Transformers One's reviews
Media reviews
Slashfilm
Transformers One is the breath of fresh air the franchise has tried to achieve for years, a movie that feels new and unique but also familiar and fitting with the rest of the franchise.
Roger Ebert
As its subtly confident title suggests, it carries itself as if nobody had ever made a Transformers movie before. It's so earnest, bringing notes of freshness and innocence to a prequel that, by all rights, shouldn't have had any.
Empire
There\'s slightly more than meets the eye with Transformers One. While the art style is sometimes off-putting, its ideas are interesting enough to make it a decent addition to the franchise.
Indiewire
For all of the garishly shiny lens flairs that gleam off our heroes' metallic heads, Transformers One feels rusted over, offering a predictable, formulaic product as generic as its "working title that never got dropped" name.
Screen Crush
The best vocal performance in Transformers One by far comes from Brian Tyree Henry, who puts so much feeling into D-16 rapid transformation into the menacing Megatron that you almost buy that he goes from Orion's loyal bestie to his sworn mortal enemy in the span of about 10 minutes.