Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
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Critic Consensus: With the fourth installment in Michael Bay's blockbuster Transformers franchise, nothing is in disguise: Fans of loud, effects-driven action will find satisfaction, and all others need not apply.
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Cast
as Cade Yeager
as Shane Dyson
as Tessa Yeager
as Joshua Joyce
as Harold Attinger
as Darcy Tirrel
as James Savoy
as Drift
as Optimus Prime
as Hound
as Galvatron
as Su Yueming
as Crosshairs
as Lockdown
as Ratchet
as Lucas Flannery
as Brains
as Joshua's Assistant
as Convertible Passenger
as Su Yueming
as Gill Wembley
as CIA Director
as CIA Analyst
as CIA Analyst
as Elevator Boxer
as Theater Landlord
as Landlord's Grandson
as Realtor
as Realtor Client
as Arctic Site Foreperson
as Arctic Site Guard
as Air Force Operator
as Air Force Technician
as Wembley's Associate
as KSI Executive
as KSI Security Chief
as KSI Guard
as KSI Spokesmodel
as KSI Scientist
as KSI Scientist
as KSI Robot Controller
as KSI Robot Controller
as KSI Factory Executive
as KSI Factory Executive
as KSI Greeter
as KSI Worker
as Joshua's Assistant
as Attinger's Driver
as Dorky Driver
as Robot Thief
as Cemetery Wind Team
as Cemetery Wind Team
as Hong Kong Police Chief
as Hong Kong Man In Suit
as Motorcycle Owner
as Woman In Elevator
as Hong Kong Police Officer
as Hong Kong Police Officer
as Hong Kong Police Officer
as Pangu Hotel Greeter
as Chinese Minister Of Defense
as Assistant To Minister Of Defense
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Critic Reviews for Transformers: Age of Extinction
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Since the film is a chilling two hours and 45 minutes long, that means one's mind quickly wanders, dancing across this film's many flaws, little and big.
The few authentic inspirations to be found in the movie's hundred and sixty-five roiling minutes involve gigantic science-fiction contrivances.
It barely matters whether this movie is good or bad. Bay is now the sort of filmmaker -- the only one, perhaps -- whose moviemaking goes beyond such binary banality.
In the end, though, this is still a movie about giant robots fighting each other, which is to say it's nearly impossible to take seriously on a narrative level.
Inflated, interminable and incoherent ...
You're either awestruck, dumbstruck or just plain struck in the face.
Audience Reviews for Transformers: Age of Extinction
Infuriatingly silly and pointless, this is the most spectacular and stupid entry in the franchise. No plot to speak of and unbelievably flat characters and dialog make this hard to sit through, even during some of the action sequences. It doesn't help that the film is 30 minutes too long. When even huge action sequences feel repetitive and drag on forever your movie is in trouble. Most attempts in humor, especially on the Bots's side, are just poor. Only Stanley Tucci works here once his character gets interesting. He is the sole ray of light in this convoluted, stupid mess. One of the worst blockbusters of all times.
Super Reviewer
Four movies in, at this point you can either fall back on the old criticisms of Michael Bay as a filmmaker or simply let down your guard and look for any simple pleasures offered by the Transformers franchise, a series mostly known for chaotic plotting and action. Age of Extinction is probably the best Transformers film since the first one (take that for what you will) but it still has all the hallmarks of the obtuse and convoluted plotting, absurd and obnoxious characters, juvenile humor, intense product placement, and often incoherent action. Gone are the characters from the first three films and in their stead is Mark Wahlberg (upgrade) as a Texan inventor named, get this, Cade Yeager. He and his teen daughter come into contact with Optimus Prime and are on the run from multiple forces. Apparently a bounty hunter is looking to target Prime. The U.S. has a black ops team tracking down Transformers in hiding. And Stanley Tucci plays a business tycoon who wants to make his own Transformers via their magic substance "Transformium." Reading all of that, you realize the pieces still don't really make sense, and that's before the robot dinosaurs come into play. And yet Bay and his team have fine-tuned the entertaining aspects of the franchise and better consolidated them in the fourth film. A badass alien bounty hunter/collector is a great addition, adding the government as an adversary, Titus Welliver (TV's Lost) as a cocksure special agent, Tucci as a corporate blowhard, and robot dinosaurs, it all sort of works on its own terms. Again, if you try and logically connect the pieces, it won't happen. By this point, if you're not a fan of the series, there's no real reason to continue watching, but if you've found any semblance of enjoyment then there should be enough to keep your attention with the fourth film. Nate's Grade: C+
Super Reviewer
This started out way better than I thought, but then fell off the rails at the end. Did it end? I wasn't sure because it felt like it went on forever.
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Transformers: Age of Extinction Quotes
| Lockdown: | I feel sorry for you, Prime. Your legion, these humains. The trouble be [with] loyalty to a cause...is that the cause will always betray you! |
| Lockdown: | I feel sorry for you, Prime. Your legion, these humans. The trouble be with loyalty to a cause...is that the cause will always betray you! |
| Optimus Prime: | [Groaning] Who sent you here? |
| Optimus Prime: | Who sent you here? |
| Lockdown: | Where do you think you came from? [smirks] You think you where born? No...You were built! And your Creators want you back! [Walking away] We all work for someone! |
| Lockdown: | Where do you think you came from? You think you where born? No...you were built! And your Creators want you back! We all work for someone! |
| Optimus Prime: | There are mysteries to the universe we were never meant to solve, but who we are and why we are here, are not among them, those answers we carry inside. |
| Joshua Joyce: | It's a big magnet! |
| Cade Yeager: | It's sucking up metal and dropping it! |
| Lockdown: | Hes mine now. |