The camera is constantly swiveling and the violence — assault-weapon lasers, booming cannons, light torture, martial arts crunching moves, beating a rival with their own amputated limb and

For at least one generation of "Transformers" fans, the death of Optimus Prime in the 1986 animated feature "The Transformers: The Movie" was a formative moviegoing experience, if not a fully traumatic one.

Warning: the following contains spoilers for "Transformers One" With "Transformers One" opening in theaters Friday to great reviews and generating possible awards buzz, director Josh Cooley is already hinting at a possible trilogy: "There's definitely more story to tell,

That’s where the characters find themselves in “Transformers One,” the animated origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron. Up to this point in the movie, the film’s leads have not been in the possession of the cogs needed to transform.