Young teenager, Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 25 wins & 50 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
The movie rages on for a hundred and fifty minutes and then just stops, pausing for the next sequel.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
29 Jun 2009
rotten:
Much of the movie is computer-generated hash, weightless even with nonstop BOOMS and METAL GROANS and THUDS.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
6 Jul 2009
rotten:
It adds up exactly as you'd think if you've seen a moving picture before; the motivations are simple while the laughs pound you about the head and face.
– Laremy Legel,
Film.com,
6 May 2011
rotten:
I would like to think that even if I was 14, either in body or spirit, I would still find this film an impossibly, incomprehensibly overlong and cacophonous bore.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
9 Jun 2014
rotten:
The movie is like the play date from hell, the kind where a crew of children reduce your home to rubble and conduct endless bouts of loud war on the living-room floor while you ponder the propriety of opening a bottle of wine.