No chemistry? no explanation of story line? just special effects!

Rating: 6/10 (3 July 2011)

I rarely give a movie such a low rating. In fact, I can't even remember the last time I did. Now I actually like Michael Bay films, like Armageddon and Transformers 1 and 2. While every one bashed the 2nd one I liked it. but this 3rd installment - I don't know what happened. Transformers was in a perfect position to make a series of movies that was continuous and had a great story line.
All this one was, was a revamp of the other 2 - found ancient technology that the AutoBots and Decepticons used on Cyber-tron that could destroy earth. I mean, can the writers at least use a little imagination? Now, I didn't mind Rosey Huntington/Hartley or whatever her name is in the movie, but her playing Shia Lebouf's girlfriend was awful! there was ZERO chemistry b/w the two. it was forced and made you feel uncomfortable and awkward when the two were together.
Dark Moon plot would have been better as the first movie b/c Aliens/transformers being discovered on the moon in 1969. they just threw this topic out there and tried hyping it up, but it just didn't work.. gees with all the effort that went into the unbelievable last 60minutes of the movie with constant action, they could of spent some time on story development. the story itself was easy to understand, but there was no development, no explanation to anything.. In one scene we see BumbleBee coming to the rescue of Shia Lebouf, and 3 scenes later he's being held hostage saying goodbye to Shia's character b/c he's ready to be executed. Like, when did he get captured? that was never shown?!
some scenes were totally just added in, and out of place - for instance Optimus Prime being held captive and tangled up in wires by the Decepticons. Like BumbleBee, they made no mention of this, did not show how he was captured, nor did they show how he escaped - except they tried making it a part of the storyline when one character made a 1 second remark saying "where's Optimus??". and that was it.. it just didn't flow. and, it didn't work. this introduction of new characters didn't work either. The actors actually acted like they didn't want to be there.. (except shia, tho his antics are the same in every movie - but he's a good actor). the others seemed to want to just get the scenes over with .. No, I don't know what they are thinking but it just seemed that way...
It wasn't an awful movie.. but boy o boy to invest all this money into graphics and special effects and completely lay back on the story line was an upsetting and huge mistake. Transformers had so much potential as a continuous 3 part series of movies.. but they chopped it up, repeating the same storyline each movie.. Just so upsetting for being such a Huge fan of the Transformers!