I’m just going to the cut to the chase here. I love Transformers. The amazing animated series just made my childhood and the 1986 movie was absolutely kick-ass.
When I heard that they were making Transformers into a live-action film, I was slightly iffy about it, but I was impressed with the 2007 installment, and had high hopes for the second and third. I found the second to be middle of the road, pretty average, and then came the time of Dark of the Moon coming to our screens. I had heard that it was going to be better than the first two, so on the release date, I challenged these reviews.
Did it live up to those expectations? Hell no.
I could not believe how awful this film was. The character building was non-existent, the robots were ridiculous and the film time?! Oh my god, I literally fell asleep for about 10 minutes, it would not end!
Sam’s new love interest, Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) was just, pointless. She’s pretty yes, but in my opinion, if she wasn’t even in the film, nothing would’ve changed. All her character developed into was a screaming supermodel crawling around demolished buildings in her designer stilettos.
Sam was disappointing also. I respect Shia as an actor, and liked him in the previous installments but in this film, I just didn’t care if he lived or died to be honest. The main antagonist was supposed to be a Decepticon called Shockwave, who barely even had 15 minutes of screen time – that pissed me off big time.
I did enjoy a couple of elements though – the cleverness of the opening scenes with the prologue of all the events leading up till the present, and John Malcovich did a good job as Sam’s boss, even though he disappeared completely from the end of the second act onwards.
Overall, the film was a sloppy, disappointing mess, as if Bay had just came up with the idea and picked out of the bottom of his own lavatory.
This is great and made me laugh out loud. Sorry you were so disappointed. I figured it would suck majorly. :(
i totally agree. check out my review on it. so much critism
Demanding character building in a Transformers movie is like demanding car chases and explosions in The Social Network.
I couldn’t agree more! The character development was awful! The fight in Chicago was too confusing, I was getting lost as to which robots were good and which ones were bad, it was brutal. The chemistry between Shia and Rosie was nonexistent, I felt nothing between them and it showed on screen. I don’t even want to get started on the sloppy editing, this is one of the worst films I have seen in a while.
Well, there was a fire in Social Network, so that’ll count. We shouldn’t expect character development, its a Michael Bay movie, but at the very least he could try to… you know… make the movie good. I haven’t seen it, but I saw the faces of those watching as I was leaving the theater… and they looked quite pissed.
I guess I’m the odd one out. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think this movie is anything exceptional, but I found it as a significent improvement fromt the second installment (which was very disappointing, because I thought the first movie was actually very very good). I think it concluded the trilogy quite well despite little-to-no character development and a hardly above-average storyline (still much better than its predecessor though). And by far some of the most impressive CGI in film history, you have to give it that. Oddly enough, J.C., when I saw this film opening night, the entire theater erupted in applause at its end. And I was clapping along with them.
I agree, Manhattan, Dark of the Moon is good and my crowd dug it as well. It’s a rock solid action movie and exactly as silly and fun as a movie about giant robots fighting each other should be. And it’s HUGE. Bay has put together some of the most convincing special effects sequences I’ve seen in a while. We’ve gotten jaded to bad CGI recently, and even with that, the movie manages to be visually jaw-dropping.