'Transformers: Age of Extinction': Director Michael Bay is better at bots than people
The fourth 鈥�Transformers鈥� movie is offically titled 鈥淭ransformers: Age聽of Extinction,鈥� but don鈥檛 believe it. As long as this franchise continues to聽pump out cash, there will be no extinction on the horizon.
Reviewing a Transformers movie is a bit like reviewing a toy. In fact,聽it鈥檚聽exactly聽like reviewing a toy. I thought this 3-D Hasbro-Paramount聽production was better than the other three, but maybe that鈥檚 because I鈥檝e聽been pounded into submission. Who can really differentiate between聽these films anyway? In the end, they all devolve (evolve?) into clashing,聽clanging bots.
Mark Wahlberg plays Cade Yeager, a down-on-his-luck Texas inventor聽who buys an old pickup truck only to discover it鈥檚 actually Optimus聽Prime, the leader of the Autobots. Optimus, having saved the world, is聽nevertheless perceived by Washington鈥檚 power elite as a threat.聽Black Ops, Decepticon bounty hunters, government meanies 鈥� they鈥檙e聽all here, trying to take down the Good Guys, who include not only聽Optimus and Co., but also Cade and his daughter (Nicola Peltz), her聽race-car driver boyfriend (Jack Reynor), and, after a change of heart, a聽billionaire munitions inventor, played by Stanley Tucci with a gust of聽good humor that鈥檚 like a sweet tinkle amid this film鈥檚 vast clangor.聽
Director Michael Bay is otherwise better at directing bots than people.聽In fact, has anybody checked lately to see if he is not himself a聽Transformer?聽Grade:聽C+ (Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, language and brief innuendo.)
