Review: Transformers 3

Epic.

Intense action.

Digital effects indulgent.

Forty minutes too long.

Top-notch cinematography and sequences.

While it was a bit long, it was fast moving and engaging. I loved the conspiratorial angle, linking the robots to conspiracies about the Moon landing. For me that gave the movie a neo-real depth and edge that really fit perfectly into the franchise story.

If I could, I would have cut out most of the scenes with the annoying little robots -- they were like Jar Jar Binks all over again. The excessively juvenile and 'ghetto' rambling of the little robots takes away from the movie, for me. I understand what they are trying to do, I just don't think it helps the movie... Just my opinion.

While I enjoyed the film, I'm still on the fence about how I feel about Michael Bay as a Director. I actually think there are many other Directors who, with the resources available to them, could have made a much better movie.

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Many parts of the film were very 'clunky' and didn't really make sense or just totally contradicted what the story had established previously. For example there is a point when the main girl, talks to Megatron and convinces him to go attack 'Sentinel Prime' the once good robot who has gone bad...

Megatron has killed every human he can for the past couple hours, but for some reason decides to not kill, and even listen to this girl? >> Forced, clunky

Also the soldiers who parachute in to the epic battle with the winged suits, and miraculously are able to avoid being shot by robots that can hit mach-3? >> poorly executed.

Obviously the producers and director know people will just get over it if they even ever catch it. I'm just being picky.

Most of the time I was marveling at the film technology available to us today. Nobody can make movies like Hollywood. It's pretty awesome.