The sad thing is . . .

Rating: 6/10 (7 July 2011)

A lot has already been said about the movie, the actors, the excellent CGI, both the right and the wrong of it all . . .
I can't but think that, if nothing else, the movie - especially towards the end - clearly shows Michael Bay's complete and utter Transformers fatigue
In an obvious effort to prevent being pressured into doing Transformers 4 all the potentially central baddies are killed off one after the other, Starscream, Schockwave, Megatron, Sentinel Prime, each one dispatched messily and finally, with no possible chance of being brought back to life . . .
Does it mean the end of the franchise . . . I think not
If the trend of pushing a franchise to the utmost extreme of believability and the current fascination with "how it all began" bears out, I can see Transformers 4, The Prequel coming out in a year or two, with a convoluted plot line involving a manned space mission from earth ending up in a wormhole, being transported back to Cybertronian pre-history, just as the Decepticons start to rebel Imagine the prime who will become The Fallen getting hold of their ship, learning that Earth has a viable sun, deciding to spend all his efforts on coming here to establish a second Cybertron . . .
It could happen, right . . .