Transformers 3: When the third time is not the charm

Rating: 6/10 (29 June 2011)

Please note that there are few small spoilers so be careful before reading on.
I see you're brave and have ventured to the review. First off I'd like to tell you that Sam's (Shia LeBeouf) new girlfriend Carly's (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) acting was decent and no worse than Fox's; and in the long run it was better.
The CGI was, as you would assume, amazing but still doesn't take home the trophy of Avatar and is rather far from that. This movie relies too much on the special effects and in doing so leaves you with three main battle scenes and rubble. At the end there is no indication that everything is okay, but it obviously is since this is a movie. Megatron doesn't need to get killed again either; it needs a better plot because this one is just old.
Transformers 3 wants to be one of those amazing battle movies, and it tries hard at this: only to fail. The problem is that the battles were short and things just get destroyed all the time at a ridiculous frame-rate that you can't keep up with. Someone would have to watch this a few times to actually remember what took place during the battles besides the good guys winning, as always. LeBeouf's "Optimus!" will always be classic, but doesn't necessarily need to be in every movie.
The biggest annoyance of this movie was its soundtrack. I was appalled to hear what sounded like Hans Zimmer's Inception soundtrack during the dramatic scenes of the movie. The melody was far too similar to it, and I thought it was the same thing at times. The other tracks in the soundtrack were just boring as they were the same Transformers melody that we've been hearing since 2007.
Overall the reason I really didn't care for this addition to the Transformers series is because of the idea itself. The first was great and we didn't need anything other than that, but now they've gone to make an unnecessary trilogy or more, who knows. I didn't feel like the movie took me through a fun adventure, but a dramatic journey instead. Different, yes, but for good or bad?
I'll let you decide that as I do recommend that you go watch it, unless you want to save that money for the final Harry Potter or Captain America.