Friday, July 20, 2007

Transformer the movie

Never really a transformer fan myself, it was part of my child's routine to watch this, along with many others like He-Man: The master of the Universe, Silverhawk, Thundercats and the likes... then later it evolves to Baja Hitam, Robotech, then onwards to Initial D, slamdunk with now a loyal fans of hentai..... *cough* anyway, transformer wasn't really my cup of tea, those blocky robots aren't anywhere as cool as Gundam and Macross anyway, but 2 weeks ago my perception changed.


It was on GSC at Pacific 2 weeks ago, have to say this is by far the best movie I've seen for 2007. I did not read any review and critic's comment before going, and I was purely expecting a skirmish type of engagement fight between Optumus and Megatron with the typical "You slap me, I slap you back" kind of battle, what started out in the first 10 minute is just simply amazing, Qatar airbase got pawned by just 1 Decepticon unit to oblivion...


The aircraft used in the movie is also quite sentimental as there are the latest air force F-22 Raptor, the symbolic AC-130H with an integrated howitzer artillery piece used during Afghanistan & Iraq war, and the cute A-10 Thunderbolt II, which was my all time favourite. Most of the aircraft does not show in any major film and their appearance really make the DVD worth getting :)


So therefore not all anime --> CGI animation movie sux, this one definately spells exception. Overall this movie deserve a 9/10 rating with good action, plot and casting all together. It wouldn't be surprise if this made it to some of the nomination later.