While the Transformers movies have always included some level of advertisement on-screen, the stuff in Age of Extinction is painfully apparent and obnoxious. There’s also an over-abundance of product placement in the movie, both for American and Chinese audiences. The story has way too many characters and sub-plots, and while Mark Whalberg delivers a commendable performance, most of the acting is mediocre. This is mostly due to the 2 hour and 45-minute runtime, which makes the experience far too long and bloated. For a movie that constantly bombards its viewers with explosive action, it can feel incredibly dull and repetitive at times. Unfortunately, Age of Extinction is also ripe with issues. There’s also a greater variety of action scenes than before, including a smattering of car chases, fight scenes, and robot-vs-robot carnage. If anything, Age of Extinction is great at delivering wickedly cool visuals and fun action sequences. There are weaving conflicts between all allegiance of robot and human, as Cade Yeager and his daughter Tessa (Nicola Peltz) are quickly pulled into emerging battles. The movie also calls back to other popular Transformers brand lore with the inclusion of the prehistoric Dinobots. The movie plays around with the idea of morally-gray Transformers, namely Lockdown (voiced by Mark Ryan), a tactical robot that can transform into a massive sniper rifle. Just like the other Transformers films, Age of Extinction assaults audiences with monumental amounts of action and metal-grinding chaos. Unbeknownst to him, that truck is actually the greatest Transformer of them all, Optimus Prime.
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