Total Shambles

Rating: Null/10 (4 August 2011)

Unfortunately this movie is not the final movie of the trilogy we had been waiting for. Its too long, over the top, pointless and takes a good hour for people to actually understand what the plot is.
It starts off with a neat and clever little homage to American history that promises so much more than it delivers. Then it gets messy! We see our hero for the first time with his new girlfriend. And this is where the special effects is most impressive because those lips are surely not real? But she is easily the most beautiful thing about this film. It is RHW that stopped me from leaving prematurely. Not for her acting ability of course. But cue a bunch of random explosions and slow motion action sequences that seemingly have nothing to do with the story. No character development, the script is terrible and some of the one liners are cringe worthy. Throw in a couple of big name actors and actresses that have no reason to be there, but maybe good actors can salvage the mess? No they can't. Alan Tudyk is probably worth one star in this movie. But not enough to make a bad script work.
Shia disappointed me in this too. I always thought he had brilliant presence and charisma as an actor, but maybe because of a lack of story, direction and script it ruined his last outing as Sam Witwicky.
Yes the cars are gorgeous, RHW is too, the special effects are impressive, but only in the chase scene on the highway which was, might I add, a carbon copy of the first Transformers movie. All other effects lacked something I can't quite put my finger on. The ending is a joke too. It is no more than anyone expected but although the film was about an hour too long, the ending seemed horribly rushed.
But thank god this is the last one at least for Michael Bay. Just because your making a movie with fast cars, beautiful women, explosions and spectacular SFX, doesn't mean it'll be any good!
3 out of 10 for Alan Tudyk, SFX and RHW's lips!