‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ a significant improvement on previous outing

If ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ is indeed Michael Bay's final entry in the Hasbro toy-inspired franchise, as he has repeatedly intimated, then it is a fitting swan song for a director whose lust - and gift - for spectacle remains unmatched.

Exhilarating and exasperating, awe-inspiring and stupefying, the third installment in the blockbuster alien-robot saga is less a movie than a prolonged manic episode. In other words, it's a Michael Bay film.