There's not much to say about an action movie directed by Michael Bay. It's going to be loud and explosive as it functions much like a porn movie. There will be some plot throughout the movie but what plot there is, is only filler material for the action scenes, in that regard a Michael Bay film is a porn movie where the sex scenes are replaced with action scenes.
There is no plot to speak of in this movie and if you like action scenes as directed by Bay, you will like this movie because these scenes can go on for 10 - 15 minutes easily and longer as the movie nears it's run time of 3 hours, which is easily one hour to long. The plot and story line of this movie makes the last three movies look like literary master pieces by comparison - I'm not joking by saying that either. I could harp on and on about the plot but I figure why do it - this is a Bay film. If you're looking for plot why are you seeing a Bay film at all?
I didn't go see it for the plot or story - I went to see it to spend time with my wife - who likes Bay films - and I had a good time because I knew what I was walking into before the movie started. There were plenty of action scenes and plenty of shots of Victoria Secret models who were just in one scene for the sake that they were Victoria Secret model. I remember one scene were an elevator opened and a Victoria Secret model was standing because I mean of course why wouldn't a Victoria Secret model being standing there in that sort of run down, crumbling building? There were other shoots of women running, ducking, sitting, or just standing there who just happened to be Victoria Secret models in that one spot when something was needed to be on screen besides a Transformer.
I will say this for this Transformer movie, it had the best of all the main characters out of the last three movies. The only characters I remember and really liked from the first three movies are the two military characters played by Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson, other than that the other main character seemed to fall by the way side in leaps and bounds. Only those movies didn't give those two guys enough scenes to do anything. This movie had way better characters but didn't give them anything with story or plot to work with otherwise I think this could have been a seriously good movie.
Another question I have is why did the Dinobots only show up at the end of the movie? Why not have them there sooner and use them to build on the mythology and world of the Transformers? Question I would love answers to. This is one thing I've never understood from this series. Why they never built or even attempted to construct any sort of world building or mythology for the Transformers? Everything seemed so spontaneous and obviously random. If they had even attempted to do this I think I could have at least respected the series but not attempt was even made. I look at the movie Pacific Rim as a good example of world building and creating mythology - yes the movie is cheesy and over-the-top but at least Del Toro attempted to create a real world, just like he always does.
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