Review of Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) by Kyle C — 23 Jun 2016

It was predicted that Michael Bay's fourth round of treating the Transformers onto the silver screen was going to get underrated again by critics with their own opinions in the usual state of negativity; and that it seems to have a potential to be the best yet. Those predictions were confirmed to be right, and agreeable.

The potential consists a smooth into with a struggling father trying to save up for his daughter's college fund. It's like the new film is going with a different approach with a look of being a nice drama than right away going to the situation and explosions. Thus beginning the prediction on being the best by being compelling.

The man then thoroughly inspect an old semi-truck he'd brought along, but found out it's a transformer. Later after the discovery, these CIA branch of agents showed up, threatening the family and got attacked by the transformer for doing so. The story goes on from there as we all have seen the previews and knows what it's about. It was just to prove my point on that it was making a different impression than how the original trilogy approached in their trailers.

From viewing the movie, the father Cade (Mark Wahlberg) is a struggling inventor trying to make a buck to pay up his bills while saving up for his caring daughter Tessa's (Nicola Peltz from "The Last Airbender" as Katara) life for college and future. Meanwhile, the remaining Autobots are being hunted down by a hunter Lockdown, with those mentioned agents helping out.

By looking how the two plots has different tones then later intersects, it's like how it was in the first film with the Witwicky plot and the Transformers showing up for the Allspark. This is the usual format for launching a new trilogy. The first trilogy went from the Allspark to the last of the involved Decepticons. Now this new trilogy expands the franchise to explore further into their roots and origins.

"Transformers: Age of Extinction" is surprisingly the best one yet at a slight next to both the original and its predecessor when going in a fresh direction with better senses despite being unoriginal and flawed to both at least half of the scriptwriting and the structure when opening up plots before the intersection. Furthermore on how flawed it casually turned out to be is the start of questioning Bay's senses on overboard explosive destruction of mindlessly illogic and randomly unnecessary. The destructive moments seen in the film with an increased height probably was a way to challenge the visionary aspect of the film being larger than the characters.

Speaking of which, the qualities are pretty much the same around the heightened visual effects on the spirited action sequences, with a human approach to the driving stunts and action as they were running the show whilst sharing the action-packed spotlight with the Transformers. The film's bolstered by an appealing new cast that supports their portrayals of the mostly new characterization by their individual performances and going along with the lightening humor. As it's a new trilogy, the casting seems to be overall more enjoyable to the mechanical formula than the original trilogy casting, but it seems that it's going to be like the original film that consisted better casting than its two successors with some of the really good ones not returning.

"Transformers: Age of Extinction" continued its flaws and heightened its qualities when only improving in the freshness of the approach with a more favorable cast. The start of the franchise's new trilogy may have similarities to the first installment in formula and choices, it proved to be compelling to see what's next for the coming films that are ambitiously exploring the toy line on the filmic scale. (B+).