Starring: Shia LeBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson, John Turtorro, Leonard Nimoy.
Dir: Michael Bay.
Michael Bay has always been a hit and miss director, producing some great films and some flops. With the third in the Transformers franchise, Dark of the Moon, Bay has definitely produced a hit.
Starring all of the old cast - minus Megan Fox following the now infamous fall out between her and Bay - plus Sam's (LeBeouf) new squeeze Carly (Huntington-Whiteley), the Autobots and their human allies have to save the Earth from the Decepticons one more time.
The story follows the revelation that the space race that saw Neil Armstrong land on the moon was actually because of a crashed Autobot ship, later found the be carrying a new weapon for the civil war and the old leader of the Autobots, Sentinel Prime (Nimoy).
The main selling point of the latest in the Transformers films, is of course the fact that it is shot in 3D. This has the effect of highlighting the brilliant CGI used throughout for both alien and the far fetched Earth technology.
The other big thing is of course the score of the film, which has always been emotive and well suited to each film, and Steve Jablonsky hasn't disappointed in the latest offering. That and the more than expected Linkin Park contribution really added to the depth of the film.
I'm not sure whether I was being naive when I heard LeBeouf and Bay saying that the latest film was a lot more serious and darker than the previous ones, especially the laugh out loud-ness of the second film (Devastators 'testicles'), I expected there to be almost no comedy in the film.
While there are significantly less comedic moments, I was surprised there were as many as there were which, in retrospect, servers well to break up the huge plot twist and the overall tone of the film.
At over two and a half hours, the film seems to be fairly neatly broken into two main stages, being about an hour/hour and a half of set up, and a good hour or so of fast paced robotic violence to round off the film.
All in all, Transformers: Dark of the Moon is going to be a must see for a lot of fans around the world - a pleasant middle to a summer of movies.
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