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A driver don't pick the cars. Mmm-mm. Cars pick the driver. It's a mystical bond between man and machine.

No 309 – Transformers Director – Michael Bay The film begins: Before time began there was The Cube. Hmmm…. Not the most promising of opening lines. Hardly smacks of intelligent script writing. We then sit through quite a lot of exposition. For a film which has essentially been designed as a showcase for Michael Bay ’s Awesome Explosions and a film which doesn’t have a particularly extensive plot (2 groups of people are trying to get a thing. Those two groups are enemies) they seem to have picked the most complicated macguffin in the history of the world. There are about 4 scenes in which people just sit around and explain stuff. Using nonsense language. There is the Allspark – a giant cube which can transform into a considerably smaller cube – which made life. Then there was a war to gain control of the Allspark between two robot factions. Then the Allspark ends up on Earth and all chaos ensues in shiny metal explosions and… And… Seriously? Empire readers? What the...