Transformers: Dark of the Moon makes you realise just how awful TF2: ROTF was.
I went to see transformers 3 on thursday after school. First off, i will give you my reaction: mixed.
Alot of other reviewers have given this film a negative review, but then again alot of reviewers have given it a positive review. I loved the film! I thought it was just what a transformers film should be. Giant robots blowing things up. Anyone going in the cinema expecting the next true grit or black swan, then get the hell out of the cinema! Anyone with common sense knows that this isn't going to be a character-based drama with a small budget. Note- this review is spoiler-free, but i apoligise if you find a mild spoiler in there. Positive points first off:
The idea: I thought the whole 'space-race conspiracy' thing was very clever. Sure, an 8 year old could have come up with it but they couldn't make it engaging and exciting. Especially when they entered Sentinel Prime's damaged ship on the moon. The CGI in there was beautiful, which brings me onto my second point.
The special effects: As always, the effects in Michael 'Boom-Boom' Bay's films are top notch. Well dont to ILM! (the effects company) Also, the 3D. Now, as some of you may know i despise 3D on a whole. It's a money-making scheme. Guess you can blame Avatar for that! The opening scene is our first look at the battle on Cybertron that led to it's demise and the Autobots and Decepticons to part ways. A beautiful sequence, like the mechanical equivalent to Pandora. Even before the film started i knew the 3D was gonna be good. It was when the Paramount logo came on the screen in 3D. Also, the end battle sequence (which lasted an amazing hour long) was amazing, but too long. The 3D was half converted (the movie people make it 3D during editing but its really bad and if you see a movie with bad 3d then it would have been converted) and half filmed in 3D (avatar), and i could easily spot the converted parts. There was an awesome part near the end where Shockwave's giant pet robot snake wrapped itself around a skyscraper and sliced it in half, with sam, carly and some soldiers trapped inside. wow!
Now onto my favourite part, the negatives!
Rosie Huntington Whitely: Well, she was better than Megan Fox! But still, shouldn't be an actress. Actully, she was there for eye-candy. As soon as i saw the first modern-day shot i realised she was just there to look good. (BTW, the shot in question was a lingering shot of the back of her legs slowly making their way up the hallway) I wish that Michael (boom-boom) Bay had hired somebody like Gemma Arteton for the role! (She was actully in the running for the role before rosie was cast.)
Supporting cast: To be honest, i only liked 2 members of the supporting cast. Frances McDormand, who played an important role in N.E.S.T and hated sam, and Patrick Dempsey, carly's boss and also a villain role. I wanted to slap them both all throughout the film! They played their roles very well. Onto the people i didnt like, which was most of them. Ken jeong especially, who played a collegue of sams at his workplace. He knew lots about the decepticons (for unexplained reasons) and (minor spoiler alert!) was killed by an annoying messenger decepticon that was in the whole film to me distaste. In one scene, he locked sam in a toilet and tried to give sam a message abiut the decepticons, but sam wouldn't listen, so he pulled his trousers down and made sam listen. Then he opened the door and sams boss was stood there (John Malkovich, who i will get onto later) and since ken jeong's trousers were down and sam was stood in a locked toilet with him, yeah i didnt find it funny either. Now onto John Malkovich, playing sams boss in the film and i (along with many, many other people) thought that his job was one of the most pointless movie sub-plots in the last decade. He was in it for about, 7 minutes total i counted in an 154 minute film.
The autobot death: Now, this is a big spoiler, so i wont go into detail. About half an hour before the big battle scene, a major autobot thats been in it since no.1 is killed by somebody unexpected. But then, it is never referenced again! A key hero throughout the trilogy and he just died in under 30 seconds!
Megatron: I wish he stayed dead after the first one. I didnt see the point in Megatron being resurrected for ROTF, and i still dont see the point of him in this one. He was actully in this one for 5 minutes. And that was 5 minutes too many!
The length: This movie was 154 minutes long, longest of the franchise! Too long aswel. If the editors had cut out all of the unfunny humour and pointless scenes (especially the sams job sub-plot) then this film could have been just over 2 hours!
Well that concluded my review! Please comment and tell me what you think!
3.5/5
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