Quote Originally Posted by Defcon View Post
That review was balanced and reasonable. Alot of reviews seem to pick the movie to pieces so much so that it comes across as all negative.
There's plenty of holes in it but I came in expectign that. I wasn't expecting strong Transformers characterisation or anything. Just expected a brainless, soulless 2.5 hours of action with some good moments. I think if you expected more you would be disappointed.

That's not to say of course you shouldn't expect more. But I guess in my case, I was resigned to the fact that I knew it would be average and disappointing so I lowered my expectations accordingly to reduce disappointment.

It's sad but it works. If I wasn't a TF fan I don't think I would've been disappointed b/c going in all I wanted was splash, bang, gratuitous T&A and slapstick. And the vast majority of my non-TF friends have all enjoyed it.