Bay Could Be A Good Director

Rating: 4/10 (5 July 2011)

The sad thing is, Bay has something others directors work out for years (even decades) to get: means. He gets what he needs, because investors know he sells thickets. So, when you hear about Bay and Spielberg, one can assure there WILL be something extraordinary going on. You will buy and people will be paying Bay for a merely entertaining moment and an absolute mess of a story. That's what I saw yesterday.
There were big robot monsters exhilaratingly killing themselves in confrontations better even than the ones seen on the first one and the second one. There's where I found some kind of relief for my money. The amazing hand to hand combat seen on the first movie was better this time, as I found the most of the Autobots were involved this time in close combat sequences against a giant army of invader Decepticons. I met Dino, Sideswipe, Que and other Transformers from which my favorites were Soundwave and Ratchet. This time, is about one spaceship that crashed on the Earth's Moon in the ages of Kennedy. Therefore, the first step of mankind on our natural satellite (one of the biggest achievements in history) was not even for the sake of science, but a race between the U.S. NASA and the Russian aerospace intelligence to reach the ship and find out what's inside of it. The NASA won, but not much was the prize, only the location of the spaceship. Years later, after a mission in the Middle-Eastern (which has no relation, to me, with the context; just a mere reason to kill Iranians) and a visit to the ruins of the nuclear central in Chernobyl, Ukraine (my God: Russians needing Americans for research), Optimus Prime (Cullen) found some kind of proof of what the space mission was all about in the first place. The spaceship, The Ark, is the rest place of an old buddy named Sentinel Prime (Nimoy), the master of the actual leader of the Autobots. He left Cybertron in the middle of the war and took with him "something" that could have given the Autobots the victory: pillars, hundreds of them. He got lost in space to hide those pillars and, after he crashed on the Moon, he locked himself inside the ship with five of them. The pillars are means of transportation which can be used by Transformers to bring troops to this world and, in Decepticon hands, they could be very dangerous, so it is imperative to keep them away from Megatron (Weaving) and his brand new band of robot-fellas, along Shockwave (Welker) and his giant robot-worm-pet, Soundwave (also Welker) with his scary robot-vulture-pet (Awesome!), and Starscream with his usual cowardice. Decepticons go after those pillars.
The story with the Autobots and Decepticons is poor, but should work alone if it were. There goes Sam Wickity (LaBeouf) again, but this time with the hyper-sensual Carly (Huntington-Witheley) instead of Megan Fox (Bay is a man of word) covering the role of his hot girlfriend. The lucky guy keeps his supermodel in a ruined store and she lives on with his love, cause he still looking for job. She works in a male's paradise and has a female's paradise (and even some non-female) of a boss, Dylan (Dempsey), the guy who cares for her so much to give her a Mercedes (hell of a car), while Sam has a substitute of his Bumble Bee (joke of a car). I had seen this kind of treats, where the girl rather to be with the deprived guy even thought there is a rich (powerful) and handsome guy who falls for her, but this is way too much. It is just ludicrous. Dylan does a deal for Sam to get a shot in a cars company, where seemingly isn't any possible way of a quality standard (or human real emotions). There is where Sam meets a marked guy (Jeong) who has information about something the Decepticons cares so much to send robot-mercenaries to take human lives off At this level, the script is very complicated (not complex) without the characteristically absurd jokes Bay always frequents in his movies. Yes, there are a lot of them in this movie, tons of them. So much, that anyone can begin to doubt about the credibility of every single character. And there, exactly there is where Michael Bay fails every time. Sexy and uninterested supermodel girlfriend; rich Simons with gay butler; armed ex soldiers surviving the fall of a building. Those are affairs that would probably build a good plot each one in a different and separate movie, but in one single movie all of them could be (and they ARE) a complete and irrevocable mess; one that not even all the fights of big robots from all the galaxies would compensate. As the time passed by, I started to think about the Island. If there ever was a movie that made me feel the progress of a director in the matter of legibility it was his Island. McGregor and Johansson provide real emotions, real dialogs and even an amazing change of personality in the same movie But that was then. No real emotions in this movie. No real dialog
Somehow, I know Bay don't want to be a real director. He does his own movies, I know that, but he doesn't take it seriously. He's like a child, a big child that sells thickets and makes movies appear good with exaggerated takes and freezing sequences. Fancy style is what it is. But, as long as he keeps selling, he won't change. If, in some way, I found this movie better than the second one is because the return of the body combat. But both movies are despicable, and if I had known that before I wouldn't have left myself to be tightened by the first movie to see all the other movies in theaters.