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Like its predecessors, the third Transformers film is loud, explosive, and somewhat satisfying in a hate-yourself-to-admit it kind of way. Director Michael Bay and screenwriter Ehren Kruger obviously took note of the criticism heaped upon the second film namely that the storyline was confusing if not incomprehensible and responded by having characters restate the central plot points in scene after scene. That is, until the second half of the movie, which is composed of one long, endless, loud, quick cutting, fireball-filled action sequence. At some point, the spectacle fades and exhaustion sets in. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune called the movie “A work of ineffable soullessness and persistent moral idiocy.” As of July 21 the film has made $303 million.