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Alright so I saw Transformers: Age of Extinction today and am ready to give my thoughts. Firstly to acknowledge the jumping the gun with the first picture, do I take it back… not really. Although I actually am rather pleased how Galvatron played out in the movie, I still think there was a better way to do it than this. So below is my review, first none spoiler.

   So the movie is pretty similar to the others in terms of story line, characters, etc. We really don’t get a lot of characterization for anybody outside of Optimus, Bumblebee, Mark Walberg, his daughter, and her boy friend. Autobots like Hound get a little bit more development than the Autobots would normally receive but not by much. Mark Wahlberg was a much better human helper and I found myself carring much more for him him and his daughter than I did for Sam and his girl friend. Storyline wise, it makes no since, just like before. Basically a human organization, a branch of the CIA has deemed all Tarnsformers a threat and is actively hunting the Autobots in order to both rid the earth of the alien threat and also to gain access to… Transformium… which I held back laughing at, especially since such a silly name was unnecessary, the substance Transformers were made of was already named, Cybertronium, which sounds way better. Anyway they want Trasformium so they can build there own robots, such as Galvatron. In the movie our main villain is Lockdown and some human executives, Galvatron himself also serves a villain role but less so. Also for those wondering about Grimlock, it was disappointing. They, much like Devatsator, just kind of show up and really don’t get much explanation. So that’s the gist of the plot, it was alright but made little since to me. Action wise, I liked it, it was entertaining but it had a similar issue, with the robots were hard to tell who was who but I felt they did a better job here than in other movies. The charactrs were decent at best, lockdown was a surprisingly engaging villain for these movies but no one really stood out. The Autobots all came across as obnoxious and I didn’t care for most of them. The movie was over all my favorite of the four, but it boiled down to a popcorn movie and really provides nothing else… of course if you do see it for that reason I think you‘ll get bored after a while… they movie is like 2 ½ hours long and I imagine the explosions and such will get boring after a while.

   Spoilers
   Ok so first I want to get this joke out of the way, the movie opens with Dinosaurs and we see a Psttiaccosaurus actively hunting and eating other dinosaurs, so I have been dieing to say this, “We’re off to a great start when the first thing we see is a herbivore dinosaur killing and eating other dinosaurs.” Anyway so we have Mark Wahlberg and his daughter and his friend who are our human characters and are much better than Sam and Michaela ever were. With that said they still prove to be pretty uninteresting. I find that they were more interesting but proved to be a rather generic character, protective dad and his 16 or whatever year old daughter who wants her independence, seen it a million times. So the basic plot goes that the CIA is hunting Transformers and they killed almost all of the characters from the last three movies, including Ratchet who we see die and also have an alliance with Lockdown in exchange for an artifact called the Seed. Mark Wahlberg finds and befriends Optimus Prime and the Autobots reunite after the agency finds them. Optimus continues to be a rather rough and cruel individual in this movie, swearing to kill humans and anyone that gets in there way. He comes across as overly angry and violent, which is explained that he no longer trusts humans but I still find it hard to believe that Optimus would act like that, given his nature. As for villains, our main villain is Lockdown and the CIA exectuvies. They are capturing and killing transformers to obstract the material they’re made out of… which is usually called Cybertronium, but in this film they call it Transformium… which just sounds dumb. Also all the sudden the “Transformium’ has the power to break apart into molecular form and reassemble into other things… a power it has never had before. On top of what Transformers are made of, one thing kept bothering me, that Energon is green in this movie. Every time a Transformer is hurt, they bleed green, looking like the acid blood from Alien, even though in every other movie (as well as in most versions of the Transformers franchise) Energon is blue and they don‘t give a reason for this change. For those wondering how the characters are I’ll break it down.
   Bumblebee- Uh, incompetent. He came across as a whiny school boy that I just didn’t like much. For some damn reason he still cant speak… didn’t they fix that like four movies ago? I hate that, it was funny at first but its gotten really old and I wish it would just stop.
   Optimus- very cold blooded. He was actively depicted shooting at and killing humans as well as Transformers with no regard for his motto whatsoever. He wasn’t diplomatic in the slightest and came across needlessly rash. I do sympathize with him in that he feels betrayed, and was, and also lost lots of friends but I feel Optimus’ nature wouldn’t allow him to act this way and it hard to root for him when he seemed more violent the Megatron was.
   Grimlock-…didn’t show up… ok he did but it felt like he wasn’t supposed to be in this movie, like Bay was forced to add the Dinobots or something. Grimlock and the Dinobots just kind of showed up at the end of the film and had nothing to do with the movie up till the last say 15 minutes. Basically they were imprisoned on Lockdown’s ship and Optimus goes and gets them. So I’m supposed to just except that these guys just so happen to be there. Apparently, since the movie doesn’t explain where they came from, who they are, or how Optimus knew they’d help him. I found the whole thing to be underwhelming and also Grimlock never speaks, he is being ridden almost the entire time and actually doesn’t die to my shock but doesn’t get the fan favorite character treatment he really deserves. I liked the T.rex mode but I just wish we could’ve actually gotten to know Grimlock a little. Over all, very disappointing, he was cool when he was around, but it wasn’t nearly long enough to satisfy me.
   Galvatron-Ok I figure you all want me to either rip into this or take back what I said earlier… well I’m actually pleased with Galvatron in this movie. Although I hate the idea of him being a human pawn, the movie redeemed itself by essentially making it Megatron was using them as pawns to get a new body and was the real manipulator in the end. That I liked, Megatron ahs always been like that, he refuses to be controlled by anyone and will do anything to get on top. With that said, Galvatron didn’t get to do much. He spent mostof the movie a mute husk just standing around waiting for orders. He also didn’t really get to do anything in the film as a whole, as Galavtron was absent from the final fight almost entirely and never fought Optimus, Grimlock, or anyone in the films climax. He did survive as a result though, so hopefully he’ll get to do more in the next film.
   Lockdown- I was surprised how much I liked Lockdown in this movie. Lockdown was pretty much how Shockwave should’ve been. Cold, calculative, hard to defeat, smart, etc. I was very interested in Lockdown in this movie and a part of me was preying I was wrong in my prediction he was going to die in the movie… unfortunately no. The one villain I liked and he’s dead now. Wonderful.

Over all I’d give it a 5, decent but nothing overly special. It is probably the best of the four. If you want a long popcorn movie, its good for that but don’t expect much else, you’ll leave disappointed.

Description
Alright so I saw Transformers: Age of Extinction today and am ready to give my thoughts. Firstly to acknowledge the jumping the gun with the first picture, do I take it back… not really. Although I actually am rather pleased how Galvatron played out in the movie, I still think there was a better way to do it than this. So below is my review, first none spoiler.

   So the movie is pretty similar to the others in terms of story line, characters, etc. We really don’t get a lot of characterization for anybody outside of Optimus, Bumblebee, Mark Walberg, his daughter, and her boy friend. Autobots like Hound get a little bit more development than the Autobots would normally receive but not by much. Mark Wahlberg was a much better human helper and I found myself carring much more for him him and his daughter than I did for Sam and his girl friend. Storyline wise, it makes no since, just like before. Basically a human organization, a branch of the CIA has deemed all Tarnsformers a threat and is actively hunting the Autobots in order to both rid the earth of the alien threat and also to gain access to… Transformium… which I held back laughing at, especially since such a silly name was unnecessary, the substance Transformers were made of was already named, Cybertronium, which sounds way better. Anyway they want Trasformium so they can build there own robots, such as Galvatron. In the movie our main villain is Lockdown and some human executives, Galvatron himself also serves a villain role but less so. Also for those wondering about Grimlock, it was disappointing. They, much like Devatsator, just kind of show up and really don’t get much explanation. So that’s the gist of the plot, it was alright but made little since to me. Action wise, I liked it, it was entertaining but it had a similar issue, with the robots were hard to tell who was who but I felt they did a better job here than in other movies. The charactrs were decent at best, lockdown was a surprisingly engaging villain for these movies but no one really stood out. The Autobots all came across as obnoxious and I didn’t care for most of them. The movie was over all my favorite of the four, but it boiled down to a popcorn movie and really provides nothing else… of course if you do see it for that reason I think you‘ll get bored after a while… they movie is like 2 ½ hours long and I imagine the explosions and such will get boring after a while.

   Spoilers
   Ok so first I want to get this joke out of the way, the movie opens with Dinosaurs and we see a Psttiaccosaurus actively hunting and eating other dinosaurs, so I have been dieing to say this, “We’re off to a great start when the first thing we see is a herbivore dinosaur killing and eating other dinosaurs.” Anyway so we have Mark Wahlberg and his daughter and his friend who are our human characters and are much better than Sam and Michaela ever were. With that said they still prove to be pretty uninteresting. I find that they were more interesting but proved to be a rather generic character, protective dad and his 16 or whatever year old daughter who wants her independence, seen it a million times. So the basic plot goes that the CIA is hunting Transformers and they killed almost all of the characters from the last three movies, including Ratchet who we see die and also have an alliance with Lockdown in exchange for an artifact called the Seed. Mark Wahlberg finds and befriends Optimus Prime and the Autobots reunite after the agency finds them. Optimus continues to be a rather rough and cruel individual in this movie, swearing to kill humans and anyone that gets in there way. He comes across as overly angry and violent, which is explained that he no longer trusts humans but I still find it hard to believe that Optimus would act like that, given his nature. As for villains, our main villain is Lockdown and the CIA exectuvies. They are capturing and killing transformers to obstract the material they’re made out of… which is usually called Cybertronium, but in this film they call it Transformium… which just sounds dumb. Also all the sudden the “Transformium’ has the power to break apart into molecular form and reassemble into other things… a power it has never had before. On top of what Transformers are made of, one thing kept bothering me, that Energon is green in this movie. Every time a Transformer is hurt, they bleed green, looking like the acid blood from Alien, even though in every other movie (as well as in most versions of the Transformers franchise) Energon is blue and they don‘t give a reason for this change. For those wondering how the characters are I’ll break it down.
   Bumblebee- Uh, incompetent. He came across as a whiny school boy that I just didn’t like much. For some damn reason he still cant speak… didn’t they fix that like four movies ago? I hate that, it was funny at first but its gotten really old and I wish it would just stop.
   Optimus- very cold blooded. He was actively depicted shooting at and killing humans as well as Transformers with no regard for his motto whatsoever. He wasn’t diplomatic in the slightest and came across needlessly rash. I do sympathize with him in that he feels betrayed, and was, and also lost lots of friends but I feel Optimus’ nature wouldn’t allow him to act this way and it hard to root for him when he seemed more violent the Megatron was.
   Grimlock-…didn’t show up… ok he did but it felt like he wasn’t supposed to be in this movie, like Bay was forced to add the Dinobots or something. Grimlock and the Dinobots just kind of showed up at the end of the film and had nothing to do with the movie up till the last say 15 minutes. Basically they were imprisoned on Lockdown’s ship and Optimus goes and gets them. So I’m supposed to just except that these guys just so happen to be there. Apparently, since the movie doesn’t explain where they came from, who they are, or how Optimus knew they’d help him. I found the whole thing to be underwhelming and also Grimlock never speaks, he is being ridden almost the entire time and actually doesn’t die to my shock but doesn’t get the fan favorite character treatment he really deserves. I liked the T.rex mode but I just wish we could’ve actually gotten to know Grimlock a little. Over all, very disappointing, he was cool when he was around, but it wasn’t nearly long enough to satisfy me.
   Galvatron-Ok I figure you all want me to either rip into this or take back what I said earlier… well I’m actually pleased with Galvatron in this movie. Although I hate the idea of him being a human pawn, the movie redeemed itself by essentially making it Megatron was using them as pawns to get a new body and was the real manipulator in the end. That I liked, Megatron ahs always been like that, he refuses to be controlled by anyone and will do anything to get on top. With that said, Galvatron didn’t get to do much. He spent mostof the movie a mute husk just standing around waiting for orders. He also didn’t really get to do anything in the film as a whole, as Galavtron was absent from the final fight almost entirely and never fought Optimus, Grimlock, or anyone in the films climax. He did survive as a result though, so hopefully he’ll get to do more in the next film.
   Lockdown- I was surprised how much I liked Lockdown in this movie. Lockdown was pretty much how Shockwave should’ve been. Cold, calculative, hard to defeat, smart, etc. I was very interested in Lockdown in this movie and a part of me was preying I was wrong in my prediction he was going to die in the movie… unfortunately no. The one villain I liked and he’s dead now. Wonderful.

Over all I’d give it a 5, decent but nothing overly special. It is probably the best of the four. If you want a long popcorn movie, its good for that but don’t expect much else, you’ll leave disappointed.