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I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

I wanted to wait to write a review for this until after I saw Age of Extinction because I thought perhaps my dislike of this film was based on improper expectations rather than the film itself. Well, Age of Extinction was pretty good... Dark of the Moon was not. There is a lot of action and a lot of transforming robots, so if you are just in it for that you should be fine to watch it. If you expect a decent story or to be "pulled into" the movie, well that won't happen. Honestly this movie was dull. You don't need to see this movie to follow Age of Extinction, I would have to recommend skipping this one.

The third installment of the transforming robot series continues to alter history, this time focusing on the moon landing. Michael Bay continues to bring spectacle with space battles and wild robot fights. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) seeks out employment while living off of a new girlfriend Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whitley) in Washington DC. His mom Judy (Julie White) and dad Ron (Kevin Dunn) are traveling across the country in a trailer. Bumblebee and other Autobots work with Lennox (Josh Duhamel) to stop human conflicts. In Chernobyl, Optimus Prime and his team encounter a giant snake transformer, Shockwave and find an engine part from an old Autobot ship.Sam goes to job interviews until he is hired by Bruce Brazos (John Malkovich) though it is disappointing for Sam to be working in the mailroom after saving the world twice. Supervising the Autobots is Director of National Intelligence Charlotte Mearing (Frances McDormand). Carly works for a curator Dylan (Patrick Dempsey) who flirts with her making Sam jealous. Optimus seeks out Sentinel Prime buried on the moon. Megatron hides out in Africa ordering the assassination of anyone involved in the Decepticons new plot. A coworker Jerry (Ken Jeong) watches Sam and warns him but it's too late as Jerry is thrown out the window by Soundwave's bird spy.Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

(Originally seen many years ago) How can a film with non-stop action be utterly boring, I keep asking myself this during some of these action films', we know Transformers is trash, it's from schlock man Michael Bay, but still how did he manage to make a film 3 and a half hours long, and forget to include a plot, character development, a coherent script and an actual story, it's a mystery I guess. No need to trash this too much, it's simply awful, and utterly boring from start to finish which some of the worst acting I have ever seen and manages to be even worse than the previous Transformers films. Michael Bay's third Transformers film is an utterly dreadful, tiresome, atrocious piece of garbage. 0/10

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is by far my favorite of the original Trilogy there's more action than ever and although there's a lot of destruction porn it makes sense because you know Giant Robot from Space attack the earth and nobody is safe. Also as much as i liked Mikaela i liked Carly way more i mean common the chick was a strong woman and not some dumb blonde she basically stood up against Megatron and made him understand his big mistake which was following Sentinel Prime which was a much better and interesting character than the Fallen also the humor most of the time totally delivers in this one except when Ken Jeong shows up even John Malkovich did a nice job, Patrick Dempsey also did a great job and the most shocking part was Shia LaBeouf is actually a bit more serious in this film every scene with him and Optimus or bumblebee was totally magnificent and very very well done on it's dramatic moments. Also the soundtrack is much much better in this one if they chose to go from Transformers to this instead of Revenge of the Fallen things would have worked so so much better. The Transformers Saga is full of Michael Bay stuff but look at the bright side those movies could have been directed by M. Night Shyamalan or Paul Feig now that would have been way worse!!!