Genre: Action/Science FictionPersonal Rating: 6.5/10
In any war, there are calms between the storms. There will be days when we lose faith. Days when our allies turn against us. But the day will never come when we forsake this planet and its people. For I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to the universe: We are here. We are home. -- Optimus Prime
The first Apollo mission that landed on the moon uncovered evidences of extraterrestrial mechanical lifeforms -- a crashed Cybertronian spacecraft with no survivors. Decades after, the Autobots, under the command of Optimus Prime, learned about this, and believed that the dark side of the moon holds more dangerous secrets that will ultimately lead to Earth's destruction once the Decepticons get hold of it first.
PLOT
Of all three films of the Transformers franchise, this had the worst storyline. If it wasn't for the effects (which were superb) and the fictional mechanical cast, this would be nothing but a lame movie with cars and girls (I mean, girl).
They also tied in nice story twists, which was good enough to revive the moviegoers' interest, albeit some twists were loosely delivered.
ACTORSLet's face it -- Megan Foxx would have made Transformers 3 something more.
Well Rosie Huntington-Whitely did her part well, e.g. show skin and all, model beside luxury cars, and be the ultimate leading lady for a loser male character. Typical geek movie.
Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, and rising comic Ken Jeong were added to the already-complex cast -- too complex that each of them weren't given the chance of a character progression. Well the main cast didn't have that well anyway. For one thing, they didn't make full use of Shia LaBeouf's talent.
It's like the main characters in the movie weren't the 'real' main characters in the movie. Remove them and the show's still the same. The Autobots are the stars here. The human stars were like useless, insignificant ants who swarm to their deaths in between epic mechanical battles. And I am quite disappointed because Bumblebee had short airtime.
Did you know Buzz Aldrin made a cameo role here? The Buzz Aldrin! The real one! For geeks like me, we know Buzz Aldrin as the heroic American who was 'moon-walking' beside Neil Armstrong in 1969.
PRESENTATION
They actually made full use of their special effects prowess, so full, they might have overused special effects too much.
The movie highlight was more of explosions here and there, the storyline and characters became blurry and were overshadowed by the loudness of special effects. The human characters became dull as the story progressed that I totally disregarded them -- the only thing I was looking forward in the main scenes were the robot clashes and the voice of Optimus Prime [chills..]
After the movie, I still felt, uhh, lacking -- which is synonymous to me not significantly impressed by the movie (thus the rating).
Although this review is more of the negative side, nobody would care about low character progression and special effects loudness crap anyway. Everyone would still watch Transformers.Because it's Transformers!
If you're into jam-packed special effects amusement, then you definitely have to see this. You'll have more than you've bargained for.
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