Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

When humanity allies with a bounty hunter in pursuit of Optimus Prime, the Autobots turn to a mechanic and his family for help.

Director:

Michael Bay

Writer:

Ehren Kruger

Stars:

Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor

5 wins & 23 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mark Wahlberg	...	Cade Yeager
Stanley Tucci	...	Joshua Joyce
Kelsey Grammer	...	Harold Attinger
Nicola Peltz	...	Tessa Yeager
Jack Reynor	...	Shane Dyson
Titus Welliver	...	James Savoy
Sophia Myles	...	Darcy Tirrel
Bingbing Li	...	Su Yueming
T.J. Miller	...	Lucas Flannery
James Bachman	...	Gill Wembley
Thomas Lennon	...	Chief of Staff
Charles Parnell	...	CIA Director
Erika Fong	...	CIA Analyst
Michael Collins	...	CIA Analyst
Geng Han	...	Convertible Passenger

Storyline

After the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons that leveled Chicago, humanity thinks that all alien robots are a threat. So Harold Attinger, a CIA agent, establishes a unit whose sole purpose is to hunt down all of them. But it turns out that they are aided by another alien robot who is searching for Optimus Prime. Cade Yeager, a "robotics expert", buys an old truck and upon examining it, he thinks it's a Transformer. When he powers it up, he discovers it's Optimus Prime. Later, men from the unit show up looking for Optimus. He helps Yeager and his daughter Tessa escape but are pursued by the hunter. They escape and Yeager learns from technology he took from the men that a technology magnate and defense contractor named Joshua Joyce is part of what's going on, so they go to find out what's going on.

---

Plot Keywords:

blockbuster | truck | texas | semi truck and trailer | based on cartoon | 

---

Taglines:

The rules have changed

---

Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

---

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, language and brief innuendo

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA China Hong Kong

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 June 2014 (USA)

Also Known As:

Transformers 4

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$210,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$100,038,390, 29 June 2014, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$245,439,076, 28 February 2015

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$1,104,039,076

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Hasbro, Di Bonaventura Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

165 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Digital Dolby Surround 7.1 Dolby Atmos Auro 11.1 12-Track Digital Sound SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is only the second time in all the live-action movies that Optimus transforms into a vehicle mode on-screen. The first was when he engaged Demolishor in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).

---

Goofs

(at around 1h 50 mins) From the start of the movie, Tessa is wearing jeans up to the train/wagon scene. Just when the police cars appear, she enters the spaceship wearing camo-pants and a belt up to the end of the movie.

---

Quotes

[first lines]
Arctic Site Foreman: Oh, shit. Darcy, you really shouldn't have come.
Darcy Tirrel: Show me.

---

Crazy Credits

This is the first Transformers that begins without an opening monologue by Optimus Prime.

---

Connections

References The Big Lebowski (1998)

---

Soundtracks

Moonlight Reflected on the Er-Quan Spring
Written and Performed by Lei Qiang
From the Album 'Chinese Traditional Erhu Music Vol. 1'
Courtesy of Oliver Sudden Productions Inc.

User Reviews

Save your money .. Don't feed the Bay

Worst of the transformers movies. Was okay until about a 3rd of the way through. Mark Wahlberg was better than Shia, but the movie was bloated with too many similar scenes.

Enough chase scenes and slow motion explosions for the whole of 2014. It would be nice to see some sort of characters developed for the transformers. Because they are created as one dimensional punchlines there is no possibility to have any interesting story that involves the transformers interacting with each other.

Wait for the DVD if you must see it, but you wont be missing much if you avoid it all together.