Big Al Reviews

Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis

  • Transformers: Age of Extinction (’14 review)

    Transformers: Age of Extinction (’14 review)

    3 outta 5 Michael Bay, director of The Rock, Pearl Harbour, two Bad Boys and now four Transformers movies, defiantly in his last Transformer outing, Dark of the Moon, broke his toys and walked away, seemingly forever.   Until, that is, his most recent entry, Transformers: Age of Extinction.  This instalment doesn’t reach the heights of…

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  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon (’11 review)

    Transformers: Dark of the Moon (’11 review)

    3 out of 5 There is entertainment in the bloated, tonally confused and downright excessive threequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon.  The script isn’t as clever as the first flick which slowly revealed the giant transforming robots however its story is much more coherent than the second one.  It also provides the requisite amount of…

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  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (’09 review)

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (’09 review)

    3 out of 5 Transfomers: Revenge of the Fallen suffers from sequel bloat.  By being bigger it loses what made the original special.  The flick bogs down in tedious plot diversions and some really lame characters, but what sells Revenge is unhinged destructiveness.  Are we so cynical that we can’t enjoy a three-story robot running…

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