A lot of people kept telling me this movie is awesome..its a must watch for the awesome cgi ..and so on and so forth..and so when my lab mates where going for a late night show..I decided to tag along.I do have to accept that the big dollars spent on the cgi and also as a result of the use of the special 3D camera,transformers 3 reels up some amazing graphics but it is nowhere nearly as immersing as Avatar.What James Cameron understood (and what Michael Bay is totally incapable of understanding) is that 3d is not just about throwing objects at the audience but more about making the audience forget that they are in the theatre and become engrossed in the movie environment.
The best way to describe this movie is cataclysmic porn.Nobody relates to any of the characters,Nobody cares about the story , people just want to see some robot on robot action :).I am a huge fan of the transformer animated series,but here ,in most of the scenes,I was truly unable to differentiate between autobots and the decepticons mainly due to all the mayhem and confusion exemplified by the fast swirling camera.If you don’t know much about transformers,the only way to tell the Decepticons from the Autobots is that the former have red eyes while the latter have blue eyes. Pretty tough to differentiate in the heat of battle with a shaky cam.Another way is probably (suggested by a friend)...autobots are the ones with gay colours..and decepticons are the ones with cool powers.. Atleast in the previous movies,there was atleast an effort to join the fight scenes with some kind of storyline(however pathetic) but this movie seemed very discontinuous with it jumping from one fight sequence to another.The last one hour is jam packed with a lot of fight scenes with the same thing happening again and again...a group of humans show lot of bravery....a robot does a lot of damage to their surroundings very conveniently not hurting any of them...and then just when the robot decides that its time to harm some humans..the autobots swoop in and save the day.
The "action" is relentless in its monotony. Robots pounding on robots. Humans launching rockets and missiles at robots. Robots wiping out troops of humans.This stuff goes on and on and on, far beyond what's necessary for a brain dead motion picture that has nothing to recommend it except its technical prowess. We certainly get the point before the 150-minute mark.
Coming to the acting,the robots emote better than Rosie Huntington.She accomplishes the unthinkable of making Megan Fox look like a talented Thespian. Shia labeouf is just plain irritating..somebody please tell him to shut up..he just keeps yapping on and on in the hope that a big voice will compensate for his small stature.Basically,the Transformers are more colourful than the humans.The only solid performances were from John Malkovich and John tuturro in minor roles who provides some comic(more specifically overall) relief.
An awesome and most apt description summing up all the transformers movies would be..
There are battles. Things blow up. Human actors give inferior performances to machines. An attractive woman is unabashedly presented as a sex object. More things blow up. A city is levelled, with the destruction lovingly crafted and presented. And, in the end, it comes to a smashdown between Optimus Prime and Megatron(which was surprisingly very short in the new movie).
In a nutshell,the story doesn't make any sense, the characters are annoying, the action is dull and repetitive, and during machine-on-machine throwdowns, it's impossible to figure out who the good guys are.
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