There's a lot to like about Transformers 3, and ofcourse a lot not to like. This movie is designed to be a "4th of July Popcorn Eating Movie", with lots of explosions, Chicago getting destroyed, a very weak plot, and a lack of character development.
First off, the plot seem to contradict from the first two movies in the previous timelines.
EXAMPLE: If MEGATRON and SENTINEL PRIME formed a secret alliance, when did this occur? If I remember right (and I'm sure that I do) MEGATRON was frozen on Earth for a million years, at least according to the first movie. The Ark with SENTINEL PRIME aboard, crashes on Earth in the year 1961. What puzzles me and a lot of the fans of the Transformer Franchise is, how come the FALLEN (from the 2nd movie) didn't know about this Ark? These loopholes made the plot of the movie confusing, and very unpredictable (if you're into following the series up to this point.)
That being said, I tried to look at the movie with an open mind.
I've gone a lot of 3D Visual Movies this year and by far, Transformers 3 has the best 3D I've seen so far this year. This movie gets an "A" for the 3D, but aside from that, the movie falls flat in it's face in both character development and in plot.
Let's talk about character development. In Transformers 3, we are introduced to a couple of new characters.
First, we are introduced to a new girlfriend in Sam (Shia LaBeouf) Witwickey's life. Don't get me wrong because I think Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is extremely gorgeous but aside from being the 'Hot Girl' in the movie, her character as Sam Witwicky's boyfriend fell flat on it's face. Maybe it's me, or the fact that this was Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's first acting job, but the boyfriend/girlfriend relationship didn't click and by all accounts seemed very fake.
Then there's Frances McDormand. She plays the role of the woman in charge of the Military and the CIA. She won't listen to anyone but if you look real closely, her character reminds you of the character 'Edna' in the PIXAR MOVIE "The Incredibles."
Also in the movie, John Turturro returns as Agent Seymour Simmons, selling books about Alien Invasions and we now find Robert Epps (Tyrese Gibson) now working for NASA in what he calls a Retirement Job.
As for the New Transformers/Robots...In the movie, we see 2 annoying little Robots, an Old Guy Robot that looks like he can spit in a bucket and a couple of Nascar Style Robots. This would have been a time to shine (for the movie) but instead these new characters were just thrown right at us without an introduction to them or where they came from. These Autobots could have used more Dialog to make the movie more entertaining.
TRANSFORMERS 3 was above average at best. It bothers me a lot that the Military didn't learned after the first movie that BULLETS DON'T WORK against these Robots/Deceptigons.
I also found the whole "Getting a job thing plot for Sam Witwickey" at the beginning of the movie and the NASA coverup thing, was either wasted or lost.
The movie was entertaining, but what we got was a decent scripted movie in the first half, and a "Balls to the Wall" John Woo type of movie in the second half. Whatever you do, don't try to make sense of this jumbled plot...cause to this point, I'm still confused.
All in all, there is a saying in the movie industry that goes, "A movie is only as good as it's Villian."
Unfortunately, the "Villian" of this movie was the poor script and the Director.
3 1/2 Stars out of 5!
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