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![]() Regarding the Transformers themselves, Prime is gifted perhaps the film’s most important emotional arc, while many of his cohorts are left on the sidelines. Miller also gives a memorable turn as Cade’s business partner-cum-sidekick whose comedic cowardice sets the action in motion when he attempts to collect the reward on Optimus Prime. Stanley Tucci is clearly having a blast as Joshua, whose research into “Transformium” (the creakiest elemental name since Avatar’s “unobtanium”) unleashes a new army of artificially constructed Transformers on society. Kelsey Grammer is suitably gruff and sinister as the political puppet master working all the angles “to keep America safe”. ![]() Thankfully, Bay and Kruger have also excised much of the racial stereotyping and goofy humour that proliferated the earlier films, but characterisation remains lightweight.īay has always displayed a flair for creative casting, attracting impressive rosters of respected character actors to ham it up alongside his more straight-faced heroes. This time out Nicola Peltz’s 17-year-old Tessa is technically a minor, so while there’s plenty of coverage of her impossibly short shorts, the film in general leaves its objectification to gleaming metal and fiery explosions. It is an interesting shift of gear for Bay, whose camera paid as much attention to his female leads Megan Fox and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as to the hardware and pyrotechnics that perpetually cluttered his frame. This triple threat shatters Cade’s picturesque All-American world and forces him to create a real escape from his problems, one that might also bring him fame and success - if he manages to save the planet. Yaeger’s discovery of a derelict Optimus Prime comes moments before his home is invaded by gun-toting military types and the discovery Tessa is dating Shane, a local rally car driver. As the improbably-monickered Cade Yaeger, Mark Wahlberg cuts a far more relatable action hero, an overly-protective single father juggling money problems, aspirations of becoming a great inventor, and a beautiful, precocious daughter he’s terrified will make the same mistakes he did. Screenwriter Ehren Kruger puts a different spin on the central human relationship, replacing Shia LaBeouf’s adolescent dating antics with a more wholesome father-daughter dynamic. With unscrupulous scientist Joshua Joyce (Stanley Tucci) close to launching his own line of engineered Transformers, using materials farmed from wasted Decepticons, Cade, Tessa and her no-longer secret boyfriend Shane (Jack Reynor) must convince the surviving Autobots that the human race is still worth saving.Īfter a hugely successful trilogy of films based on Hasbro’s globally-loved toy range, Michael Bay returns once again to the Transformers series, this time boasting a whole new line-up of humans and a darker, more serious tone. When Cade (Mark Wahlberg) and Tessa Yeager (Nicola Peltz), a father-daughter team of Texas scrap dealers, stumble upon a deactivated Optimus Prime, they are soon drawn into this brutal clean-up operation, as well as into the path of a rogue robot bounty hunter known as Lockdown. Three years after the Decepticons laid waste to Chicago, shady politician Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer) has commissioned special ops units to scour the country for outlawed Transformers. Otherwise, it’s business as usual for the Autobots and Decepticons, which based on past performance means a huge box office performance everywhere.īay overcompensates for his flimsy narrative and characterisation with a bombastic and visually aggressive aesthetic. Bay’s trademark visual fireworks are as impressive as ever, while an all-new cast promises a new direction for what may become a second trilogy. The fourth instalment of Michael Bay’s big screen robot romp offers few surprises but an abundance of the series’ familiar tropes in another marathon-length, narratively vapid action spectacular.
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