- ★1/2 stars out of 5 stars
The glorious franchise of Michael Bay’s Transformers, now has reached to the 4th and still giving us the typical kind.
Transformers: Age of Extinction was screened last Wednesday here in the Philippines and I’ve seen it last night and what it left me was that of the same old, same feel Transformers 1, 2 and 3.
With the new cast members including Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yaeger, Nicola Peltz as his daughter, Tessa, Jack Reynor as Shane plus Kelsey Grammer and Stanley Tucci in the film.
The movie picks up five years after the disastrous Chicago battle in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, leaving all behind including the original cast.
The movie has the same style as with any other Transformers movie, and it somehow did not translate very well. Just like the other three, Age of Extinction has a very, very interesting and captivating beginning that will make you focus well on the screen but only for a short amount of time because you’ll end up getting bored with the middle part and then it has the explosive ending… literally, with all the action going from here to there which to be honest kinds of heavy in a not-so-good sense.
Michael Bay should be thankful for the exciting ending that tolerated all the heavy action and numerous unnecessary scenes. Some of the humor felt like pushed to the limits of corny-ish, but still, there was the humor that we all loved in a Michael Bay film especially Transformers.
As to be said, the action sequences were too huge and heavy that it did felt like too much and there could’ve been some scenes where they could just cut it out from the final movie.
Although the film was only two hours and thirty; it did feel like three hours or more, and unfortunately, it’s similar with the other films: long and tiring.
A quick comparison between a Michael Bay film and a James Cameron film. I don’t know if you’ve noticed that when you watch Titanic or Avatar, it doesn’t feel three hours long, on the other hand, Michael Bay’s Transformer Series felt like it’s three which is bizarre.
I can conclude that long-takes (which Cameron does) make the movie shorter, and as you can see in Transformers, in just one minute or less, it changes from one scene to the other and there are plenty of settings included which feels like the movie drags too long that it has so many things in it.
I did not appreciate the fact that it was just another Michael Bay film and it did not step up to another level of storytelling. Although CGI-wise, it’s a WOW (except for the shooting star in one scene which was really, really ugly).
But I cannot delete the fact that there are some parts that kept me in excitement and gave the chills because of some really cool sequences, but only if the film crew could step it up a notch a bit.
If I reward this with a top 4 from all the Transformers movies, I think this is next to the first film. This is not the best, it’s not the worst, it’s also not OKAY.
Transformers: Age of Extinction is an American film directed by Michael Bay and a fourth film of the Transformers series which stars Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Kelsey Grammer, Stanley Tucci, and Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime.
