So as I'm a big Transformers fan I went to see this today with a coupel of friends. Straight off I'd like to say I loved it, it was easily the best of the three movies and had a very nice storyline that managed to use a lot of historical events such as Chernobyl and the moon landings. Obviously there were new robots including my all time favourite Shockwave, and other old favourites such as Wheeljack (Q) and Lazerbeak Now before I go into to story or anything I'd just like to point out that this film is not like the others. It's brutal to say the least. Characters (who will not be named here) are mercilessly executed, which as everyoen has their own favourites will probably hit everybody in different ways. Even if you don't partiucularly liek them though the sturggles aren't exactly a nice thing to see. Again unlike the other movies, people die in this one, and nto just one or two, people are slaughtered, but I'm not going to go into detail here. My rundown and thoughts on the story: SPOILERED FOR GREAT JUSTICE >! The movie starts off as they usually do, Optimus giving a speech, it turns out an Autobot ship crashed on the moon containing the last hope for winnign the war, and naturally humans detected it and began the space race. That's that, we then get to see Sam Witwicky's incredibly hot and incredibly english new blowup doll, who's acting is marginally better than Megan Fox's but she's better eye candy too so I won't complain. Sam's looking for a job yadah yadah. >! The autobots are investigating Chernobyl where they find that russians were experimenting on a piece of the crashed ship. Also Shockwave attacks everybody with his pet and it's incredibly cool in 3D. Shockwave's introduced as some badass then doesn't appear again for about an hour and a half. Optimus is really pissed that humanity knew about the ship, and has a rant before going to the moon and finding the body of his mentor and original autobot leader Sentinal Prime. He revives him with the matrix and stores what few pieces fo their plan to win the war remain. >! Sam gets a job and is attacked by Lazerbeak, this movie isn't as human centered as the others. Megatron has been hiding in Africa after his accident in the last one where half his face was shot off by the already criminally insane Optimus Prime. He looks really creepy with half a face and I swear down I thought he was about to go one on one with a herd of elephants, that would have been awesome. Starscream is a winy female dog as usual. >! Some stuff happens we find out that Sentinal Prime betrays the autobots and joins Megatron. Optimus goes into overload with his pissed levels and Ironhide a brilliant character is shot in the back, then rusts from the inside out, getting a painful and undeserving death. I liked Ironhide this was not a good death for him, but it was brutal. Very very brutal. Sentinal escapes and wakes up an army fo decepticons who then come to earth and level Chicago., The bulk of the movie has begun. People are mercilessly chased down and shot despite having no way to combat the decepticons. The autobots are pretend exiled and everyone thinks everything is over. >! Sam goes into Chicago to find his blowup doll Optimus shoots stuff and a random decepticon is torn limb from limb as Optimus gives the very uncharacteristic command of 'kill all of them'. Some stuff happens and Sam is cornered by Starscream. Oh wow an awesome Starscream scene. No, Sam grapples into his eye then stabs the other one with a bomb. Starscream cries like a female dog and then his head explodes. We don't get an awesome fight, my friends spirit had been crushed by the pathetic death of his idol, I of course laughed at the tears runnign down his cheeks, his second favourite character died minutes later. Shockwave arrives and shoots everybody. Optimus then arrives and punches a hole in Shockwave because he's yet again being an executioner of 'cons. Optimus then fights Sentinal, Megatron shoots Sentinal in the back and calls for a truce, after all where would Optimus be without Megatron? >! DUCK YOUR TRUCE MEGATRON I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING INCREDIBLY UNCHARACTERISITC. I WILL RIP YOUR SPINE OUT OF YOUR BODY! He does this, I was certain by this point it wasn't Optimus, apparently though it was. Sentinal Pime begs for mercy but nope Optimus won't give him that. Why would the 100% good hero give a begging defenceless old man mercy? Shoot him in the face that's why. Sentinal is dead then Optimus goes on about how they won and the movie is over. A lot of people died, brutally. If you rewad that you'd see I concentrated on bad points, but the movie really isn't bad I just think it was rather uncharacteristic of Optimus. The story is solid and easy to follow unlike the last one and despite this there is ever more action, and even more explosions. If you liked the other two you should definatly see this, even if you didn't you should because this is a good film standalone, mind it does directly follow on from the last one.
