When a mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day it threatens to bring a war to Earth so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save us.

One should learn from ones failures and this holds very true for any movie franchise. Sadly Transformers seems intent on not learning from its downfalls and instead just repeating them over and over but in just smaller doses. Everything that was wrong with the second film rears its ugly head once more in the third installment. From really bad juvenile humor, annoying characters, bad accents on characters, horrible pacing, a bloated story and way too much focus on Shia Labeouf s character instead of where the focus should be the Transformers. The only complaint I had about the first film though is easily fixed in this one and that is they zoom out of the action instead of in on it and you get to see all the glorious action and breathtaking fight. That is the sole redeeming quality to this film, the amazing action and fight sequences now if they could have just fixed the story the film might have been great.

I do grant you that all those annoying things from the second film are a lot less prevalent in this one but they are still there. It is hard to enjoy a film that just seems so full of itself and can’t even remember why the first one was so good. The film is a bloated mess that needed about an hour of it cut to the cutting room floor and left there to rot. The film starts out great with some very fun historical filming of the Apollo moon landing and seems like it has so much potential. But then it spends the next hour or so going nowhere and just spinning its wheels as you the audience is lost in complete boredom. There was one point I looked at my watch and said come on get on with the film already. Then of course the film ends in spectacular and grand fashion that leaves you with your breath taken away. The final battle and action sequence was simply put the best of all three films and was just amazing. The problem was it took over an hour of sheer boredom and a horribly bloated and pointless story to get there. If you condense that whole middle portion of the film the movie would have actually been pretty good but sadly they didn’t hire an editor for the film it appears.

I am also not sure how the films became about Shia Labeouf and his character Sam but for some reason they focus on his very boring and whiny character for a vast majority of the film instead of the autobots or decepticons. He gives one of the most horrible performances in the film too almost like he took a soap opera acting class in overacting and decided to ham it up until someone kicked him off the soundstage which sadly no one did. The film needed to focus more on the Transformers and not Shia who seemed intent on sinking the entire franchise. By the end you almost wish for a stray bullet to take him out and put him and you out of your misery.

Shia Labeouf wasn’t alone in the overacting for the movie as it seemed everyone was told to ham it up as well. The second worst might have been John Turturro who comes back for what seems the sole purpose of just being annoying and to try and save Shia from being the only one who can’t act. Then of course there is the eye candy to replace Megan Fox as the new girlfriend in Rosie Huntington-Whiteley who adds nothing to the film just as Megan Fox also added nothing to the films. If it weren’t for the amazing conclusion to this film and the entertaining opening it would have been a complete waste of time. But the two ends of the sandwich almost saved the crappy rotten core that got crammed between them making the film half decent but just half.

Grade: C