Yesterware

Let me start by saying that I really really wanted this to be a good movie. I was really looking forward to the amp up that Michael Bay had been promising on his website. When the novelization came out in May I had it read the day after it was released. These novelizations almost always have minor differences from the finished movie (presumably because they were based on an early version of the script). While reading the novelization, I began to worry a little, but I kept that mostly to myself. I had no desire to spoil anything, and the text leaves a lot for visual interpretation. I went to the midnight showing in IMAX hoping for the best, and went home wishing I had caught a matinee at a regular theater the next day instead. It wasn't that the movie was particularly bad, it just wasn't the movie that I stood in line for 2 hours to see. Guilty of the same crimes as the Matrix sequels, this one will probably go down as a chapter best forgotten in the minds of most hardcor