Every boy’s childhood dreams come to life in this movie. This is an epic stage of massive robots fighting for control of a distant world, and earth is the venue. We begin in Iraq where a mysterious chopper lands with no markings. Soon we learn, it’s no chopper at all.
Flash to southern California, a somewhat geeky young man begins to suspect all is not well with the used car he just purchased. Flash to the Pentagon where a team of analysts has been assembled to idenitify the signals that attempted to hack the military datalink in Iraq.
Led by the secretary of state (John Voigt, Midnight Cowboy) this team must discover who is trying to attack the US. But it’s not the US that is being attacked directly, it is a mysterious government organization known as Sector 7. They hold the key to both the autobots and decepticons saving or destroying their homeplanet. Soon Optimus Prime and Megatron show up, and the ultimate battle begins.
This is such a rich story to tell with the classic archetype characters, framed against some rather strange and eccentric human characters. An ensemble cast featuring John Turturro (One-eye Jimmy) and Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings) leads the way in this fun yet serious epic action comedy. All the cars are sweet GM models as well, so if you like cars, make this 2 a priority.
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