The plot follows a man and woman in an underground hive who discover the truth behind their living conditions and escape into the outside world.
Well, among all of Michael Bay's movies, I'd say this one is the most story-driven. …But that's not saying much! It still prioritises action and visceral thrills over the actual plot, and the plot itself gets increasingly predictable anyway.
The idea of containing a civilisation in an enclosed facility and feeding them a false past is nothing really new. Some aspects of this movie's take on that idea were interesting, especially the reason behind it all, but on the whole it just didn't win me over.
Like I said before, the movie clearly cares more about action than the plot, and the action itself is always that over-edited, disorientating Michael Bay action that I hate.
I also hated how, like several other Michael Bay movies, many lines are unnecessarily shouted.
Not to mention, the two leads' attempts to interact with the real world are just painful to watch.
But the movie really lost me quite early on, when our hero gets probes implanted in his eye, which I got the impression would record whatever he saw. And nothing ever comes of them!
To sum up, out of all Michael Bay's movies, this one is probably the least bad. It has a more defined premise than most of his other movies, but it still finds a way to be boring as hell.
My rating: 30%.
So this concludes my Michael Bay marathon. (I'm not watching the Transformers movies again!) Thank God!
So what was the point of putting myself through all this? To prepare myself for when his latest movie, Pain & Gain, comes out on DVD. As a critic, there's nothing better than to be proved wrong. Could Pain & Gain break the mould? Might I, with this one, finally say, "You know what? Michael Bay actually made a decent movie!" I doubt it! But at least now I'll know for sure if it does turn out to be his only movie that doesn't suck.
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