Rated PG-13
Running time: 157 minutes
Click below to watch the Transformers: Dark of the Moon trailer.
In the third installment of Transformers, Paramount Pictures Transformers: Dark of the Moon, has the Autobots discover that humanity's space race to the moon was the result of an event - the discovery of a crashed Cybertron spaceship.
The basic story of the movie was interesting about the secret of why we had the first landing on the moon, with a cameo by astronaut Buzz Aldrin, although the filmic use of historical presidential leaders was not as good as in X-Men: First Class. The various Transformers fight scenes were mind-numbingly over the top. At over 2 1/2 hours, half the movie was of CGI Transformers fighting and most of the time - because they are so detailed - you can not tell the Transformers apart during the battles. As a result, you do not care about the Transformers - especially when there is a lot of collateral damage. I wanted the film to get on with the story. You initially do not see any consequences of the collateral damage caused by the battles of the Transformers. It is not until the last act of the movie where human bystanders are disintegrated by the Decepticons fire that there consequences. The military was intelligently used against the Decepticons fighting for their home which made you care more about the battle scenes as you relate to the soldiers. The skydiving scenes were incredible, but still the battle scenes was mostly Transformers mayhem which got old very fast.
The new girl Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is okay, but being suddenly so intimate with the Transformers world seemed a bit much when you realize Shia LaBeouf''s previous girlfriend from the other Transformers movies Megan Fox is out of the picture. Having Leonard Nimoy being the voice of the Transformer leader Sentinel Prime was great in that for a new character, you care immediately about him.
Rated PG-13 for violence.
Pancho
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