I'd like to add my voice of dissent to the chorus of approval for this movie.

I watched it, with expectations low from ROF. Honestly, I expected almost nothing. And I was still disappointed.

Most of the problems from that movie remain. This time the movie is over-long, to boot. Apart from Optimus Prime, Sentinel Prime and Megatron, for the robots there was barely any characterisation. I could hardly recognise one robot from the other. Particularly when they're always running around, doing acrobatics and falling to pieces. The G1 cartoon is much derided for childishness and cliches, yet it did a far better job at characterisation than this mush. It's like the movie was only aimed at being very very fast and full of shooting and running. Without bothering with anything else, other than undergraduate jokes and smutty shots of the latest sex object in the film.

It seems the maker of the film doesn't understand that action and shooting doesn't make a good film. It needs a good story and good dialogue and interaction to make people get involved in it and care. I'm afraid this one failed utterly. I barely could tell who was getting destroyed let alone care about it.

The inclusion of the humans, trying to get more audience involvement I suppose, didn't work for me. It just seemed so unrealistic that they even lasted a second against the robots, particularly Sam when he was being thrown around on that cord by Starscream. And Megatron failing to kill his girlfriend like an ant, as he should have. It would have been better if as per G1 it was mostly focusing on the robots and leaving humans as cannon fodder!

Another gripe, I don't see the reason to give Transformers machine guns. They are aliens. What chance they would use projectile weapons as similar to ours as that? They are far advanced, and should be using lasers.

SPOILER

I did enjoy that Spock played Sentinel Prime, and his line 'the needs of the many must outweigh the needs of the few'. Classic nod to Star Trek.