The silver medal of the trilogy

Rating: 3/10 (9 June 2013)

First off, I LOVED the first movie, it was fun and fun to look at. Then the second movie came and I HATED it. It took everything great about the first one and flipped it on its shiny metal ass. I gotta say that this movie is marginally better than 2, but still nowhere near 1.
You don't need to know the plot here because it barely exists anyway.There are a lot of annoying characters, both human and robot, that deliver bad performances and really bad jokes. In fact the first hour is full of these bad jokes. The first action scene is really boring and forgettable. How could they screw up Optimus fighting a giant driller worm? The first hour is boring and almost a completely different movie with hardly any robots or action. Instead, we get Shia LaBeouf trying to find a job and please his new impossibly hot girlfriend in a painfully long and unnecessary sequence. You can almost skip that entire part.
Thankfully, the move gets much better in the second half, where a HUGE battle takes place in Chicago. The effects and the set pieces look amazing here. This is where you gotta give credit to Michael Bay. The robot fights are also filmed better here than in the other two movies. Two scenes get special mention: the highway chase involving Decepticons and the skyscraper. Those scenes are really intense and fun to watch. Like I said the entire second half is pretty much one big prolonged battle scene. It has some great moments, but some are filmed poorly or just plain long. Also the movie ends very abruptly, with about 30 seconds of aftermath.
Put simply, the movie is pretty bad overall. Most characters are annoying, the writing is bad and the jokes are horrible. The robots and other CGI look great, but they cannot cover up the flaws. Only the second half is worth watching.