A pathetic end to the worst franchise in history

Rating: 1/10 (1 October 2011)

I was disappointed by the first Transformers movie. It was too far away from the Generation One characters I had grown up with as a child. I then sat down for Revenge of the Fallen, which I hoped would be moving more towards the routes of the toy franchise. Alas, that did not happen. I will not fill this up with reviews of those films, but suffice it to say that I had been told that this was an improvement. All I can say is, what liars!
I am amazed Michael Bay gets to make movies after so many awful films. I am ever more amazed he gets to make big budget movies after so many awful efforts. I am even, even more amazed that our cinema audiences are so moronic that they go on their droves to lap this rubbish up in lieu of the well made cinema of days gone by.....meaning that they are the chief reason that a franchise with no quality whatsoever manages to get to three installments.
This movie is bad on every level imaginable. Maybe I am biased, but to me two and half hours of CGI does not get me excited. I like real effects. Sure I know this is difficult with something like the Transformers concept, but what insults me here is that the studio, and Bay, think this film can rely on good CGI as it's driving force. Sure, the CGI is good by itself, but after three movies of robots just bashing each other up in CGI it all gets a bit "ho-hum". If animations were enough,why do Pixar films only succeed once they also include good scripts and music? This movie was an absolute joke. Consider the following:-

We learn nothing much about this Sential Prime. He's just "bad guy for rent". Shame on you Leonard Nimoy, I know you are related to Bay, but even so, do you want your last outing to be a total turd?

There is no character development for the transformers themselves AT ALL. Hell, Megatron only appears in the movie to get killed at the end. Worse still, he is turned away from Sentinel Prime's evil plan by Shia's love interest. That's right a dumb blonde walks up to a huge evil robot and convinces him to help with one line. Oh...dear.....god.

The great Optimus, who, for those who remember the great 1987 animated film, usually shows mercy, kills both Sentinel Prime and Megatron in cold blood....just like that.....and once they are dead the movie...just ends!

None of the human characters really have any kind of an arc, even Shia. The highlight of Shia's appearance is when he is taken over by a Decepticon wristwatch (yep, a watch), which exists there to spy on the Autobots.....oh but when the autobots fake an explosion, the watch just gives up. WTF?. Shia's parents are there for no reason at all and serve no purpose. John Turtorro shows up again but actually, well, does nothing. The great talents of Frances McDormand and John Malkovich are criminally wasted, especially the latter, who completely vanishes half way through the film when Shia tells him to leave a room.

20 foot Bumblebeee seems to be able to walk through small doors into apartments

Washington DC is apparently also Chicago.

The Megan Fox replacement is simply a blonde for hire whose first appearance is in the form of her panty wearing backside

We are treated to more insufferable pro-American nonsense. The Autobot Transformers are, it seems, American agents because, well, America is the best dontcha know.....this extends to them attacking a supposedly "illegal" Middle Eastern Nuclear Plant (complete with Iranian flags - determined as illegal by, um, who? Americans?) and swarming into Chernobyl to discover evil ex-Soviets hiding transformer technically and working with the Decepticons. Yes, that's right. Ex-Soviets are Decepticon agents. Those dirty Reds!

I could go on and on, but I think I have already indicated how bad the picture is. All I'll add is that together with all the problems above the movie really has no logical and worthwhile script whatsoever.
This movie is a criminal indictment of the modern state of Hollywood. An industry driven by pumping out mindless drivel in place of good quality artistry on the sole premise that it might sell more tickets. Bay himself should be ashamed that, as a filmmaker, rather than a studio executive, he is helping to prop this up.