![]() (Guys, what if the catastrophic event that killed the dinosaurs was aliens?!) Anyway, that immediately stops mattering until the last third of the film because now we're zapped to "Texas, USA" where Cade Yaeger (Wahlberg stepping in for a blessedly absent Shia LaBeouf) has discovered a tractor-trailer in an abandoned theater and brought it home to strip it for parts. We're told, though some unwieldy exposition, that this space-metal- Sue discovery is a big deal that changes the course of history. But in Age of Extinction, the movie's multitude of inexplicable plots go nowhere and, in addition being largely incoherent, put the movie at a runtime-165 minutes-that means it stays way past its welcome.Īge, which opens today, starts somewhere in the Arctic, where a metallic dinosaur skeleton has been located. Plus it's a Michael Bay movie he's sticking to his flashy, well-shot guns, so expecting Martin Scorsese is ridiculous. Like its predecessors, it's a movie about alien robots that turn into automobiles and get into massive fights. Here's the thing: No one is going into the latest Transformers installment without the ability to suspend disbelief. ![]() Probably.Īctually, I have no idea what Transformers: Age of Extinction was supposed to be about-I don't think it did either-but by the end Optimus Prime had ridden a fire-breathing Dinobot like he was President Obama on a unicorn in an internet meme, so I guess it wasn't all bad. It's definitely about people being filmed from the ground up getting out of cars in slow motion, and Mark Wahlberg in a really tight T-shirt. No, wait, it's about American exceptionalism and intergalactic jingoism. Transformers: Age of Extinction-the fourth installment in Michael Bay's quest to turn Hasbro toys into VFX piggy banks-is about what happens when we as a people fear the "other" so much we're willing to turn on each other to extract it from our lives.
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