Transformers: Age of Extinction

Director: Michael Bay Michael Bay

Overview

The Transformers film series continues with this fourth entry from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg. In the devastating aftermath of the fight for humanity, an enigmatic group strives to alter the course of history as an ancient force of evil plots the destruction of mankind. In order to defeat it, Optimus Prime (voice of Peter Cullen) and the rest of the Autobots must join forces with a new, resilient band of humans who will fight an epic battle that will determine the fate of the entire human race. Mark Wahlberg and Jack Reynor co-star.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/05/2017
UPC:	0032429300461
Original Release:	2014
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Paramount
Time:	2:44:00
Format:	Blu-ray

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mark Wahlberg	Cade Yeager
Jack Reynor	Shane Dyson
Nicola Peltz	Tessa Yeager
Stanley Tucci	Joshua Joyce
Abigail Klein	Joshua's Assistant
Peter Cullen	Optimus Prime
Kelsey Grammer	Harold Attinger
Mark Ryan	Lockdown
Frank Welker	Galvatron
Titus Welliver	James Savoy
Ken Watanabe	Drift
Reno Wilson	Brains
Robert Foxworth	Ratchet
John Goodman	Hound
John DiMaggio	Crosshairs
Sophia Myles	Darcy Tirrel
TJ Miller	Lucas Flannery
Han Geng	Convertible Passenger
Li Bingbing	Su Yueming
James Bachman	Gill Wembley
Thomas Lennon	Chief Of Staff
Charles Parnell	CIA Director
Erika Fong	CIA Analyst
Michael Collins	CIA Analyst
Zou Shiming	Elevator Boxer
Richard Riehle	Theater Landlord
Patrick Bristow	Landlord's Grandson
Cleo King	Realtor
Calvin Wimmer	Realtor Client
Glenn Keogh	Arctic Site Foreperson
David Midthunder	Arctic Site Guard
Richard Gallion	Air Force Operator
Nick Horst	Air Force Technician
Kassem Gharaibeh	Wembley's Associate
Ed Welburn	KSI Executive
Yanis Kalnins	KSI Security Chief
Peter A. Kelly	KSI Guard
Jessica Gomes	KSI Spokesmodel
Andreas Beckett	KSI Scientist
Alexander Leeb	KSI Scientist
Jamison Haase	KSI Robot Controller
Drew Wicks	KSI Robot Controller
Gene Shieh	KSI Factory Executive
Woei Bee	KSI Factory Executive
Wang Ying	KSI Greeter
William Wang	KSI Worker
Melanie Specht	Joshua's Assistant
Lin Po Hung	Attinger's Driver
Kevin Covais	Dorky Driver
Blair Adam Baillio	Robot Thief
Mikal A. Vega	Cemetery Wind Team
Andrew Arrabito	Cemetery Wind Team
Michael Wong	Hong Kong Police Chief
Winston Yeh Kingman	Hong Kong Man In Suit
Ray Lui	Motorcycle Owner
Candice Zhao	Woman In Elevator
Li Jun Ting	Hong Kong Police Officer
Howard Y. Woo	Hong Kong Police Officer
Jingsheng Yu	Hong Kong Police Officer
Zhang Tianyu	Pangu Hotel Greeter
Wu Gang	Chinese Minister Of Defense
Teresa Daley	Assistant To Minister Of Defense

Technical Credits

Ehren Kruger

Michael Bay	Director,Executive Producer
Erik Aadahl	Sound/Sound Designer
Alberto Martinez Arce	Animator
Scott Baker	Set Decoration/Design
Mike Beaulieu	Animator
Cameron Birnie	Set Decoration/Design
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura	Producer
Ian Bryce	Producer
Marco Capparelli	Animator
Derrick Carlin	Animator
Gan Sze Ching	Animator
Gerald Clevy	Animator
Mickael Coedel	Animator
Matthew Cohan	Co-producer
Stephen Cooper	Art Director
Matthew Cowie	Animator
Robert Cox	Set Decoration/Design
Sherrie Dai	Art Director
Tom Desanto	Producer
Peter Devlin	Sound Mixer
Benjamin Edelberg	Art Director
KNB EFX	Makeup Special Effects
Simon Fillat	Animator
John Frazier	Special Effects Supervisor
Ronny Gani	Animator
Emile Ghorayeb	Animator
Brian Goldner	Executive Producer
Yair Gutierrez	Animator
Jean-Denis Haas	Animator
Jeffrey J. Haboush	Sound Mixer
Chi Ho	Art Director
K.C. Hodenfield	Asst. Director,Co-producer
Allen Holbrook	Animator
Tan Woei Hong	Animator
Hugo Santiago	Set Decoration/Design
Tan Jinng Hwee	Animator
Industrial Light & Magic	Animator
Rob Johnson	Set Decoration/Design
Michael Kase	Co-producer
Josh Kent	Animator
Brad Kinley	Animator
Bria Kinter	Set Decoration/Design
Atsushi Kojima	Animator
Ehren Kruger	Screenwriter
Ivan Lam	Production Manager
Kai-Hua Lan	Animator
Marco LaTorre	Animator
Alexander K. Lee	Animator
Longfei Liang	Co-producer
Zeng Lin	Animator
Sylvia Liu	Asst. Director
Dave Logan	Animator
John Marquis	Sound/Sound Designer
Scott Millan	Sound Mixer
Mathieu Di Muro	Animator
Don Murphy	Producer
Ullas Narayana	Animator
Yuhon Ng	Animator
Jee Young Park	Animator
Tobias Poppe	Sound/Sound Designer
Ben Procter	Art Director
Jay Rennie	Animator
Regan Riskas	Associate Producer
Anthony Rizzo	Animator
Saw Ronald	Animator
Greg P. Russell	Sound Mixer
Sebastian Schroeder	Art Director
David E. Scott	Art Director
Chong Kian Shyang	Animator
Keith A. Sintay	Animator
William Ladd Skinner	Art Director
Steven Spielberg	Executive Producer
Veara Suon	Animator
Roy Tan	Animator
Andre Tong	Animator
Chris Tost	Animator
Greg Towner	Animator
Chi Tsi	Animator
Mark Vahradian	Executive Producer
Ethan Van der Ryn	Sound/Sound Designer
Cassius Vaz	Production Manager
Bob Wilson	Animator
Dany Wolf	Co-producer
Edmund Wong	Animator
Kirsten Yamaguchi	Animator
Nyma Yeung	Set Decoration/Design

Editorial Reviews

If you've been onboard with the Transformers franchise this long, you have some pretty well-formed expectations by now for what these movies will give you -- both good and bad. So let's just view the latest edition, Transformers: Age of Extinction, on a relative scale: This is probably the best film so far in the series. Michael Bay seems to have addressed a lot of the criticisms levied at the past few Transformers movies, because his latest Optimus Prime opus improves on numerous things viewers and critics have complained about. Although it should be said that some Bay-isms, for better or worse, remain the same. Let's go point by point. Here's the first note Michael Bay took to heart: Everybody's sick of Shia LaBeouf. This movie instead stars Mark Wahlberg as a down-on-his-luck, rural-dwelling robotics engineer/quirky but buff tinkerer named Cade Yeager, who's been raising his 17-year-old daughter Tessa (Nicola Peltz) alone since her mom died many years ago. They live in a picturesque farmhouse on a bucolic dirt road, where he repairs local machinery and electronics in the barn in between inventing his own robotic contraptions and scrapping giant, mysterious Mack trucks he unexpectedly discovers on junking trips with his comic-relief buddy Lucas (T.J. Miller). But none of this pays the bills, and their house is being foreclosed on. Then one Mack truck turns out to be Optimus Prime. The leader of the Autobots needs help and Cade fixes him up a bit, but soon a cadre of Black Ops secret agents show up and threaten to kill everybody because, apparently, the director of the CIA (Kelsey Grammer) has decided that it doesn't matter if a Transformer is a good guy (an Autobot) or a bad guy (a Decepticon), they're all aliens and they should all be exterminated. Have you seen any of the X-Men movies? It's like that. Just then, a blond, ruddy-faced, Australian-looking kid (who's actually Irish) shows up and rescues everybody in his rally car. Turns out he's Tessa's secret boyfriend Shane (Jack Reynor), whom she's somehow been regularly drag racing with while her overprotective dad failed to notice. The group take off, eventually meeting up with Optimus and the only four other Autobots left on Earth. This is a good moment to point out another note Bay took from the public opinion: The Transformers in this movie look visually distinct. When one robot gets into a fight with another robot, it's not a blur of metallic crunching; you can actually see who is fighting whom. The five Autobots have distinct faces, colors, and themes: One is a fat, steel-cigar-chomping soldier with a chain-link beard (voiced by John Goodman); one is a metallic samurai (Ken Watanabe); one wears a bright-green coat and for some reason is British (John DiMaggio); and one is everybody's favorite underdog, the extremely yellow Bumblebee. Even Optimus himself gets a more articulate, human-looking face and a brighter-blue paintjob. Which leads to another complaint from audiences that Bay heard loud and clear: We're here for Optimus Prime. Still played by Peter Cullen, who voiced the character in the 1984 cartoon series, the warrior king of our childhood psyches evinces wonderment and affection with that resonant call to arms, "Autobots, assemble!," and Bay finally knows it. He makes Optimus the emotional heart of his ridiculous sci-fi story, trusting that our reverence for him will be enough. Relatively speaking (for the Transformers series), it is. It also helps that Bay cut down the sheer number of robot characters to the small quintet of Autobots we follow throughout the story. But one area where he hasn't learned his lesson is the runtime. It's nearly three hours long, and the biggest bit of Optimus Prime-related applause happens at almost two hours and 25 minutes into the film. Audiences might be too worn out by Bay's impossibly deft action-sequence staging to cheer, even if it's the most badass moment in the movie (OPTIMUS PRIME ON A T. REX!), and that's because there are still way too many bad guys and semi-inscrutable plot lines tying everything together. There's the aforementioned CIA baddy played by Grammer, a pointlessly evil field op (Titus Welliver), a soulless technology mogul (Stanley Tucci), a new Deceptacon kingpin, a legion of fighting-robot minions, AND a random Deceptacon mercenary from space with a completely unintelligible agenda. Additionally, while the joyless Man of Steel hopefully reminded action fans of the value of a little exuberance and humor, Bay's bottom-of-the-barrel taste occasionally veers from brainless fun to kind of a bummer. As an example, during a prison raid into the Decepticons' brig, the cigar-chomping Autobot gets spat on by a buggy-looking monster in a cage, so he shoots it. The moment is played for laughs, but something about it seems like he's shooting an ugly dog -- the audience just cringes. And for a movie based on a toy franchise, the number of people/Transformers/dinosaurs that get violently flash-incinerated, ripped apart limb from limb, or crushed in a destroyed building can just feel weird sometimes. Not to mention that all of the women in the film were lifted out of either an '80s beer ad or a Helmut Newton photo. All the perfect lipstick, unchipped nail polish, and high heels worn in every situation get sort of glaring after a while. It's not that Bay seems aggressively hateful, but he does seem weirdly clueless -- like nobody will wonder why every single woman in his movie must be wearing false eyelashes at all times. Meanwhile, Kelsey Grammer and Stanley Tucci just look like middle-aged dudes. Clearly, none of this is an effective deal breaker. We're four films in; if you're down for a Transformers movie, you're definitely down for this one. And hey, nobody can deny that hot babes in short shorts might be on your list for what you WANT from a Michael Bay film. But nothing beats Optimus Prime riding a T. rex.

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