Transformers - Dark of the Moon Review

Transformers - Dark of the Moon

Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, John Turturro, Rosie Huntington-Whitely, Patrick Dempsey, and John Malkovich

Michael Bay. People call him the dictator. The director with a high list of demands. Megan Fox parted ways with him before the filming of Transformers 3 because of his high demands. However, these demands do equal results in his movies, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon is no different. You need to be in great shape to survive the long drawn out action scenes that are sprinkled through out the movie. The action scenes that add an extra hour or more to the run time of all his films. But it makes the perfect summer blockbuster.

It takes place 3 months after Sam graduates from his Ivy League college. Sam struggles to find a job having no experience besides saving the world twice. Shia LaBeouf is great as always as Sam Witwicky, personal friend of the Autobots. Sam lives with his new beau, Carly Spencer who replaces Megan Fox’s character (In the script it’s said that Makayla breaks up with Sam and leaves him). Carly is played by Victoria Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whitely (She’s even given some slow motion scenes that could be worthy of a lingerie commercial). As the movie continues you on, Sam is once again faced with saving the world and salvaging his romantic relationship. You watch as some of your favorite Autobots are destroyed, and not brought back to life. You get some great supporting performances from John Malkovich, and Patrick Dempsey who pull Transformers 3 out of the same path as its predecessor.

Transformers 3 is a great 2 hr and 34 minute action packed adventure. With enough explosions, and swinging robots to keep any adrenaline junky happy. The downside is that script is very empty, and at times not even there. Character development is good for the first 45 minutes but begins to fizzle out into just action sequences by the end of the movie and then a Linkin Park song hits the theatre speakers as you would come to expect.

In hindsight they should of incorporated Bumblebee more. Not so much with saving Sam, because that was the one part of Bumblebee’s role that stayed. But more as a character to help develop Sam. Instead, Optimus had most of the screen time. He did however, offer his famous lines of advice that opened, drove, and ended the movie. All in all, it still a movie to see. The first Transformers movie in 3D, and something that can keep your eyes occupied.

5.5 out of 10