This is the best of the transformers films in my opinion. The special effects held up well after ten years. The directing and some dialogue could be better, but there are great scenes that have beautiful visuals. Rosie Huntington Whitley is stunning, the cars are beautiful and there are scenes with elegant visuals. Some of the jokes will probably be dated in the near future and theres alot of product placement. It can be somewhat exploitive of Rosie Huntington Whitley as she is essentially eye candy and a damsel in distress, but she does SOME stuff. The cast is preety A list however for a threequel. Shia Labeuf plays Sam as quirky as ever in this one but hes trying to prove himself more as a hero. John Malkovitch, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Patrick Dempsey, Frances Mcdormand, and Alan Tudyk all have great character performances. Hugo weaving and Leonord Nimoy do a fantastoc job as well. Sentinel Prime is a well rounded character. Much of the action is mechanical and explosive but theres alot of sci fi action as well such as dogfighting spaceships, carchaces, gunfights with lasers, and disaester scenes. It doesnt have a good ending either and kind of cuts off at the end, but; everyones arcs are preety fullfilled. It also has one of the best alien invasion scenes, I feel. The Autobot designs are preety cool though a bit stereotypical when it comes to race, theres an italian, and two celtic sounding robots which really doesnt make sense if they are aliens from another planet. Rhe Decepticons have cool designs as well. Theres also a few plot holes but nothing that interferes with the story. Its mainly a movie you watch for entertainment and action, theres a few emotional moments like the begining scenes and a few with Sam but the human side of the story isnt as fun to watch. I do like how the antagonists are dark shadows to the protagonists. Its also probably the most rewatchable, american, giant-robot film besides maybe the Iron Giant. Id say if you have time to kill and want a movie to watch on maybe a work night or a lazy day I would recomend this.
Review of Transformers: Dark of the Moon
