不可否认，该片导演迈克尔·贝在制作电影时爆炸效果总能抢了画面的风头，这从他过去所导演的电影《勇闯夺命岛》、《珍珠港》以及《雷霆战警》都能看出。这次接手的变形金刚系列电影，利用视觉效果和真人动态结合，加上明亮大胆的色彩搭配以及大量的爆炸场景和性感场面使他在这方面的才华得以充分体现。
这是过去七年中五部电影的成功典范，导演仅仅制作了一张图片，而且还不是变形金刚的。但是如果电影发行商出现任何收益递减的信号，那迈克尔就得把导演的位置让给别人，自己钓鱼去了。
距离上次变3《月黑之时》已过去5年,变形金刚们失去了美国政府的信任，并被指责正是由于它们的存在才造成了霸天虎在芝加哥进行毁灭性破坏事件。剩下的汽车人,在擎天柱（再次由皮特·库伦配音）率领下躲避中情局特工哈罗德率领的墓风小队的追捕，他操纵着墓风小队，专门捕杀所有无论好坏的汽车人。
擎天柱在德州被破落的机器人发明家凯德·伊格（马克·沃尔伯格饰演）和他的朋友发现买回，此时擎天柱伪装成一辆破旧卡车头。很快他的女儿（妮可拉·佩尔茨）及其男友也牵涉其中。商业大亨约书华·乔伊斯的科技公司KSI发掘出变形金刚的基因奥秘的秘密，并造出了他们自己的变形金刚，但是他们不知不觉中造出了新的霸天虎——惊破天。
观众对于变形金刚系列电影十分的喜爱，变心金刚系列迄今已经收获了27亿美元的全球票房，这还没算上相关产品的销售所得。最近几周，制片方已经开始计划要进行下一部的拍摄计划，时间为2016年，但迈克尔还没有正式签字。
第四部紧随上一部电影《月黑之时》，但这次还加入了恐龙因素，出现了恐龙变形金刚。这原本并不在剧本中，而是导演自己加入的元素。
不得不承认，《绝迹重生》真的是一部十分冗长的电影。电影时长165分钟，要想整场都用运动风格纸片来吸引观众眼球是根本不可能的事。而用3D模式看此片时，即使拥有最好的特效，最壮观的爆炸场景，最短的迷你裙，如此长度也真的是接近于煎熬。剪辑掉至少45分钟可以使剧情更加紧凑些，动作更强劲有力，这样观众就不至于太过视觉疲劳。而且这样对制片方也好，可以节省4到5千万美金的成本。
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The appetite for Transformers pictures has been voracious, with each of three live action pictures grossing more than the last, making for a combined total of $2.7 billion at the worldwide box office (not counting the funds pulled in from associated merchandising), so you can well sympathize with Paramount and Habro's reluctance to let the franchise sleep. In recent weeks, they've even dated the next entry for 2016, although Bay has not yet signed on.
The fourth outing, which follows from the events of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, wipes the slate clean, with an entirely new cast and even unleashes fan-favourite Dinobots into the mix. Despite this, the stale formula isn't in the script - it's in Bay himself.
Age of Extinction is one long ass film. At 165 minutes, there is just no way that the kinetic style of filmmaking can hope to sustain audience's attention for that long. Viewing the film in 3D became near painful. The best visual effects, the biggest explosions and the shortest mini-skirts can't overcome this. Cutting at least 45 minutes from the films run time would have resulted in a much tighter experience, with action sequences that pack a punch rather than wear out their welcome and would significantly reduce viewer fatigue. And the studio would have been happy too - it probably would have shaved $40-$50 million off the film's bottom line.
By: Ben Gourlay
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Transformers Extinction (2014)
Whilst critics might rip them apart, there's no denying the spectacle of a Michael Bay blow 'em up picture. From The Rock and Armageddon, to Pearl Harbor and Bad Boys. In the Transformers franchise, he's found an entirely appropriate outlet for his style of filmmaking; a kinetic blend of visual effects and live action, with bright bold colors, lots of explosions and sex appeal.
Such was the success of the model that out of five films in the last seven years, the director has only made one picture that wasn't a Transformers picture. But if the diminishing returns of the franchise are any indication, it's well past time that Bay gave the keys to the playpen for someone else to play with.
Five years on from the events of Dark of the Moon, the Transformers have fallen out of favor with the United States Government, blamed partially for the fallout from the Decepticon devastation that befell Chicago. The remaining Autobots, led by Optimus Prime (voiced once more by Peter Cullen), have been forced into hiding by CIA agent Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer), the head of operation Cemetery Wind, which is responsible for hunting down good and bad robots.
When Prime is discovered by backyard inventor Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) in the guise of a beaten down truck, his daughter Tessa (Nicola Peltz) and her boyfriend Shane (Jack Reynor) became quickly entangled in the battle. Wealthy research firm KSI has discovered the secret to the robots transformation capabilities and replicate their own Transformers, but in doing so, they've unwittingly created an army for the evil Decepticon Galvatron (voiced by Frank Welker).
When Prime is discovered by backyard inventor Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) in the guise of a beaten down truck, his daughter Tessa (Nicola Peltz) and her boyfriend Shane (Jack Reynor) became quickly entangled in the battle. Wealthy research firm KSI has discovered the secret to the robots transformation capabilities and replicate their own Transformers, but in doing so, they've unwittingly created an army for the evil Decepticon Galvatron (voiced by Frank Welker).
The appetite for Transformers pictures has been voracious, with each of three live action pictures grossing more than the last, making for a combined total of $2.7 billion at the worldwide box office (not counting the funds pulled in from associated merchandising), so you can well sympathize with Paramount and Habro's reluctance to let the franchise sleep. In recent weeks, they've even dated the next entry for 2016, although Bay has not yet signed on.
The fourth outing, which follows from the events of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, wipes the slate clean, with an entirely new cast and even unleashes fan-favourite Dinobots into the mix. Despite this, the stale formula isn't in the script - it's in Bay himself.
Age of Extinction is one long ass film. At 165 minutes, there is just no way that the kinetic style of filmmaking can hope to sustain audience's attention for that long. Viewing the film in 3D became near painful. The best visual effects, the biggest explosions and the shortest mini-skirts can't overcome this. Cutting at least 45 minutes from the films run time would have resulted in a much tighter experience, with action sequences that pack a punch rather than wear out their welcome and would significantly reduce viewer fatigue. And the studio would have been happy too - it probably would have shaved $40-$50 million off the film's bottom line.
By: Ben Gourlay
