I could fall in love with a robot, a machine, indeed, I have fallen for my first IPhone. And so I don't care if a movie is a machine or a movie about machines has been transformed into a machine.
but.
As "Transformer" has proven time after time, it is difficult to empathize with machines if the machines have no human characteristics. or the humans for that matter.
T3 is nearly exactly what you think it is: The bad transformers are back and ready to take on the world, the good transformer are to be banished, once the good transformers are out of the way, the bad transformers smash Chicago to pieces.
Meanwhile Shia Labeouf is awful reprising his role as the T's bff (except they lie to him -dunno why), John Turtorro is awful, just dreadful as… oh , why bother. there is no acting going on and I don't particularly care.
Look: all summer blockbusters are Jaws redux, get a buncha people you like and put em in a dangerous situation. The problem arises in getting people you like. Nobody is worse at this than T3. Nobody here is likable.
Except, well, she isn't really likeable, but Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in a mini skirt in 3D? Holy heck!
Oh year, the music? here is the tracklist:
1. Iridescent – Linkin Park
2. Monster – Paramore
3. The Only Hope For Me Is You – My Chemical Romance
4. Faith – Taking Back Sunday
5. The Bottom – Staind
6. Get Thru This – Art Of Dying
7. All That you Are – Goo Goo Dolls
8. Head Above Water – Theory Of A Deadman
9. Set The World On Fire – Black Veil Brides
10. Alive & Awake (Remix) – Skillet
11. Just Got Paid – Mastodon
The only song you'll notice is the Linkin Park and is as bad as the acting, worse. Irredeemable dross, the spawn of the devil, proof that evil is indeed banal.
Movie: C-
Music: D