Movie Review - Transformers 3 Dark of The Moon - post mortem

Yes guys ! I have finally watched arguably the most-awaited movie for 2011 and that is Optimus Prime and his Autobots having a go at one of the most nastiest fights against their long-time enemy , The Decepticons.

The movie was officially launched on 29th June 2011 in Malaysia and honestly, being the cautious me, I always want to book first before actually going to the movies. I tried booking the movie on the 27th itself(which is 2 days before the official launch, and guess what! Its fully booked!!!). That's how bad people really want to go and watch it. I somehow managed to obtain the tickets by forcing my wife who works at Mutiara Damansara to go and buy the tickets during her lunch time. While queuing up for popcorn, I noticed they were selling this combo that includes a Transformers cup that has a transformers toy on top of it(yes! on top of it). I decided to go for it since its supposedly the last installment for the film. It costs RM 16.50 and I only managed to get "Megatron" as the rest is out of stock.

Yes, I only managed to get 'Megatron' ..the rest is out of stock.. =(

The movie started strongly with the main point of impressing the audience on how huge the transformers compared to us humans by showing Neil Armstrong's first step to the moon and relating it to him discovering alien lifeforms who turns out to be a transformer. Not forgetting Optimus Prime's story-telling about the war that went on at Cybertron and how the Autobots finally lost the war. Then comes in the main characters of Carly and Sam played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Shia LeBouef respectedly, who I might say, plays the role of Cary and Sam really well throughout the entire movie. They both adds seriousness and humor to the movie and its always important to keep the crowd entertained. Rosie mostly defied my judgement that she might just be another "Megan Fox" who cannot act and just filling the role of "female heroin" kinda role just to show a bit of skin, however, she has proven otherwise by showing some strong acting in the movie(she does play an important role towards the end of the movie at a particular point).

Another surprise inclusion is the role for Dylan, who is played by Patrick Dempsey. In an active attempt to join forces with The Decepticons so just to make sure they spare him when they take over the world, he was the bad guy in this movie other than Megatron himself and Sentinel Prime. Speaking of Megatron, his role in this third installment went to a bit-part role and Sentinel Prime instead took the main role of destroying the Autobots. They did destroy the entire Chicago City and manage to take control of it in the movie.

To summarise things up, the entire show will keep you at the edge of your seats, hope each of you manage to get a comfortable cushion as it will be a long 2 and a half hours of action-packed robot bustling and violent fights, not forgetting building tumbling action once the war starts. Michael Bay this time took the effort to actually go into little details about the storyline and involved more humans in the fight. Soldiers are becoming more and more significant during the war and they are very important indeed in turning the tide against the Decepticons.

I am praying and hoping there will be a fourth installment in the horizon, but as Michael Bay said, he wont be directing it, and so does Shia LeBouef who also said that he might not want to do a fourth installment. However, if the sales is good, and the reviews are good, why not go for a fourth ? I guess it all bores down to the money.