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[Alex]

Now I'm afraid of overselling it. But it really did work for me.

In terms of just being a spectacle it most reminded me of when I first saw The Matrix, having gone in completely cold on opening day simply because a trusted friend said "trust me, see it."

The biggest criticism you see in reviews is about the story being cliche and simple. And it is, but as I've said many times that can be done well (there really aren't many new stories under the sun) and I think it was done well, could have been better.

The big kicker for me is that I've always hated watching pixels fight on screen. That's the biggest flaw in the Transformer movies. But for a 20-minute battle scene in which not one thing on screen is real I was tense, agog, and rapt.

I fear for what this will unleash on us as movie goers since I suspect few will do it so adeptly but when I woke up this morning I was seriously thinking about walking across the street for the 9am show.