Transformers: Age of Extinction - Review
After the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons that leveled Chicago, humanity thinks that all alien robots are a threat. So Harold Attinger, a CIA agent, establishes a unit whose sole purpose is to hunt down all of them. But it turns out that they are aided by another alien robot who is searching for Optimus Prime. Cade Yeager, a "robotics expert", buys an old truck and upon examining it, he thinks it's a Transformer. When he powers it up, he discovers it's Optimus Prime. Later, men from the unit show up looking for Optimus. He helps Yeager and his daughter Tessa escape but are pursued by the hunter. They escape and Yeager learns from technology he took from the men that a technology magnate and defense contractor named Joshua Joyce is part of what's going on, so they go to find out what's going on.
The last Transformers film was going to be the end of that franchise but, after winning so much money with it they couldn't let it go just like that. Instead, they started a new trilogy with a new bunch of actors and some new Transformers and updated versions of the ones we already know from the last trilogy.
I'm going to be honest, I kinda enjoyed the last film, it was quite fun (I didn't expected a masterpiece just a fun movie to watch) but I never liked any of the actors (maybe John Turturro was good but not that great). I was some hopes that the new actors could renew the franchise and make it better. I remember Michael Bay saying this film was going to be more serious and more story-centred...but I was quite wrong.
The actors do the best they can to help this movie, all of them do a good job especially Mark Wahlberg, Kelsey Grammer and Stanley Tucci...the last one, Mr. Tucci saves the movie in every scene he appears with his funny/sarcastic comedy. But, as I said, even if the actors do a good work the movie can't be helped as the main fault is the plot and the character development as it has none.
The plot is too bad, the goverment now wants to destroy the Autobots because they made an agreement with a Transformer from outer space who's searching for every Transformer remaining in the universe, he's following the rules from "The Creator" of life. The humans, in exchange of helping this bounty hunter, will recieve an alien "Seed", a bomb that can cyberbomb any area of land, giving them the same material the Transformers are made of, so they can create new robots (this time, human-made) and control them at their will. At the end and after a non-sense fight involving the DinoBots (I must say that scene with the metal dinosaurs was amazing) they use the same seed to destroy the bad guy and nothing bad happens (the explosion is not that big as I was expecting...). Then the movie ends with Optimus Prime leaving Earth looking for those Creators who want them to disappear... I'm not saying it is a bad plot but...it is if you compare it to other ones...
Now for the thing these films are made for, the action and sci-fi sequences, they are great and very realistic but they have been downgraded from the last movies, they don't look that impressive as they used to be. Another thing about these scenes is their length, they are very, very long and very repetitive, especially the last fight from the movie which I think it's almost 1 entire hour-long, it becomes boring after the first 20 minutes...this mades this film the longest from the franchise with 2 hours and 45 minutes!
· The Best: The cast has done, at last, a good job - The Dinobots are amazing - Special Effects are very realistic but...
· The Worst: Not as realistic as the last films - The action scenes are too long and repetitive - The plot is awful
After hearing who was the main cast, I was expecting to see this franchise to be reborn and become a better one than the last trilogy but even if the actors have done a good job, it wasn't enough to save this long-boring movie with the same action scenes from the last movies...The actors and the Dinobots save it.
The last Transformers film was going to be the end of that franchise but, after winning so much money with it they couldn't let it go just like that. Instead, they started a new trilogy with a new bunch of actors and some new Transformers and updated versions of the ones we already know from the last trilogy.
The actors do the best they can to help this movie, all of them do a good job especially Mark Wahlberg, Kelsey Grammer and Stanley Tucci...the last one, Mr. Tucci saves the movie in every scene he appears with his funny/sarcastic comedy. But, as I said, even if the actors do a good work the movie can't be helped as the main fault is the plot and the character development as it has none.
The plot is too bad, the goverment now wants to destroy the Autobots because they made an agreement with a Transformer from outer space who's searching for every Transformer remaining in the universe, he's following the rules from "The Creator" of life. The humans, in exchange of helping this bounty hunter, will recieve an alien "Seed", a bomb that can cyberbomb any area of land, giving them the same material the Transformers are made of, so they can create new robots (this time, human-made) and control them at their will. At the end and after a non-sense fight involving the DinoBots (I must say that scene with the metal dinosaurs was amazing) they use the same seed to destroy the bad guy and nothing bad happens (the explosion is not that big as I was expecting...). Then the movie ends with Optimus Prime leaving Earth looking for those Creators who want them to disappear... I'm not saying it is a bad plot but...it is if you compare it to other ones...
Now for the thing these films are made for, the action and sci-fi sequences, they are great and very realistic but they have been downgraded from the last movies, they don't look that impressive as they used to be. Another thing about these scenes is their length, they are very, very long and very repetitive, especially the last fight from the movie which I think it's almost 1 entire hour-long, it becomes boring after the first 20 minutes...this mades this film the longest from the franchise with 2 hours and 45 minutes!
· The Best: The cast has done, at last, a good job - The Dinobots are amazing - Special Effects are very realistic but...
· The Worst: Not as realistic as the last films - The action scenes are too long and repetitive - The plot is awful
After hearing who was the main cast, I was expecting to see this franchise to be reborn and become a better one than the last trilogy but even if the actors have done a good job, it wasn't enough to save this long-boring movie with the same action scenes from the last movies...The actors and the Dinobots save it.
6.0
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