When I made my way to my seat in the cinema earlier this evening, I’ll admit that I wasn’t expecting much. Having seen most of the first Transformers film and all of the second, I had never really seen them as great movies. By the time the lights came back on after ‘Dark of the Moon’ I knew that my expectations had been correct.
It isn’t a bad film. Shia LaBeouf returns in the third instalment as the clear protagonist, Sam Witwicky, desperately searching for a job and feeling intimidated that his sexy new girlfriend played by model, Rosie Huntington-Whitely (that’s right boys, he dumped Megan Fox) is more financially stable and having fun each day flirting with her boss. Both are fair actors and did the best they could to portray the characters they were playing, however it was a shame that the characters were written to be so two dimensional.
Inevitably this realistic nonsense lasts only twenty or so minutes before we discover that Earth is in danger from an imminent Decepticon threat (again). I did like the way that Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg managed to neatly tie some of the plot points around real life events such as man landing on the moon and the Chernobyl disaster.
The entire second half of the film revolves around the Decepticon invasion and features a lot of robot fighting in case you didn’t see enough of it in the first two movies and, though it becomes slightly repetitive, the fight scenes are well choreographed and make use of some brilliant CG.
So in conclusion, I’ll give the film a high six out of ten. Like I said earlier, it isn’t bad; it just struggles to have any meaning without a strong storyline. There were some things in specific that confused me- first of all, I wasn’t really sure what the robot alien things were actually fighting over and thought it could have been emphasized a bit more and secondly, besides the fact that she was quite attractive, Huntington-Whiteley’s character really didn’t add much to the film (as Chris pointed out to me towards the end, she is just a spectator and has no real significance). If you want to watch a film this summer for action, girls and occasional slapstick humour this may be the one you are looking for, just don’t hold your breath if you’re expecting fleshed out characters and the best plot ever.
-Sam.
It isn’t a bad film. Shia LaBeouf returns in the third instalment as the clear protagonist, Sam Witwicky, desperately searching for a job and feeling intimidated that his sexy new girlfriend played by model, Rosie Huntington-Whitely (that’s right boys, he dumped Megan Fox) is more financially stable and having fun each day flirting with her boss. Both are fair actors and did the best they could to portray the characters they were playing, however it was a shame that the characters were written to be so two dimensional.
Inevitably this realistic nonsense lasts only twenty or so minutes before we discover that Earth is in danger from an imminent Decepticon threat (again). I did like the way that Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg managed to neatly tie some of the plot points around real life events such as man landing on the moon and the Chernobyl disaster.
The entire second half of the film revolves around the Decepticon invasion and features a lot of robot fighting in case you didn’t see enough of it in the first two movies and, though it becomes slightly repetitive, the fight scenes are well choreographed and make use of some brilliant CG.
So in conclusion, I’ll give the film a high six out of ten. Like I said earlier, it isn’t bad; it just struggles to have any meaning without a strong storyline. There were some things in specific that confused me- first of all, I wasn’t really sure what the robot alien things were actually fighting over and thought it could have been emphasized a bit more and secondly, besides the fact that she was quite attractive, Huntington-Whiteley’s character really didn’t add much to the film (as Chris pointed out to me towards the end, she is just a spectator and has no real significance). If you want to watch a film this summer for action, girls and occasional slapstick humour this may be the one you are looking for, just don’t hold your breath if you’re expecting fleshed out characters and the best plot ever.
-Sam.
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