Transformers is back and doing what it does best, insulting the audiences intelligence. Once again Michael Bay believes that if he shows enough things being ripped apart and blown up that I'll forget all about the plot hole that all the Primes could fly through at the same time. If you don't know what a plot hole is here's a definition: A plot hole, or plothole, is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot, or constitutes a blatant omission of relevant information regarding the plot.
That definition pretty much sums up the whole Transformers movie franchise save this one.
That movie was awesome.Lets just look at "plot" for a second, this will be brief.
Humans discover an Autobot (good guys) ship on the moon that was carrying a very powerful Cybertronian, Sentinel Prime, and devices called "Columns" that act as a door to time and space. So they open a portal that teleports things. So the Autobots retrieve Sentinel and 5 of the "columns." But it was all a trap and Sentinel betrays the Autobots and joins the Decepticons (bad guys) so they can bring their home planet to earth and force the humans to rebuild it.
So...yeah, there's that. So lets look at some plot holes.
1. Where did the Decpticons get all these "Columns" and where are they keeping them?
So near the beginning of the film it shows Megatron and Starscream battered and bruised from their last battle. They have a small camp and are pretty much stripped down to nothing. Then at the end of the film, the Decepticons have hundreds of the Columns. Wait wait wait. What? You're telling me Megartron had hundreds maybe thousands of these things in that tiny camp? They were the only Decepticons on Earth so they had to have them. But they were never shown or talked about until the end of the film.
2. The government won't let Sam see his car because he doesn't have clearance, but at the end of the movie they are letting a random foreign bodyguard hack government systems?
You read it, I can't even explain it anymore than that.
3. Sentinel Prime declares Chicago secure only to be entered by about 100 humans and 10 robots.
So the bad guys are about to bring their plan all together! Chicago is theirs! Their home planet is almost arrived. "The city is secure!" says Sentinel Prime. Then 100 army troops and 10 giant robots enter the city unnocticed.
The next thing that bothered me is the attempt at humor. While it wasn't super offensive or gross in this film, it was still very distracting. For instance and NASA engineer on the Apollo 11 mission tells Sam about what they found on the Dark Side of the moon. He tries to be like Deep Throat, and pulls 2 guns on a Decepticon and dies a hero. Who do you think played this man? If you guessed that Asian guy from the Hangover, sadly, you are correct. Okay, Michael Bay, reason with me buddy. This man was giving Sam legit advice and doing cool stuff. Why do you have to make 4th grade homosexual jokes the whole time? How do you expect me to take this guy seriously?
The action was actually just mediocre. I was pretty mad when Autobots shot up innocent humans, the people they swore to protect. I was expecting a lot more, because the 2nd one had great action so I thought that this one would have taken a major step up. It was really just OK. The 3D wasn't spectacular. And the 1 major thing that made me the maddest was the Megatron fight. Megatron, the main villain for the whole Transformers franchise was defeated in 30 seconds. 3 strokes of a battle-axe and he was done.
So, overall really crappy movie. Stay away, save your money and if you want to see a good Transformers movie go get the 1986 animated version. I'll give it a 4/10 because I like the Transformers franchise minus the last 2 movies. And I'm happy that this is the last Shia/Michael Bay Transformers film.
"The battle is over, but the galaxy spaning adventures of the Transformers will continue and the greatest Autobot of them all-Optimus Prime-will return." -Transformers:The Movie (1986)
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