Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
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- Cast：
- Shia LaBeouf , Josh Duhamel , John Turturro , Tyrese Gibson , Rosie Huntington-Whiteley , Frances McDormand , John Malkovich
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Simply A Masterpiece
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Fantastic!
Admirable film.
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
I have to give director Michael Bay a great deal of credit in this Transformers series. He manages to make three movies that are basically all just carbon copies of each other and make them all at the very least entertaining. That is no small feat. Thus, although the luster of the franchise begins to wear off (especially towards the film's conclusion) in this installment, "Dark of the Moon" still is an entertaining romp that won't leave you bored.For a basic plot summary, "Dark of the Moon" formulates the notion that the Apollo 11 moon landing was merely a "smokescreen" for the retrieval of alien (i.e. Transformer) technology. Many years later, this technology predictably falls into the wrong hands and leaves the fate of the world to Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and his military buddies (Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, & John Turturro).The positives of this movie are the usual: the special effects are a spectacle to behold, the action/adventure is pulse-pounding, and it is just a visual treat to watch. More importantly, though, is that the franchise still goes as LaBeouf goes. Though his exuberance for the Sam Witwicky role seems to have diminished just a bit (and perhaps that can be attributed to the character's aging as well), but his scenes are still the best of the experience.Sadly, this movie also has a few notable "misses" that render it only slightly above average. First of is the utter exclusion of Megan Fox's character. I realize that Fox had a falling-out with Bay and wanted nothing to do with this movie, but the fact remains is that her stand-in (supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) has nowhere near that great romantic chemistry with LaBeouf. Rose is just as "bombshell" as Fox, but acting-wise it isn't even close.Also, in this third go-'round, the general plot begins to get the slightest bit old. It is never boring, per se, but it doesn't have that "edge" like the first two did when the characters were still fresh.Overall, "Dark of the Moon" is a decent effort that doesn't end up boring in any way. The exclusion (and no explanation) of Fox is the biggest missing piece here, but other than that it is pretty much "same old story" (with just slightly less enthusiasm all around).
Transformers Dark of the Moon! was to me The Best Movie ever! and i did hear about the 4th sequel Age of Extinction but Haven't seen that recent Transformers movie but anyways. Dark of The Moon was Not that bad of a movie it seemed pretty good. and it was listed at Number 2 of The Highest Crossing Movies of the year 2011. so anyways the Plot of the Movie starts off with In 1961, the Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft carrying an invention capable of ending the war between the benevolent Autobots and the malevolent Decepticons, crash lands on the dark side of Earth's Moon. and you the Cast too doesn't Star Meghan Fox she was replaced by Rosie Huntington- Whiteley and also her boyfriend Sam Witwicky. so anyway the auto-bots of transformers are also in it like Bumblbee Optimus Prime and the rest of them. and the Sound Effects was pretty good and decent and the good fight scenes and even towards the End of the Movie was great too. This Movie deserves a good rating for a Transformers movie I Mean it didn't seem bad at all. but what Dark of the Moon could have improved was the casting or the minutes of how long the movie ran. that's all but still Dark of the Moon was not a bad movie and i Think it surpassed any 2011 movie.
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!!!
