Good but not great

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2011)

The first Transformers was a great set up for the series openers and transformed the Saturday morning cartoon into a box office hit. The second movie was a disappointment to what the first movie accomplished and left a bad taste in the mouths of fans and critics alike. Now we are introduced to the third and final film that tries to reset the bar set by the original and send Transformers off in an applause. From the middle to end this movie reaches the sheer adrenaline that was presented to the audience in the series opener. Delivering more action and story then the both films, but the major issues associated this with film is the running time is stretched a little and a lot of dry, unfunny humor. Those few hiccups may be a problem, but the last hour of amazing robot vs. robot action will distract from those flaws a bit. Plus the added 3D is a nice touch to the film and is one of the best incorporated 3D I have seen in a movie. Transformers 3 was not a great film by any means, but best one of the series and a great summer flick where you can sit back and enjoy all the action this movie has to offer. Michael Bay is not the greatest director, but is the best in crafting some of the best action sequences ever displayed on a movie screen and does his best work in this movie. He has to be given a lot of credit at what he does best and never fails to raise the level of action in each one of the Robot movies, despite the lack there of story and acting. He knows his weakness as a director and knows how to outshine it with his craft, making his movies enjoyable to watchable. In saying all those things, the story that follows Shia Labeouf character use to symbolize an anchor in the sense that it ways down the film, never letting it reach its potential. It was redundant at times to watch him and his gang of pointless cast members running across the screen, screaming, making bad jokes and doing nothing but serve as a human connection for the audience to relate to. Rosie Whiteley, who is a far better actor than Megan Fox and more charming, was a great plus to the Transformers story. Also new comers John Malkovich and Ken Jong are meaningless, replaceable actors that are placed in the film to be a comic relief that never gets there. The human cast that succeeds in making their presence be felt are Patrick Dempsey and Frances McDormand who were incredible to watch in this film and display the best acting out of the cast. They fit in perfect and brings a certain edge and seriousness to the film. I'm going out on a limb here and say that the thing that makes this a good film are the robots. Their acting has never been showcased in the movies and never given enough screen time to understand them better, but Bay must have realize that and given them more depth. They display better performances than their human counterparts and give the audience what we have been yearning for since the begin and that's more connection to them. I mean beside them having more depth, they have a lot of nice eye dazzling scenes and just grabs the enter child in you. This apocalyptic movie tone is way darker than its predecessors and pushes the boundary of a PG- 13 movie. The Transformers trilogy as a whole if not one of the greatest cinema has seen, but on the perspective of action films, it has set the bar high for action films in the future. Transformer 3, while a flawed movie at times sends the Robot series out in style and is one best sequel by far in the summer non worthy sequels.