paying too much attention to this movie, I watched it again later, now I can say I've seen it a few times on TV or DVD. I haven't seen the original US series, but the movie is a nice family flick, the bad thing is that it wasn't meant to be one. Le Blanc is quite cool as an action hero I was very surprised not seeing him doing some action flick in the next years. All in all it's a warm popcorn movie, with Gary Oldman, who is in a way catoonish villain, Will Hurt as a serious father gone too much interested in his work. Both are fine actors, both weren't themselves in this one. Special effects are quite nice for those times, though the creature animation is a bit corny. And one more thing - why for God's sakes they used this CGI-monkey-like creature?! It was way too sweet. Like the whole movie.