3 Is The Lucky Number

Rating: 8/10 (7 August 2011)

This is the best Transformers yet. I really enjoyed the first, was okay with the second, blown away by the third. The cast seems to have really enjoyed working together and every scene comes out great. I was impressed with the casting. Leonard Nimoy follows his Star Trek role with another great performance. Frances McDormand is funny, tough and cool headed and she owns every scene she is in. Shia LeBeouf plays the frustrated, under estimated hero perfectly. I was disappointed in his Indiana Jones performance. He has redeemed himself. John Turturro in a welcome return, gets to play it over the top, without overdoing it.
Giving the Transformers even more humanistic traits and appearances made the characters/personalities really come across. This is hampered by having them speak with distinct international accents. Are we to believe that alien robotic life forms would build a robotic planet as one race but develop different accents and dialects? It just doesn't fit for me, but I can live with it.
The fight scenes were a so overdone in the second, you couldn't follow the action. That is not the case this time around.
The story line is great. Mixing history with fiction, was a terrific idea and the melding of archival footage with new actors was very well done reminiscent of Forest Gump). The movie is about 2 1/2 hours long, but you will never know it. It is non stop action and fun the whole time. I suggest you see it in 3D.