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| My favorite character, Crosshairs |
"Crosshairs: Ugh, you just want to die for the guy. That's leadership. Or brainwashing, or something.
Drift: No, that is Optimus Prime."
Transformers: Age of Extinction is an American action movie released on June 27th in USA. It was directed by Michael Bay and starred Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager, an inventor whose creations are the only things keeping his farm under his possession. He lives in the aftermath of the Transformers vs. Decepticon war events in Chicago which has made the CIA, namely Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammar) so paranoid that they have acquired the help of bounty hunter Lockdown (voiced by Mark Ryan) to take down all robots on planet earth. Yeager, who lives with his daughter Tessa (Nicole Peltz), borrows money from his employee Lucas Flannery (T.J. Miller) to buy an old broke down truck in hopes of selling it's working parts as spare parts to afford his daughter's college. But when he works on the truck for a while, he finds huge bullets and missiles in it. After powering it up he realizes that it's a transformer. His go to move is to report him and claim a $25,000 bounty which is put on any reported robots but somehow he doesn't want to give him away and believes that the transformers fought for earth not against it. Meanwhile Cade's daughter, Tessa is in an online relationship with a guy named Shane Dyson (Jack Reynor) which would be ok but the fact that she's only 16 and he's 21 makes her keep it a secret. With all that aside Lucas who technically paid for the truck tells the government about the robot in hopes of claiming the bounty. CIA cars show up but they are more eager to get the Transformer who is now is now identified as Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen). A battle scene breaks out between Optimus and the army CIA has brought lead by James Savoy (Titus Welliver). This is when Cade finally meets Shane when he drives his racing car to the farm to save his damsel in distress. As there is no time to argue they make haste and escape the scene with Optimus Prime. Later they meet a team of surviving Autobots, Bumblebee, Crosshairs (voiced by John DiMaggio), Drift (voiced by Ken Watanabe) and Hound (voiced by John Goodman).
Honestly to me this was the best Transformers film out there. I love the replacement of Sheila Lebeouf with Mark Wahlberg characterwise as Cade Yeager makes way more sense than Sam Whitwicky since I always disliked the mind connection he had with the Autobots. Also Mark Wahlberg was more comedic and more action at the same time. Stanley Tucci as Joshua Joyce gives a great comedic performance and the voice cast is pure gold. John DiMaggio in particuler. I actually went to the movie the day after the premiere and it was great in my opinion, full of action but like all the movies in this franchise had a downfall with some of its characters.
What ruins this movie in my eyes is the relationship between Tessa and Shane which is just unbearable. Not that I dislike Peltz or Reynor but their characters just sucked. The Romeo and Juliet law was awful, promoting minor and adult relationships was also a terrible message and basically every scene involving Tessa and Shane and every scene with Shane (I name the characters again because the actors did good their characters were horrible) brought the movie a rung down on the ladder to success. But Mark Wahlberg and the Transformers make up for that and bring a good action movie to the theaters. I am most likely going to Transformers 5 in 2016. And for reference to know why Shane Dyson sucked so bad here's a quote he says to Cade Yeager after his daughter is taken into Lockdown's spaceship.
"We're not going in there to save your daughter. We're going in there to save my girlfriend."
Just don't get two hot people on set and think that's great. Good characters are what matters.
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