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Rating: 5.9/10 by 8125 users

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With help from Cade Yeager, Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet.

Directing:
  • Michael Bay
  • Alicia Accardo
  • Weicheng Jiang
  • Jeff Okabayashi
  • K.C. Hodenfield
  • Max Sturgeon
  • Michael Saunders
  • Lemon Liu Yi-Man
  • Franny Stafford
  • Sylvia Liu Jing-Yi
  • Sophia Shek
  • Ralph Chau
  • Joe Fong Si-Hang
  • Stanley Chan
Writing:
  • Ehren Kruger
Stars:
Release Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2014

Rating: 5.9/10 by 8125 users

Alternative Title:
Transformers 4 - AR
Transformers 4: La era de la extinción - ES
Transformers - Tuhon aikakausi - FI
Transformeriai 4 - LT
Transformers: Era da Extinção - PT
Transformersi - Doba izumiranja - RS
Трансформери 4 - UA
Transformers: Age of Extinction - SE
Transformers: Wiek zagłady - PL
트랜스포머 4: 사라진 시대 - KR
ทรานส์ฟอร์เมอร์ส 4: มหาวิบัติยุคสูญพันธุ์ - TH
Transformers - L'age de l'extinction - FR
Transformers - A Era da Extinção - BR
Transformers - Age of Extinction - US
شوندگان: عصر انقراض - IR
Transformers 4: Εποχή Αφανισμού - GR
Transformers 4 - A Era da Extinção - BR
Transformers 4 L'age de l'extinction - FR
Transformers 4 - Age of Extinction - US
Transformers 4: A kihalás kora - HU
Transformers - Ära des Untergangs - DE
變形金剛4:絕跡重生 - TW
變形金剛4:殲滅世紀 - HK
Transformers IV: Age of Extinction - US
变形金刚4:绝迹重生 - CN
Transformers 4: Ära des Untergangs - DE
Transformers: Ära des Untergangs - DE
Transformers: Zánik - CZ
Transformers 4 - Ära des Untergangs - DE
トランスフォーマー/ロストエイジ:2014 - JP
Robot Đại Chiến 4: Kỷ Nguyên Hủy Diệt - VN
变形金刚4:毁灭世纪 - HK
Transformers 4 - DE
Transformers 4: Kayıp Çağ - TR
Transformers 4:The Age Of Extinction - US
Transformers: İtmiş Dövr - AZ
變形金剛:殲滅世紀 - HK

Country:
United States of America
Language:
普通话
English
Runtime: 02 hour 45 minutes
Budget: $210,000,000
Revenue: $1,104,054,072

Plot Keyword: music video, sequel, alien, based on toy, giant robot, robot

Mark Wahlberg
Cade Yeager
Peter Cullen
Optimus Prime (voice)
Stanley Tucci
Joshua Joyce
Kelsey Grammer
Harold Attinger
Jack Reynor
Shane Dyson
Frank Welker
Galvatron (voice)
Sophia Myles
Darcy Tirrel
Li Bingbing
Su Yueming
John Goodman
Hound (voice)
Ken Watanabe
Drift (voice)
John DiMaggio
Crosshairs (voice)
Mark Ryan
Lockdown (voice)
T.J. Miller
Lucas Flannery
James Bachman
Gill Wembley
Thomas Lennon
Chief of Staff
Charles Parnell
CIA Director
Erika Fong
CIA Analyst
Han Geng
Convertible Passenger
Zou Shiming
Elevator Boxer
Richard Riehle
Theater Landlord
Patrick Bristow
Landlord's Grandson
Calvin Wimmer
Realtor Client
Glenn Keogh
Arctic Site Foreman
David Midthunder
Arctic Site Guard
Richard Gallion
Air Force Operator
Nick Horst
Air Force Technician
Kassem Gharaibeh
Wembley's Associate
Yanis Kalnins
KSI Security Chief
Jessica Gomes
KSI Spokesmodel
Andreas Beckett
KSI Scientist
Alexander Leeb
KSI Scientist
Jamison Haase
KSI Robot Controller
Drew Wicks
KSI Robot Controller
Gene Shieh
KSI Factory Executive
Woei Bee
KSI Factory Executive
Wang Ying
KSI Greeter
William Wang
KSI Worker
Melanie Specht
Joshua's Assistant
Abigail Klein
Joshua's Assistant
Greg Matthew Anderson
Joshua's Assistant
Austin Lin
Attinger's Driver
Victoria Summer
Joshua's Assistant
Kevin Covais
Dorky Driver
Mikal Vega
Cemetery Wind Team
Andrew Arrabito
Cemetery Wind Team
Tyrone Smith
Cemetery Wind Team
Kenny Sheard
Cemetery Wind Team
Kevin Kent
Cemetery Wind Team
Michael Wong
Hong Kong Police Chief
Winston Yeh Ying-Wen
Hong Kong Man in Suit
Ray Lui
Motorcycle Owner
Candice Zhao
Woman in Elevator
Li Jun Ting
Hong Kong Police Officer
Howard Y. Woo
Hong Kong Police Officer
Jingsheng Yu
Hong Kong Police Officer
Ben Wang
Hong Kong Police Officer
Eddie San Chan
Hong Kong Police Officer
Zhang Tianyu
Pangu Hotel Greeter
Wu Gang
Chinese Minister of Defense
Teresa Daley
Assistant to Minister of Defense
Robert Foxworth
Ratchet (voice)
Reno Wilson
Brains (voice)
Michael Bay
Truck Passenger (uncredited)

Grant English

Is there any excuse available that will justify spending 2 hours, 45 minutes to watch this film? Or why I am gifting it three stars? It was a free rental at Redox. I normally enjoy Mark Wahlberg movies. I love Bumblebee. Do any of these hold water? I know one thing that doesn’t hold a lot of water – the story. Does it really matter at this point in the franchise? There are good guy Transformers called Autobots and bad guy Transformers called Decepticons and standing between them are stupid humans that betray their species for profit – normally it’s the U.S. Government. BUT wait – there is one hero that will change all of this and talk Optimus Prime (Autobot Boss Daddy) into fighting one last battle (for the fourth or fifth time – I’ve lost count at this point) while some hot-looking woman runs around explosions in short-shorts. You now know all you need to know about the entire _Transformer_ franchise. For this incarnation we trade out Shia LeBeouf for Mark Wahlberg and Courtney Fox for Nicola Pelz. And now for the twist…wait for it… Mark Wahlberg plays Nicola Pelz’s FATHER. That’s right – the FATHER. Yeah, it totally doesn’t work. At all. There’s a point in the movie about 90 minutes in where it looks like all the loose ends are going to get tied up and I thought: You know, that wasn’t so bad. Good action flick, a bit hoaky at points but watchable. And then the movie keeps going. And going. For another 90 minutes. And you basically watch the movie again except instead of it being in Texas and Chicago, it’s in China and Hong Kong. It’s too long, too many explosions, too many American flags and Texas flags in the background. This movie desperately needs an editor or it needs to be euthanized. Probably the latter. John Goodman and Ken Watanabe lend their voices serve as decent comic relief but there’s not a lot that can save this film. Bumblebee deserved better.

CinemaSerf

I guess even Michael Bay must have realised that by the fourth outing, this franchise needed refreshing. To that end, the previously long-suffering cast have been allowed to hang up their screwdrivers and a new set of characters have been drafted in. They are led by "Cade" (an enthusiastic Mark Wahlberg). Now he just happens to buy an old truck and it just happens to turn out to be the long lost "Optimus Prime". Of course, there are still agencies hunting for the robots and soon he and daughter "Tessa" (Nicola Peltz Beckham) are on the run from a militia controlled by the manipulative industrialist "Joyce" (Stanley Tucci). Quite why it needs to take 2¾ hours to get to the standard denouement is anyone's guess. Despite the inclusion of some Tyrannosaur-bots, the film has the same relentless predictability as the "Autobots" and "Decepticons" (if you can spot the difference) go through the same repetitively staged combat scenes before an ending that relies unduly on human intervention (oh yes, and lots of sentimentality too) before we essentially start back at square one with the usual "Optimus" monologue concluding the proceedings. This has the added benefit of a truly terrible performance from the always over-rated Kelsey Grammer who had a few, entirely futile, goes at being a cinema baddie and unlike the other films which had a semblance of internationalism to them, this is now an entirely American affair that just bored me. Surely no more...?


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