It might not be a work of art but it's fun and thats all that should expected in the first place.

Rating: 7/10 (8 July 2011)

Transformers has never been a series about good story or good acting. It's about having too many explosions, stupid jokes, the hottest girls I've ever seen bending over the nicest cars I've ever seen, and robots killing each other.
To think that it's anything other a fun movie is expecting too much and when the movie is 2 1/2 hours long you'll have a bad time if you're not going to overlook the fact that it's not the next Shawshank Redemption. Michael Bay is a director who people go to expecting explosions and action. In Transformers 3, you got it.
However, the fact that it's a very long movie does give it some downsides. The real action doesn't start until the second half of the movie following a real exciting twist. One of my friends even started crying at it. The second half though is without a doubt one of the coolest movie scenes I've seen in a couple years. I went with my girlfriend and we were talking about it with her dad and we suggested going into it half way through the movie if he wouldn't have the patience for the slow beginning. I thought they were going to end the movie at the twist at first and make it the sequel as the second half would've been a great movie on it's own.
Similarly the story is all over the place, I would suggest not paying too much attention to it as it wasn't very good, only complex and confusing. It's slow and mysterious at first and until the action picks up not a lot happens.
Give the movie your attention long enough to get to the second half and you'll see some amazing robot fighting action that's way cooler than anything I could've done with those cool toys. It's fun, it's cool, it's stupid. Don't let the fact that it isn't a perfect movie ruin the action. I would suggest seeing it in theater; it's just a great time.