Steven Vincent Gee (husky10000years)

Screenwriter Ehren Kruger decided to take the easy way by repeating the same formula from the two previous movies: the Autobots and the Decepticons fight to each other in order to obtain a "mcguffin" which will bring them huge power, while the humanity looks terrorized, the government makes stupid mistakes and a small group of soldiers and civilians desperately fight in order to put the balance in the side of the "good ones". The human actors from Transformers: Dark of the Moon do not have very substantial material to work with once more. But I liked some exchanges between the giant robots. Their dialogs keep being badly written, but the conviction and intensity brought by the actors who made the voice work were enough to bring some dramatic force to those artificial characters. Talking about Spock, I liked the multiple references to Star Trek as well as some "easter eggs" Bay put on the screen (including the most employed background actor in the world). Those details made the intermediate hour, which is a bit tiring due to the slowness with which the supposed "conspiracy" is revealed, more tolerable. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a mediocre movie although it kept me moderately entertained despite the many fails from its screenplay.

The differences between the comic and the film do not only consist in the introduction of new characters and villains, but also in an essential change of the tone from the story. The graphic novel Red is a cruel and violent examination of the "price of freedom", and the havoc that causes in the soul of those who accept to commit atrocities in order to protect the interests from a country. On the contrary, the film Red tells a light and dynamic story, which is full of humor, but without neglecting the suspense and the emotions from the characters. The point is that the story may not be very original, but that is offset by its ingenious execution, the solid performances and the interesting characters, whose interaction with each other organically impulses the movie and wakes our interest in their destinies. Bruce Willis makes a competent work in the action scenes as well as in the dramatic ones. I also liked Mary Louise Parker's performance as Willis' character's love interest. However, I think that Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich bring the best performances, not only because they make their characters to be likable to the spectator, but also because of their subtle gestures which reveal the complexity of the personal story from their characters without words. Red may not be an excellent movie, but it's very entertaining.