Movie Review - Transformers 4 : Age Of Extinction (spoilers)

[Sinnertwin]

The most interesting thing for me was the increasing subversiveness of the films. Plenty has been written about the casual sexism and racism of the previous movies, but this film introduced what I think is the first TF film F-bomb and more than a hint of some almost-hentai action towards the main female protagonist, Tessa.

IIRC, Mikaela drops the F bomb (or variation of) during RoTF when the medic is applying the defibrilator to Sam after he got blown up. It's buried under the music & other sounds

[BigTransformerTrev]

I don't even try and compare the movies to other Transformer universes anymore, I just look at it as it's own take on the world and gee it's made me a lot more forgiving. Hence why when Optimus is shooting Fraiser I don't go "Optimus would never do that" because it's kinda interesting to see a take on him where he would.

*Pro's:
*Dinobots looked awesome! Slug and Strafe looked better than I thought they would in particular
*Gritty and much darker than other flicks
*Humans killed - yay!
*First half of flick was really good
*Pissed off Optimus killin' mo-fos!
*Hound was pretty cool - loved it when he shot the alien in the cage!
*Lockdown was awesome!
*Crosshairs was good, Drift wasn't too bad
*Bumblebee was not on screen 10 times more than any other character
*Welker as Galvatron!
*Fights!
*Spaceships!
*Explosions!

Cons:
*Could have cut a half hour out easy
*Too much human stuff as always, when the bald dude nd the asian chick were riding the motorbike was when I hit the wall for tolerating yet another gratuitious human action scenes
*Optimus can suddendly fly at the end?
*Marky Mark says to the bald dude one line on the phone and suddely baldy throws out his whole plan and swaps sides? Too easy
*Would have liked to see the Dinobots come in earlier
*Pre-plan the movies you fools! You have Galvatrons voice for Sentinel Prime, then Megatrons voice for Galvatron. Still cool to hear the voice though
*Not enough of Galvatrons army
*The boyfriend character was pretty useless/one dimensional
*Would have been good to see Drift as a proper triple changer rather than he just changed what his alt-form turned into. Turning from car to copter would have been sweet!


But yeah, you need to look at these movies as a bit of mindless fun and if you can manage it then I thought the movie was very enjoyable

[Omega Metro]

For some reason I laughed when Grimlock transformed into a Dino and Drift said something like.......'I was expecting a large car'.

I'm watching it again on the weekend so will probably pick up on a few bits and pieces.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

You know, if you changed the impressive computer action to props, these movies would probably be derided as rubbish and at best become quirky cult hits.

Bay's Transformer movies are nothing more than a bad video game with really nice graphics.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, Bumblebee's reference to Stinger as a knockoff made me lol.
My issue w/ Drift as a triple changer is the absence of helicopter parts in robot mode. I can accept that these are alien looking robots, but they should have noticable alt mode kibble. All I see are Bugatti Veyron kibble but no chopper kibble. It's as if he transforms into a Bugatti but magically morphs into a helicopter. :/ If you want to do a triple changer, fine... but IMHO I'd rather see kibble from both alt modes to visually remind the audience that he does transform (not morph) into both alt modes.

But yeah, you need to look at these movies as a bit of mindless fun and if you can manage it then I thought the movie was very enjoyable

But Transformers deserves so much more respect than that IMO. I see no reason why we can't have a live action movie with decent story-telling. JMO

[Mythirax]

For some reason I laughed when Grimlock transformed into a Dino and Drift said something like.......'I was expecting a large car'.

Haha yeah, that really cracked me up. I also loved it when T.J Miller said something like "Stranger from the Cornfields" to Jack Reynor

[redhot_rodimus]

Were the Dinobots in Lockdown's ship? and Optimus free them right?
the spaceship they stole

[ILikeSoundwave]

Were the Dinobots in Lockdown's ship? and Optimus free them right?
the spaceship they stole

Yep.

[DELTAprime]

I didn't like it.

The humans ruin it for me. You know what would make a great TF5? Do what IDW did and get rid of the humans, I don't care what Steven "I made Jurassic Park" Spielberg says. It's not a movie about humans! It's a movie about Transformers!

Oh and the treatment of the Autobots is worse than ever. Bay seems to think they are all canon fodder and just keeps killing them. Guess what Bay, it didn't go down well for Hasbro in 1986 and it still doesn't go down well today.

That said I really want to see more of the Quintesson's.

[MayzaPrime]

I like the fact that Bay (well the writers anyway) are killing off the good guys. I think it is actually refreshing for a movie, that pretty much everyone (except Prime and Bee) are not safe. What annoys me is when Transformers don't appear in the next movie with no explanation. Atleast AoE tried to address this by saying that the bots were being hunted and showed Ratchet and Leadfoot all meeting there ends.

I think the movie should be called Transformers Battle of the Repaints. Stinger is basically a clone of Bumblebee, Galvatrons vehicons were clones of each other.

The Human element did annoy me, but no where to the level of RoTF. I liked Mark as Cade, and found him a much better lead than Shia. The over protective Dad did get rather boring however it did make me laugh at the short shorts joke. Nicola was ok, but you can tell Bay was on a thigh gap mission as all shots of Nicola was mostly from behind.

Overall a very enjoyable movie that went to long. But I rate it as one of the best.

I would have loved more Dinobot action, but I think that we will see more in the next movies.