Eric Stevenson A mockbuster is a film that is clearly a ripoff of another film. I really do wonder why the creators don't just sue the people who ripped them off. There have been much more frivolous lawsuits. "The Amazing World Of Gumball" did an hilarious parody of "Miracle Star". Anyway, this movie really does make the Transformers films look good. At least those had fairly good special effects.The special effects are as horrible as expected, especially with how they show the robots killing people with lasers. It's just these blue streams that leave holes in their heads. I remember near the end how they say that there are other survivors, but the budget is obviously too low to hire enough people to show them. At one point, someone says that the robots have destroyed most of the world and we just cut to a regular looking sky. Some destruction. The acting is truly horrible.I barely remember the first one, but this is actually a prequel. If there's such a massive invasion, why do we only see two or three robots at one time? Because the budget couldn't afford to put more in! This has so little effort put into it, it seems like it's doubtful to even call it a movie at all. It's mostly just people walking around. It doesn't even have two minutes of good action scenes like the Nostalgia Critic foresaw in "The Last Knight". 1/2*

scld23 this review contains some spoilers it was not a good movie at all relay once you think about it. why ? because it barely act's like a cheep knock i think.as in it only acts like it has 3 things from the real transformers the theme of the decepticons, they try to destroy the planet/try to take it over and they can transform1...this it was it need's i think there need's to be the autobot like transformers and the decepticons the autobots help the humans and the decepticons try to destroy the humans there needs to be better back story for that knock off for the robots 2... the robots can't talk human 3... the bad guys win (i mean as in they succeed in making it harder to live on planet earth and there for causing a underground resistances that rip off terminator movies) 4... the ending RIPS OFF from the terminator movies AGAINso it need's to feel more like a knock off better acting etc(ps i'm 16 and a transformer fandom whore so if you didn't do a complete review i'm sorry my first review hope you find it useful and i spelled ever thing right etc)

lyfjaberg I was going to give this movie 8/10, putting it on par with ZOMBIE OUTBREAK, BUGS BUGS BUGS OH NO, and THE English PATIENT - all strong entrants in their respective genres.This would have been because Bruce Box-lightener is a personal hero of mine. As a collector of white and/or empty boxes, a man who spends his time making boxes lighter (in either sense of the word!) is really making my day. Every single day.I owe Bruce so much.However, during this film his character makes an uncharacteristically stupid decision to kill himself in order to destroy and already incapacitated Transmorpher. This is unbelievable. YES, Bruce attempted suicide in Babylon 5, but ALSO this was for a good reason AND he was brought back to life. Was it so much to ask for him to be brought back to life in this movie?! I can only assume they stopped being able to pay him his monies, which would be substantially large amounts of monies, as he is very talented.I cannot believe a man like this exist: both lightening boxes and also acting so well.I am so sad about this movie I had a little funeral for Bruce. I put a very small and very light box in a toy helicopter and it was sad.This movie breaks your heart. Stay away unless you are an emo and like to feel bad.

dave-847 After watching the first half of this tedious flick I am convinced that there should be a new class of distribution worse than DTV (Direct To Video) I propose the new designation should be DTDB (Direct To Dollar Bin). This movie definitely belongs there. As others have noted the special effects are worse than atrocious. They could have used an etch-a-sketch and gotten better results. I can only assume that Bruce Boxleitner owed someone a large favor to have appeared in this production.This production is so bad, it even falls below the standards for the Sci-Fi Channel made for TV stuff. The only way this could have been worse is if it was animated, and the cels were drawn using crayons.The basic story concept, as you can imagine from the title, is basically the same as "Transformers", a far better movie than this could ever hope to be.If you wish to see how movies should NOT be made then rent this. With luck you'll find it in the dollar bin and expense will be minimal. The best use for this CD would be as a target at a rifle range.