| Cast | Shia LaBeouf, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Frances McDormand, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Dempsey, Hugo Weaving, Peter Cullen |
| Director | Michael Bay |
| Banner | Paramount Pictures |
| Writer | Ehren Kruger |
| Runtime | 157 Minutes |
Its Autobots vs. Decepticons time again!! Get ready to meet all your favourite Autobots, Decepticons and many other new characters, along with Sam Witwicky, Seymour Simmons, Major Lennox and the rest. In this latest instalment of the Transformers series, we have the Autobots learning about a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the dark side of the Moon. The Autobots and the Decepticons are on a race to get to the spacecraft, and take possession of what's inside. The Autobots identify the spacecraft as the Ark, which was piloted by the great Sentinel Prime, mentor of Optimus Prime.
The landing of Apollo 11 on the moon is seamlessly woven into this story, and it shows that President Kennedy pushed NASA to ensure that it was the Americans who were the first to land on the moon, to beat the Russians in finding out what the unidentified object on the moon was. The Autobots, working with the NEST team, help in identifying and taking out an illegal Middle-Eastern nuclear plant. It is now that Optimus Prime stumbles upon a fuel cell, and upon questioning Charlotte Mearing (Frances McDormand), gets to know about Apollo 11 and the details of the mission. Wanting to investigate it further, Optimus and Ratchet take a ship to the moon, and closely inspect the Ark. Here, they find a weakened Sentinel Prime and five metal pillars.
Sam Witwicky has graduated from college, and has won a Presidential medal of honour, but all these are not enough to land him a job. The only job that he lands is that of a mail room employee at a technology firm run by an eccentric Bruce Bezos (John Malkovich). Sam is now residing in Washington D.C. With his new girlfriend Carly Spencer (Rosie Huntington-Whitley), who works for a car collector boss Dylan Gould (Patrick Dempsey). Dylan is constantly hitting on Carly, gives her expensive gifts, and invites her to parties at his place. Sam is accosted by his co-worker Jerry Wang (Ken Jeong), who gives him a lot of papers and clippings that talk about the dark side of the moon, before jumping out of his office window to his death.
Meanwhile, Optimus and Ratchet resurrect Sentinel with the Matrix of Leadership, and investigations into the mystery of the metal pillars begin. Sam gets involved in the investigations against Carly's wishes, as she has already lost her brother to a war involving the Transformers. Sam enlists the help of now retired Seymour Simmons, and they discover the secret behind the pillars and the reason for Sentinel being left behind. This starts a chain reaction of events, wherein Sentinel turns rogue, destroys half of Chicago, and creates a spacebridge with the pillars to bring Cybertron near the Earth's atmosphere, resurrect it with resources from Earth using humans as slaves. The Autobots learn that Sentinel had earlier entered into a deal with Megatron and is hence on the side of the Decepticons.
The Autobots are led to be exiled from Earth. The spacecraft that they leave in is ambushed and gunned down by Starscream, leading to people thinking that Optimus and all the Autobots are dead. Meanwhile Carly is taken prisoner, the Decepticons are taking over the country and running amok. Will Sam be able to save the day once again? What happened to the Autobots? Will Earth's resources be stripped off? Will all humans end up being slaves? Watch the movie to know the rest!
The action sequences, the realistic special effects and the 3D effects are gripping. The director has ensured that a lot of commercial elements are thrown in to keep the viewers engrossed in the movie from beginning to end. Though logic may be missing at some points and the storyline might seem a little weak, the other aspects more than compensate. Michael Bay has ensured that he has come up with another winner in the Transformers franchise! Head over to a theatre near you to catch all the action in 3D, and have an action packed ride with the Transformers!
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