Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Michael Bay's Blockbuster Transformers franchise returns, often notorious for it's critical backlash, in what can overall perhaps be classed as an reboot, ditching Shia LeBouf for an action-heavy Mark Walberg in an attempt to formulate an adrenaline fueled, cash flowing international phenomenon.

Transformers: Age Of Extinction yet appears to lack exactly that; formulaic maneuvering, emerging inconceivably convoluted, abruptly shifting it's tone whenever feels it would like to, rather than where it needs to, simplistically showcasing that, in tonal composition, it's predassesors are fundamentally superior.

Snowballing rapidly, undeniably almost half an hour theoretically could have been cut without any significant loss in plotpoint development from an audience members perspective, to an extent that simply viewing beginning comparatively with conclusion, one would barely consider many of it's pointless plotpoints as a feasable guideline, proving that throughout Age Of Extinction's convoluted hodgepodge plot many scenes amount to no intellectual development for audience, let alone film itself.

Amongst all of this, it's infuriating pacing fluctuates unhesitated, abandoning key advertised points until latter parts of it's bloated runtime, lacking anticipation due to little to no buildup beforehand, instead closest to live-action Transformers action sequences featured followed inconsiderately by pointless clichéd comedic product placement.

Throughout it's impeccable continuation of Transformer trash closely following in footsteps of Revenge Of The Fallen, may it only be Bay's ensemble cast make Age Of Extinction merely enjoyable, yet that proves a little different than advertised, it's countless assembled extra's used perhaps more finely, comedic relief amongst solid action sequences.

Concerning Bay's adrenaline fueled considered aimed tone, it practically prepares for it's descend even before such underutilised actors, for example Stanley Tucci, grace it's convoluted weave of forgettable characters and uninspired plot points, explosions now expected for a Transformers film, however presented almost as if it's a one off spectacle, boring it's audience.

In comparison to Transformers' continuous line of story arcs presented through numerous television series, Age Of Extinction merely borrows traces of both it's charm and innovation, despite it's insistence through merchandising that it echoes it. 2007 introductory installment's slight gritty realism appears untouched yet all nostalgia has been disassembled, in replacement for product placement to attone it's gigantuan budget

Yet in itself this appears more perhaps opposite of what Transformers appear to have once been, timeless, resulting in an overlong formulaic popcorn blockbuster that will mindlessly entertain residents of now, but inevitability confuse those in future times.