But it’s heavily damaged, eventually crashing on earth’s moon circa 1962.Ī U.S. A spacecraft called the Ark flees carrying a piece of Autobot technology that would have won them the war and saved their planet. War continues to rage on the far-away planet of Cybertron between the oppressive Decepticons and the noble Autobots. Yet Kruger devises a fairly easy to follow story – one that may not develop as thoroughly as it needs to but that has clearly defined stakes and comes together more cohesively than you might think.īay opens the film with a fun play on history. The story is still overstuffed it goes on for way too long and it can’t shake the annoying urge to be crude. Ehren Kruger is given solo screenwriter duties and the movie benefits from it. The first right move for “Dark of the Moon” was with its writer. That gets to “Dark of the Moon”, a nice turn back in the right direction yet one still hampered by some of the same nagging issues. But its 2009 sequel, “Revenge of the Fallen” was an abysmal disappointment which saw the series take shoddy writing and big screen excess to some annoying levels. The first film from 2007 was a fun, nostalgic, and action-packed blockbuster. The third installment of the (mostly) lucrative Transformers film series had a tough hill to climb. (With a new Transformers movie looming I thought it would be good to watch and review some of the franchise’s films I have yet to review.)
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