
That’s fine, we all like Wahlberg, and he’s a great actor in the right film. Meanwhile, near-destitute Texan inventor Cade Yeager (Wahlberg) buys a broken-down truck for $150 and, well, anyone who’s seen any of the previous three movies or watched the TV show as a kid will know where this is heading.įirstly, believing Wahlberg is a near-destitute Texan inventor is one of the toughest tasks inflicted by a casting director on an audience since John Travolta played a woman in Hairspray or Denise Richards played a nuclear physicist in The World Is Not Enough. In the eyes of the CIA, all Transformers are alien terrorists, and in the eyes of KSI, Transformers are the key to the future of weaponry.īut Grammer and his stooges are having trouble finding the last few Transformers, particularly their leader Optimus Prime. Since then, the CIA (led by Grammer’s shifty black ops leader) has been hunting down Transformers – both good (Autobots) and bad (Decepticons) – and turning them over to tech company KSI (led by Tucci’s Steve Jobs-like Joshua Joyce). Having dispensed with Shia LaBeouf and whoever the Megan Fox replacement was in Dark Of The Moon, Bay has taken a vaguely different tack in part four, which is set four years after the “Battle Of Chicago” that climaxed the previous film. Now the race to the title of Worst Transformers Movie has a new contender to rival Revenge Of The Fallen (#2) and the almost-as-bad Dark Of The Moon (#3): ladies and gentlemen, presenting Age Of Extinction. It’s definitely not the first one, which was bafflingly awesome, but as the series continues the first one looks more and more like a fluke and that rarest of beasts – a truly good Michael Bay film. IT’S becoming increasingly difficult to figure out which Transformers movie sucks the most.
