Wednesday, September 7, 2011

INCEPTION Trailer - 50's Version!


What if Alfred Hitchcock made Inception?

Transformers: @#$% of the Moon Review

Hello Moviegoers! I got a chance to see a lot of films this summer, but there are a couple that I missed. So I decided to see “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” at the cheap show. I mean this was a second run theater so each ticket only cost three bucks. However, I still felt ripped off.

I wanted to like this movie. I really did. I loved the first Transformers movie. There was something about it that made it an enjoyable action film. It had its flaws, but I enjoyed it overall. The same cannot be said about its sequel, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”. That film was an insufferable mess. It had fantastic visuals, but the story was so convoluted, the characters were either very annoying or underwritten, and it suffered from an unbearable run time of 2 hours and 30 minutes.

The third, and hopefully the last in the series, film is called “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”. Fortunately it is slightly better than the last one, but that is not saying much. This time the film deals with an alternate history/conspiracy plot about the space race and the 1969 moon landing. It starts out promisingly, but the story gets convoluted and messy and it loses focus. Eventually, it ends up being a clash between the Decepticons and Autobots, with the aid of their human allies. Shia LaBeouf returns as the protagonist, Sam Witwicky, and this time he is severely unlikable. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who plays Sam’s new girlfriend, is actually a worse actress than Megan Fox. The rest of the characters were uninteresting and underdeveloped. Plus the run time really drags this film down, just like the previous one.

As much as I dislike this film, the visuals are well done. The guys at ILM really know how to make a movie look spectacular. There are even a couple of scenes that really made the film spectacular like an inventive sequence set inside a building about to topple, but scenes like these cannot save the film from an overly long final battle.

I know I am not expecting Oscar caliber material. I enjoy some big dumb summer blockbusters. However, there is a point when you just have to draw the line. If you enjoyed the last two Transformers, then you will probably like this one. However, I am done with this series. I am done with the subpar acting, tortuous story, flat characters, juvenile humor, and the tedious fight scenes that go on forever. 1/5