Well what the hell did ya expect? Michael Bay has made three Transformers movies of varying degrees of quality (said degrees ranging from “watchable” to “abominations”), so when he announced he would do a fourth one, did any of us think that it would be that much better or that much worse than any of the other films? If we did, we were foolish. Because “Transformers: Age of Extinction” is just another Michael Bay Transformers movie, with the only thing really separating it from the rest is the length, which is to say, this movie is long as Hell. So depending on your opinion of the other three movies, this new installment is either more of that same chaotic (Bay-otic) action and mechanical Sturm und Drang that you’ve come to love, or it is visual and aural torture akin to cinematic waterboarding, as you just feel like you are drowning in relentless action and noise.

Then again, you could fall right in the middle of these two reactions, because even for the uninitiated (for we ARE initiated), there are some things that can be appreciated in this story of humans trying to take their planet back from the alien robot beings that hide among them, whether or not these alien robots were formerly friends or foes of said humans. It is an us versus them scenario, with the only thing balancing out the aliens’ advanced technology being the humans sheer force of numbers, as well as their crafty and underhanded nature (as exemplified by shady government dealings with multiple parties).Continue Reading …