Ever imagined a machine occupied a part of the moon and a einstein in the machine world created a teleport device to teleport humans and bring the machines to rule the world we live in, i.e the earth. This is the senseless and illogical drama with overly stuffed action packs and good chances to perform but it is too late. It fizzles out in terms of story and narration. Transformers , dark of the moon , directed by Micheal bay brings back the sequel to the action figures by Hasbro’s transformers.
After Revenge of the fallen, now it is the revenge of the creator of the machine calling himself as einstein, called the Centinus prime and now the already earthly present good machines autobots bring centinus to life. They did not know the intention of centinus. How Optimus is now going to save the world from the danger within?
Narration in the movie is like a school child listening to fairy tales. We hear optimus speaking about a lost war and a part of their ship, crashes into the moon and years later Neil amstrong and his associates find the ship in the moon. This story is highly imagined and I want the viewers to digest this part. Now my question is why only moon? Why not create a imaginary planet just like the star trek did. This is where the mistake went. People are not going to believe this crap. May be small children, who might say later to their children that I saw a movie where machine parts landed in the moon and Neil amstrong would have been a real hero then, to discover a rare part of a UFO in moon. History can be redefined. Completely illogical and senseless.
Character development in the movie is more single oriented. We see finally the main character in the movie, Sam witwicky has finally got a job amidst many try outs. He got it with a recommendation. Some characters disappear suddenly, and one character is already missing done by Megan fox and we have no idea what happened to her character? Some new characters in the movie, mainly two new ones, One is the CIA agent called as Mearing and another good looking handsome guy called as Dylan. Dylan may not be that handsome , of course only in looks but not inside. No need to mention about novel machines like a looping snake that digs buildings and also a bird that can be a computer inside any government office or personal places. They are ridiculous. Just for fun.
Performances in the movie looks a bit good. We see Shia labeouf , as usual shouting Optimus but something different here, He can leave tears at last. Rosie Huntington as Sam’s girlfriend, is no special. Patrick Demsey is now a cheap character and his talent is totally wasted in the movie. Nothing to speak about machines that rule the movie, they are the same and voices are also the same. Rest others did not have any special role.
Technical values are overly employed compared to the previous movies. We see a whole lot of 60 minutes buried with mindless and illogical action scenes, with lots of damage to the surfaces, buildings and also atmosphere. Cinematography and camera work have done a commendable job. But editing should have been better to trim the action scenes. It was irritating and looked overly burdened with senseless action on screen.
Bottom line: Despite brilliant technical values and standard performances, movie is dark , hollow and looked disoriented with senseless script and ineffective narration to make it acceptable. Dark of the moon will always be dark, among the series. I give C for the movie.
One word: SENSELESS AND ILLOGICAL SEQUEL.
Hmm… I wouldn’t critique it that harshly… I thought it at least deserves a B not a C. Although I agree with your comments about the senseless action scenes, I thought the plot was more developed in this movie as apposed to the others. I have never been a fan of the series myself, but I liked this one the best.
May I make a suggestion. Before you go to the movies to watch something, KNOW what you are going to watch. Transformers was originally a kids tv show meant to be action packed! You criticize the movie for playing to a child’s thought and being a “senseless and illogical drama with overly stuffed action…” Thats exactly what it is supposed to be and for a movie that had to pay respects to the die hard/old school transformer fans AND capture a new audience, I felt it did amazing work. The acting in it wasn’t the best acting but it did the job. All the characters from the past movies performed exactly as they were supposed to and kept the audience interested, while the change from Megan Fox to Rosie Huntington may not have been the best choice but they are both awful actress and are just there as a good looking face. The part about people not believing the parts on the moon there is a huge group of people that don’t believe the moon landing even happened. For people to believe the other extreme (finding a new alien life form or alien artifacts) of that is possible. We have thousands of movies where the audience has to imagine things and let the mind wander to new heights so to say to those thousands of movies that, that could never happen is just creating an excuse. Bay and Spielberg did a great job.