Argurably better than the first one, and just about anything is better than the second

Rating: 7/10 (29 June 2011)

Well after the last transformers movie (revenge of the fallen) a lot of people lost hope in the transformers series. Actually some people lost hope after the first movie, but I personally liked it.
Dark of the moon takes place some time after Revenge of the Fallen, and thank goodness Sam has a new girlfriend. Honestly Megan Fox wasn't really attractive in the last movies and just kind of looked like a... ummm... not going to say slut... but you get the drift. Either way this new girl who is played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley who honestly know how to act for not being in any movies before this. I found this surprising that she actually did have some acting talent, and seemed like a better match for Sam's character than Megan... but honestly who really cares about the female role. I WATCH TRANSFORMERS FOR VIOLENCE! Shockingly Dark of the Moon has a plot of sorts (I know this may sound like a stretch for Michael Bay) but it does. The plot isn't real deep or extremely engaging, but it still has one that deals with conspiracies and it actually makes sense. The visuals are over the top in this movie, and honestly the visuals are so good you don't really question if this is real life or not (scary, I know). This movie is much darker compared to the others and there are much less juvenile jokes. That was the biggest problem with the last two movies is that the autobots would do something juvenile like fart, pee on someone, or talk trash. There is a little bit of that in this movie, but much less compared to the others. The most annoying characters from the last movie are gone. Sentinel Prime is voice by Leonard Nimoy which I discovered when watching the movie and I literally turned to the guy next to me "THAT'S LEONARD NIMOY!".
This movie is really good at being what it is: A very violent robot action movie, with human characters that are there for plot reasons. The human scenes are sometimes funny (a particular bathroom scene) but sometimes they are unrealistic. Like where someone gets shoved out of a window, only to fall to their death. Everyone in the building practically laughs at the guys death, and take pictures. One guy says "Look there is a dead guy out there, he is literally everywhere, so go clean him up." at this scene bothered me because it is trying to be funny, but it is so dark that it doesn't make sense.
I'm slowly getting to this, but the action in this movie is top notch, along with the 3-D. If you are going to see this movie, see it in 3-D. The action is very detailed, has graphic robot violence, and is very epic. All of the battles are very cool and fun to watch. Seeing humans work together to take down a giant robot is also cool, though sometimes it seems like the humans weapons are overpowered. Like when the humans are using machine guns, you will see chunks of robot fall off. Another impressive battle was a road action sequence which you could compare to the road action sequence in the first movie. The only difference is that this one is bigger, and a lot cooler. The decepticons are in large numbers in this movie, but they seem to be a bit weaker, and Optimus Prime now has a crazy amount of weapons and seems like a total bad-a** when he is mowing down tons of decepticons.
The movie has some slight pacing issues, like the ending seems a bit too abrupt, especially if this truly is the last movie then I think there should've been a deeper ending. There are a couple moments in the movie where a whole bunch happens in about 30-seconds. Like the entire decepticon attack was viewed in a montage... slightly disappointing we didn't get to see the whole attack instead of only a couple seconds of it.
If you want to see a great action movie, with a fairly good plot then Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the movie for you. If you didn't like the first movie than you might not like this one... you notice I didn't even mention the second movie there? Either way see this movie in 3D and you will definitely enjoy it. Did I mention the ending action sequence is over an hour long?