After half an hour it turns into the same headbanging, eardrum-brutalising action-fest as the other two films, with the trademark scenes of civilians walking into airstrips and military facilities, crammed with Pentagon weaponry and tough guys walking around in tight black T-shirts, and soon coming to experience Bay's own awestruck respect for hardware and military personnel. Perhaps he now wants to show he's potentially capable of taking gentle hand-in-hand walks in the park with the frame, going to classical concerts with the frame, wearing matching duffel coats with the frame, comparing notes on Sylvia Plath with the frame, before giving the frame a chaste kiss on the cheek and going home on his own.īut let's face it, these touches are atypical. Bay famously described his frantic visual style as "fucking the frame". At the beginning, there are even tiny moments of calm. The 9/11-style skyscraper catastrophes in the final battle sequence are undoubtedly impressive, with a touch of Christopher Nolan. There are some high-end cameos from Frances McDormand and John Malkovich, and comedy turns from Alan Tudyk and Ken Jeong. The opening is a sprightly counter-factual fantasy, in the manner of Zack Snyder's Watchmen, about what really happened during the Apollo 11 moon landing of 1969. There are definitely bits of this third Transformers film that are … well … not quite as stupid. Bay has allowed his fingers to rest, thoughtfully, on the Stupid dial, and turned it fractionally anti-clockwise. Because this film is not quite as stupid as the others. It is as if Bay, perhaps influenced by some stinging critiques, has made an aesthetic policy decision. Though who she'll partner now LaBeouf has said he's had enough of the franchise remains to be seen.īut something strange has happened in this third Transformers movie. So Bay has now given our everyguy hero Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) an equally bootylicious new Brit girlfriend called Carly, played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. Female lead Megan Fox is out on her luscious behind – reportedly at co-producer Steven Spielberg's insistence – for jokingly comparing the decisive and forthright Mr Bay to Adolf Hitler. These are troubled times for Michael Bay's mega-decibel Transformers franchise about alien cars that transform into huge battling robots.
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