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After a
financially (but definitely NOT critically) successful transformers
trilogy, you would have thought Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures would have
put a lid on it and left it alone… Oh no.
Enter Age of Extinction. The latest film in
the franchise, the one that is a semi-reboot of the original trilogy (as in,
new characters, settings and storylines, dropping Shia LaBeouf and others)
takes us on an unnecessarily long journey through time, in order for Hasbro to
just sell more toys and taint the Dinobots and Transformers name!
The film
itself does have an impressive array of special effects and fight sequences, a
classic Michael Bay-esque film (read: lots of explosions and lots of corny
jokes throughout), if you like that kind of thing and the Dinobots really showed why they are legendary warriors
(i.e. they really make the film in the short time they’re in it…) but other
than that, there are very few positive things to say about it.
The runtime
was almost excruciating and too long, where a lot of it could have been cut AND still make sense for the story's development. The overall acting was rather poor, although Mark Wahlberg and Stanley
Tucci’s performances are more on the positive side of things, but just not
enough. Some most of the writing throughout was also pretty poor and only
drags out the film even more.
In all
honesty, as much as I love Transformers (as I grew up with them) they should
have stopped making them after the first one. However, despite the obvious
negatives in this film, it is still better that Transformers 2 & 3. Age
of Extinction has a much better storyline than the previous two, but was just
poorly executed. The coming fifth and sixth installments already planned for it – it’s not like we
don’t have enough sequels already, huh Hollywood!? – gives me a huge sense of
trepidation for the franchise and clearly something needs to be addressed in
order to fix it. Whether that’s getting better writers, getting rid of Michael
Bay, most definitely cutting down the run-time or getting a new cast, I don’t care;
it just needs to be fixed.
That being
said, if you have money to spare and a good 3 hours to waste then I would recommend
Age of Extinction as it is still a
relatively enjoyable watch…
1.5/5 Stars
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