First big bummer of the summer is Transformers: Age of Extinction. I was hugely disappointed, and I think you will be too. Honestly, the movie franchise has been going down hill since Sam Witwicky's mother ate a pot-laced brownie in the sequel. I didn't like that one, and although the third installment was slightly better, this one just didn't do it for me either. I really think that Michael Bay, the director, needs to cut his loses before the Transformers' legacy is ruined.
Huge problem number one: This movie is too long. It's almost three hours long!!!! It just keeps going and going and going. The fourth movie in the series starts off promising, but things quickly take a turn for the worst on the screen and with your patience level. There were many opportunities for the movie to end, but it didn't. At the two and a half hour mark, I was so done, but then yet another action scene began. I will say this, during the three hours, you will get tons of actions. The Autobots have a numerous amount of enemies this time, so the action never really lags, but it does get a bit monotonous.
Huge problem number two: Storyline. Storyline. Storyline. While the story sorta makes sense, it just doesn't flow very well. Set mainly in Paris, TX (where everyone who really lives there have thick accents and yet no one in the movie did, for once) and Hong Kong, the Autobots are now fugitives while a corporate CEO has created his own transformers using parts from Megatron in an effort to be the leading supplier of these new human controlled transformers. Meanwhile, prehistoric Transformers are trying collect Optimus Prime and take him back to their creator while helping the government who is in cahoots with this CEO to create these new transformers. There's so much more, but if I tell you anything else, I'll give too much away. And, if your head hurts trying to figure all of that out, just know you have three hours to sit there and do it.
Huge problem number three: The dialogue. There's no more Shia Lebouf, but I don't think he would have made it better. Funnier, but not better. FYI, it has many funny moments, so he wasn't even needed for that. Mark Wahlberg is a quirky engineer who finds Optimus Prime, and spends the entire movie trying to protect his daughter while helping giant robots because they really need some tiny little human's help. Stanley Tucci, John Goodman, and Kelsey Grammer are the other big stars in the movie, but unfortunately their experience can't help the horrible script. The dialogue is terrible. They were just saying things, mostly stupid things, just to be saying something. "I'm not here to help you save your daughter; you're here to help me save my girlfriend," is by far my favorite. I mean, they all say pointless things like that. But, when you're trying to fill three hours with a weak storyline, I guess that's what you have to write.
I really wanted to like this movie. I kept hoping it would get better, but sadly it didn't which sucks because I was really excited to watch it with my new movie buddy, E. Weezy (shout out to my Twin for allowing to borrow her boo). The first Transformers movie was the best one. They are honestly and truly going to make this franchise extinct if they don't pull it together in the next feature. Oh yes, they'll definitely be a fifth movie. yeah...
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