Yet that's just it. When the best you can say is "it could have been worse" (and I'll see your Shayman and raise you Uwe Boll on that front
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), or say that you had to lower your expectations to enjoy something, then it's nothing to write home about.
Furthermore if a decent enough treatment had've been in play to begin with then I can't see why the likes of Ridley Scott or James Cameron wouldn't have wanted to be on board.
Which every way you cut it; while it might make for a great action trilogy featuring giant transforming robots, it's not the best storytelling out there in terms of TF lore.