De collega's van /Film hebben een aantal eerste recensies van Michael Bays Transformers: Dark of the Moon verzameld en de highlights op een rij gezet. Uiteraard zijn we allen benieuwd of Bay zijn woord heeft gehouden en met waarschijnlijk de meest besproken film van het jaar revanche neemt op het voorgaande flink bekritiseerde deel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Maar als eerste een compleet nieuwe trailer:

Op Rotten Tomatoes staat Dark of the Moon voorlopig op 67%. Dit is 10% hoger dan Transformers uit 2007 en een stuk hoger dan de 20% van Revenge of the Fallen uit 2009. Op de IMDb heeft de derde Transformers film op dit moment een 7,5. De eerste twee delen kregen een 7,2 en een 5,9.

Hieronder vier van de quotes uit reviews van AICN, IGN, MovieWeb en HitFix. Check hier nog veel meer reviews. Klik op de links voor de complete review en check uiteraard ook de FilmTotaal recensie die snel online komt!

AICN: "TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON is simply the best film of the franchise - by a great deal." .... "this film is astonishing to watch in 3D. Easily the best 3D since AVATAR - and in many respects I think it is superior." ... "Personally, I'm looking forward to checking out the 3D again - that last hour is just jaw-dropping." ... "After I saw the film, my brain felt tired. Not from great thoughts, but from the experience of the film. It wore my brain out watching it. I found myself thinking about the set-ups Bay made to physically make this movie. The sheer volume of wow shots is spectacular. " ... "The action in this film is truly amazing work. Bay's talent for designing these shots is nothing short of amazing to watch. The physical look of everything is amazing. That I really kinda loved Shia's Sam in this film"

IGN: "it's certainly the best one in this hugely successful, but widely loathed franchise." ... "Transformers: Dark of the Moon definitely has more of a plot than either of its predecessors. There are genuine stakes this time, and it's the first Transformers film where you actually get some sense of physical or emotional consequence to the events that transpire. Mostly the film works because of its kick-ass 3D action scenes." ... "Bay's action scenes here are bigger, better and more brutal than any in the first two films, even though it's still tough at times to tell the robots apart in battle. That said, the 'bots have far more distinct personalities than in the past movies. When a 'bot dies here, you feel it unlike when Jazz bought it in the first film." ... "Its last hour is the full-on human vs. robot war film that the Terminator series has always promised but never delivered. Transformers: Dark of the Moon may not be a great film, but it is largely great fun."

MovieWeb: "Visually Transformers 3 is an amazing success and as with all Michael Bay films leaves the audience with the jaws dropped open by the amazing visuals and SFX. From the spaceships, to the outstanding explosions to the spectacular battle sequences are the most finest effects ever seen in an pure hardcore action flick. But the most outstanding final sequence of the destruction of chicago brilliant in its destruction that its just sheer beauty like watching the sun rise, then entering the destruction of the world, and the destruction just gets more climatic. Overall Transformers 3 is as fine and beautiful as a spectacle as it comes and it sets down and destroys the majority of the Summer blockbusters setting the limits down and making it near impossible for any other film to step in the ring with it." ... "THIS IS NOT A CINEMA OR THEATRE MOVIE....ITS AN IMAX 3D MOVIE."

HitFix: "For the first time since "Avatar," I am going to recommend that you find the biggest and best 3D theater you can find and buy yourself a ticket, because "Transformers: Dark Of The Moon," especially seen in IMAX 3D, is an overwhelming sensory experience. The sound mix alone is more exciting than anything in the billion-dollar-bore of "Pirates 4." This is gigantic action we've never seen before, and Bay's reaction to shooting and cutting his film for 3D is to get better at what he does. It raised his game, and as a result, I feel like we just saw a dare thrown down by one of Hollywood's biggest action specialists: "Top this." ... ""Transformers: Dark Of The Moon" is easily the best film in the series, and there's a solid hour-long action sequence in Chicago that uses everything Bay's ever done before, but all blended into one exhausting push to save one girl in the midst of a war involving two planets. It's the personal story on an apocalyptic scale that Bay loves to try to tell, and that other guys like Emmerich and Cameron and even Spielberg love to do. And this is the best version of it that Bay's made so far."