Do you like mindless action? Go see this ASAP.

Rating: 3/10 (29 June 2011)

But for those of us who focus more on the story and characters then, you won't find too much of it here.
The flaws from the God-awful transformers 2 has sort-of been fixed (probably because Bay didn't write any of the script this time). But the main issues are still very visible. One of the largest problems with this movie are the human characters, you can't relate to them and we don't really get to know them at all, as such we don't really care what happens to them, which makes a lot of the scenes where people get hurt or gets close to death rather bad.
The awful and very miss-placed comedy is still here, while it is far from as present as it was in the second movie... It's still here. This is a really major issue since there isn't a consistent theme in the movie. For example, a lot of times when suspension is built up in the movie, it's destroyed by miss-placed toilethumour slapstick jokes which immediately breaks the tension. This was a MAJOR issue in the second one but thankfully it's not AS present in this one. Also, most of the human characters are in the movie only to serve as comedy-relief, which usually is fine but there are WAY too many comedy-relief characters in the movie which just gets annoying and breaks the tension.
The story is also quite bad and there are a lot of plot holes in the movie, however what annoyed me the most were the same things as in the second movie.
A, Unnecessary scenes) Again, there are so many scenes that contribute nothing to the story or the development of the characters, since I can't spoil anything I can't give any good examples of this, but again it's much less than the second movie (which is pretty much just a clusterf**k of unnecessary scenes) but is still very prominent.
B, Historical things...) This is something that I personally dislike a lot, while a lot of people probably don't care at all. The movie both "explains" what "really" happened at two major of events, one of which was a huge disaster most people probably heard of, namely the Chernobly disaster. This almost felt insulting, not only do they want us to accept such a implausible explanation, they expect us not to react on it... I mean, people died in that disaster show some respect for Christ sake. It also references other disasters via imagery.
C, The transformers)
This is supposed to be a movie about the transformers, and I still don't understand why our main characters are humans and not autobots. The transformers themselves are never really presented in a good way which means you probably won't know who's who. The only characters I could notice were Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee, luckily the autobots are easier to differentiate from the decipticons this time around. As for the decipticons, I really did not have a clue as to who's who.
D, The length) This movie is way... WAY too long. The ending part of the movie is almost 50 minutes long and it's just constant action which I found rather boring. I think if they cut around 35% of the movie I might consider giving it a 5.5-6 in score, but at this length it got to the point where I was looking at my watch every 5 minutes to see if it was about to end soon.
Conclusion)
If you want to see a solid action movie, then this will probably serve you rather well, however do not expect anything from the story and be prepared for poorly placed toilethumour jokes.
If you're looking for a "good" movie, then you'll have better luck elsewhere, the movie fails to deliver at everything aside from the action.
Final score, 3,5.