two thirds of this movie is an unforgivable waste and thats all there is to it.

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 2011)

Im not one of those people who wants to hate this movie. I wanted this movie to be a fun action packed movie that played to Michael Bay's strengths (Lets face the facts , Michael Bay's main strength is that he's good at directing over the top action scenes) , to be fair the movie offers what I and the majority of the audience wanted ...in the last third of the movie.
The first two thirds of this movie is like they didn't learn from the mistakes of the atrocious second movie 'revenge of the fallen' . The one saving grace is that racially insensitive robots allow it would have been great comic relief if the movie had them been crushed alive instead.
The story is not my main quarrel with this movie. That been said its not a clever story. In all honesty it doesn't have to be though. Transformers movies have never been praised for innovative , new ideas like inception , or ideas that seem possible and encourage the mind to push the known boundaries of science and engineering (like star trek or space odyssey) . The transformers creators and audience know that the stories come second to the action in their movies. Thats fine in a movie like this. It doesn't have to be clever. It can be an entertaining thrill ride can knows what audience it wants to please.
This movie though is a mess... Its not the story that I have a problem with.. Its the filler. The movie seems to be filled with an never ending stream of annoying characters. The least annoying character for me was the female lead (played by Rosie-huntington whitley) and the lead soldiers. There characters did not necessarily have a lot of dialogue . Believe it or not thats why I preferred them to the rest of the human characters. The first half of this movie plays like a horrible comedy that only gives you glimpses of the autobots and decepticons (which is honestly what everyone came to see....that and rosie huntington)...No one wanted to see lame jokes and characters belch out fast paced , incomprehensible dialogue. I find the dialogue annoying, very annoying , and thats my major quarrel with this movie. It spends around half the film with these annoying characters spewing words very quickly but rather unintelligibly .For example what was with the Asian who cornered sam in a bathroom... I could not understand a word of what he said...It was like he overdosed on speed (like a lot of these characters mind you).
Everything in the third part was what I wanted from the movie , overpriced but great action scenes and I fairly badass fight for Chicago... that will never be enough however to make up for the first half or two thirds... You cant say this movie is good solely because of the end... Two-thirds of this movie felt like a wasted opportunity.
I came into this movie saying what every person who liked the second movie said to me ''It's just a movie , Its supposed to be a stupid but fun action packed ride'' ... and now going to simply say to those people ... I wanted for the real action to come and it took ages , a movie can be dumb but It doesn't have to waste my time with pointless things that no one wants to see...So yeah if those people want to waste their own time with mind numbling stupid dialogue then step right in folks.