TRANSFORMER!!!!

Transformer menyerang Malaysia. Sekali lagi buat ke ribuan kalinya, Hollywood meracuni fikiran bumi manusia dengan formula beracunnya. Semua orang Malaysia teruja dengan kehadiran Transformer. Panggung wayang penuh sepanjang hari menyingkirkan semua filem lain apatah lagi filem tempatan yang nyawa nyawa ikan seperti DIVA.

Apa istimewanya transformer? Ceritanya? CGI nya? atau...robotnya..? Tapi realitinya hanya satu, apa saja makanan tidak berkhasiat dari Hollywood kita kunyah dan telan tanpa bismillah...

INI ADALAH SEBAHAGIAN PETIKAN ULASAN ROGER EBERT - PENGKRITIK FILEM TERKENAL HOLLYWOOD TERHADAP FILEM TRANSFORMER YANG DISANJUNG SEBAHAGIAN BESAR RAKYAT MALAYSIA

Everything comes down to an epic battle between the Transformers and the Decepticons, and that's when my attention began to wander, and the movie lost a potential fourth star. First let me say that the robots, created by Industrial Light and Magic, are indeed delightful creatures; you can look hard and see the truck windshields, hubcaps and junkyard stuff they're made of. And their movements are ingenious, especially a scorpionlike robot in the desert. (Little spider robots owe something to the similar creatures in Spielberg's "Minority Report," and we note he is a producer of this movie.) How can a pickup truck contain enough mass to unfold into a towering machine? I say if Ringling Brothers can get 15 clowns into a Volkswagen, anything is possible.
All the same, the mechanical battle goes on and on and on and on, with robots banging into each other and crashing into buildings, and buildings falling into the street, and the military firing, and jets sweeping overhead, and Megatron and the good hero, Optimus Prime, duking it out, and the soundtrack sawing away at thrilling music, and enough is enough. Just because CGI makes such endless sequences possible doesn't make them necessary. They should be choreographed to reflect a strategy and not simply reflect shapeless, random violence. Here the robots are like TV wrestlers who are down but usually not out.
I saw the movie on the largest screen in our nearest multiplex. It was standing room only, and hundreds were turned away. Even the name of Hasbro, maker of the Transformers toys, was cheered during the titles, and the audience laughed and applauded and loved all the human parts and the opening comedy. But when the battle of the titans began, a curious thing happened. The theater fell dead silent. No cheers. No reaction whether Optimus Prime or Megatron was on top. No nothing. I looked around and saw only passive faces looking at the screen.
My guess is we're getting to the point where CGI should be used as a topping and not the whole pizza. The movie runs 144 minutes. You could bring it in at two hours by cutting CGI shots, and have a better movie.