I was insulted by the first two films...

Rating: 7/10 (4 July 2011)

Transformers was a horrible script with bad direction and annoyingly terrible performances. Transformers 2 only made things worse. Jokes and humour only funny to children with language and sexual references aimed at a much older audience, it was a mess.
Now you could say; 'Why then, if you hated the first two films, would you go to the theatre to see the third?' I have a six year old brother who is obsessed with Tranformers. He is going to see the movie either way. So I thought it best if he was going to a 3 hour long abortion by Micheal Bay in the theatre, I might as well be there to support him.
It begins like just another sequel and goes on for about an hour with only a few hints of action yet both the presences and performances of Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Alan Tudyk and a much less goofy, John Turturro, take the film to a new respectable level. I know, I still can't believe it either.
Somewhere within the 2nd hour, a complete shift happens. A series of plot twists with characters and Shia LaBeouf, who I have never been a fan of, for the first-time in the series, we actually relate with! The film then continues to surprise as it gets bigger and darker with excellent effects and stunts with human characters we care for. It's not shot over-the-top Micheal Bay style either, which is a surprise within the film itself. The film looses the over-use of shaky cams and lens flares, instead focuses in on what is going on, so we can get in on the action instead of getting frustrated trying to figure out what is going on.
It's almost as if Micheal Bay studied Zack Snyder's direction of The Watchmen, stopped smoking crack and later, watching J.J. Abrams films, said, "That's what I've been doing wrong!"