But it's a movie that only really works (for an adult viewer, anyway) if you are familiar with and emotionally attached to the characters in it before you see it. Otherwise, the characters just seem undeveloped, and the "big moments" like Optimus fighting his final battle with Megatron doesn't come of as especially epic and falls pretty flat. Believe me, there is a reason why critics disliked the movie (and unlike what Transformers fans often tend to say, it most certainly wasn't only because they thought the movie was to dark or intense for kids).