ReservoirAngel said:
I'd been told (never actually done any research of my own into it) that Kane was essentially a mystery film about what some guy's last words meant. If you know the answer already, a mystery will always fall flat.
Not at all, and there's a massive plothole there.
The film is more about the rise and fall of humanity, or that's how I saw it.
Transformers has a myriad of problems; but it can be boiled down to three.
1) The title characters are secondary characters.
2) No effort is made to make us care for them.
3)
Star Wars: Prequel Syndrome. You're compensating for lack of interaction with a multiplex of action.
Like
The Social Network,
The Phantom Menace and
Vampires Suck - it's a good film with a bad script directed by someone who doesn't like the premise. And because it's been made that way, you can never go back to a time where that isn't the current incarnation.