I am tired of people brushing this off as a "summer movie" and saying it was great. It was basically a big CGI exhibit. The CGI was definitely top notch and fun to watch... for about 20 minutes. So am I led to believe that a movie can consist of just great effects and completely neglect any substance at all? I mean, Star Trek had great effects yet still had an intelligible plot. It was fun to watch and had a story to keep you interested in it.
Shia LaBeouf's performance was pretty good but no actor really had a chance to shine since every scene had about 30 seconds of human dialog and then consisted mostly of slo-mo sequences of huge robots shooting each other while doing backflips.