In the third installment of Michael Bay’s Transformers film franchise, Optimus Prime discovers that the US government had lied to him about their knowledge of the existence of his race. What he discovers is that the world famous moon landing was a US recon mission to investigate an Autobot ship that had crash landed on the dark side of the moon. Optimus and his Autobots go to the ship where they find their previous leader, Sentinal Prime (voiced by Leonard Nemoy), in stasis lock. The Decepticon leader Megatron, who is now starting to lose his mind, quickly learns of Sentinal Prime’s awakening and sends his minions to claim the experimental technology that Sentinal’s ship was carrying. Sam Witwicky, who is now starting his career, once again gets swooped up into the melee, and must do what he can to aid his friends, the Autobots, in saving planet Earth.
Michael Bay openly apologized in interviews for the poor quality of the previous two films. While I thought the first Transformer’s movie was good, the second film, Rise of the Fallen, sucked, and I’m happy that Bay admitted it. That said, I’ve just seen this movie once, but my first impression is that Dark of the Moon might be the best one done so far. The transformers themselves were finally written as characters rather than plot elements, giving them much richer personalities. Like I said, Megatron is starting to go insane, and this was shown nicely. The story is solid and moves well through the two and a half hour runtime.
Personal Note: Many fans applauded the fact that Megan Fox did not return, but I did not have any problem with her. It’s not her fault the second movie sucked. On the other hand, I did not miss her in this movie. Good action and very well done fx make this one you’ll want to catch in theaters or get on Blu-Ray.
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