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Shia LaBeouf plays Sam Witwicky in “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” |
It takes about an hour and a half for Michael Bay’s shrill and noisy action thriller “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” to get to the good stuff.
And when I write “good stuff,” I really mean the stuff that’s not as bad as the stuff in the rest of the movie.
At the 95-minute mark, the battle between the bad Decepticons and the good Autobots comes to the Windy City where we see our beloved skyscrapers and favorite stores blown to smithereens, torn to pieces and reduced to rubble.
That’s fun for a while.
Still, “Dark of the Moon” is one of the dumbest, silliest alien invasion movies to come down the cinematic pipeline since “Skyline.”
At least Bay’s second “Transformers” sequel is a slight improvement over his first, “Revenge of the Fallen,” which featured three main characters being “killed,” then being magically resurrected.
Shia LaBeouf stars once again as Sam, who has gone from an American hero to a college grad desperately looking for work.
His new girlfriend, Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, bumping out Megan Fox from the earlier films), looks like a fashion model with other redeeming features. She’s employed by the wealthy and lecherous Dylan (Patrick Dempsey), who has his eye on Carly.
Bay doesn’t handle women characters very well, but then he doesn’t handle the men much better. (Read more…)