
Hence, I'm obliged to point out that all this moviemaking expertise is put in the service of a sci-fi concept that is, for lack of a better word, infantile. Of course, like ALMOST every other movie reviewer, I'm not convinced that a two-hour-and-forty minute toy commercial elaborately disguising itself as a movie is something to celebrate. They sound like indifferent Journey knockoffs and aren’t up to what the rest of (Of which there are several.) It might even be one or two different songs, but whatever they are, Not even the score, really,īut rather this one whiny song that comes up every now and then at climactic In “Transformers: Age Of Extinction” is the music. In terms of the technical stuff, the only really crap thing The style (called “chaos cinema” by some) that renders a lot of what transpires Martial arts kicks and chops to parkour-style rooftop leaping is clearlyĮxecuted with conviction and precision, although it is often shot and edited in Have been legions of stunt people, ranging from Western-style punch-em-outs to Impress: the simulated physical action choreographed and enacted by what must Large-scale mayhem with relentless impact. Organic, mechanic, mutated imaginary creatures enacting breakneck action and wreaking Rendering in precisely-engineered 3D all manner of ingeniously designed Most sophisticated visual effects that the movie industry has to offer, Lovely seeing the good use to which Shia LaBoeuf has been putting his resultantįree time) is a spectacular visual and aural experience. Partial “reboot” as they call it, because although it’s part of a continuity itĭispenses with all the characters from the previous films (and hasn’t it been The fourth film in the “ Transformers” series, an at least
