A movie that has great visual and audio effects, but that's it.

Rating: 4/10 (8 July 2011)

I recently watched the Michael Bay Film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. This film is the third in the explosive franchise about robots, girls, and cars. After the critical failure of the second installment, Michael Bay vowed to make a much better film, and he did just that. Now, being better than the second film is like saying this rotten egg tastes much better than this dung pile. The movie was overall enjoyable, but was extremely long (2 hours 45 minutes).
A lot of the movie could have been cut out, and a lot more action could have been put in. The first hour and forty minutes is filled with very stupid humor, and very unimportant things, like Sam Witwicky's job. In addition to all of this, a lot of random actors get thrown in for a dose of star power (I'm looking at you Ken Jeoung. ) If they had cut all of that out, and put a little more needed action into the film, it would have made the movie about two hours long, and much more manageable.
Transformers was also lacking what it was supposed to excel in: action. There were only two memorable parts of the film, and they were about five minutes long each. If Michael Bay had added more action, it would have made the film much more balanced, and much more watchable.