Transformers One (2024)
4/10
Starring
Chris
Hemsworth
Brian
Tyree Henry
Scarlett
Johansson
Keegan-Michael
Key
Directed
by Josh Cooley
I have
to say this movie was underwhelming. I had some idea at the back of my mind
that I was going to like it, since it was now an animation and there is very
little you cannot achieve when you are doing animation, but I was in the end disappointed.
The main problem is how the story develops. I am not going to lie and say that
I am fully into the Transformer franchise stories and understand many of the origin
tales. This is the first time I am seeing this particular origin story of the
hate between Optimus Prime and Megatron, when I naturally believe that the hate
was not personal it was just you are an Autobot and I am a Decepticon. The
change from friends to enemies came about from a betrayal that has nothing to
do with both, and I felt the movie could have done better with that plot.
I did
not enjoy the graphics at all, and I felt the plot was weak and will not help
the franchise win more viewers. That said, the voice acting was good in the
movie, but that was it.
The
plot is about two friends working in the mines of Cybertron. Cybertron is the
home of the transformers, who can transform into vehicles. But these two friends
ever since they came online (which signifies birth in their world) were without
transformation cogs. In fact, it turns out many come online without these cogs
and are made to work in the mines of Cybertron, mining Energon for their
planet.
These two friends
Orion Pax and D-16 are mine workers, and Pax always sees them being more and
does everything he can to be more than just a mine worker, especially obsessed
with finding the Matrix of Leadership, but without cogs there is little to no
way that can happen. The leader of Cybertron is a Prime called Sentinel,
Sentinel is the only surviving Prime left in Cybertron after the others were
killed by the alien invaders. Sentinel goes to the surface of their planet to fight
off the alien invaders and to look for the Matrix of Leadership, something he
has been doing for some time but never achieving.
Pax pulled one of
his stunts and got he and D-16 noticed by everyone. This caused a moral boast of
other mine transformers that they can be more. This did not go well with their
mine leader Darkwing, the reason for this will be best if you watch the
animation yourself if you are interested.
Darkwing reassigned
them to garbage disposal, wanting them to be there forever, it was there they
met B-127. But Pax discovers a message from one of the dead Primes, and he
convinced D-16 and B-127 to follow him to the surface to find the message’s
origin. There is where they find another Prime, who tells them that they were
all supposed to have cogs, and no transformer comes online without one. Now they
know there is more going on in Cybertron that is being kept from them. We can
see from here that Orion Pax will become Optimus Prime, and D-16 will become
Megatron.
As I said, I did
not feel this animation as much as I should, and that is why I am not surprised that
it did not do well in the box office and has some average ratings.
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