Every Transformers Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
7. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
Picking a worst of the bunch is actually pretty tough because there are at least a few solid contenders, though 2014's fourth entry takes the cake for its sheer unapologetic, monotonous excess and that troubling moment.
Clocking in at a stamina-assaulting 165 minutes, Age of Extinction ditches Shia LaBeouf and drafts Mark Wahlberg in as his replacement, yet the core of the movie remains as crass and immature as ever.
This is a film where the boyfriend of Wahlberg's character's daughter (Jack Reynor) has to produce a card to prove he's not a statutory rapist, and it doesn't get much better from there.
The China setting is clearly just a transparent attempt to boost the box office (and it worked), while the movie is jam-packed with aggressive product placements, including a borderline-hilarious sequence where a Transformer crashes into a Bud Light truck, catapulting beer bottles all over the road.
The too-good-for-this Kelsey Grammer and Stanley Tucci provide some light relief, and Titus Welliver delivers arguably the series' most knowingly absurd one-liner to date ("My face is my warrant"), but the Dinobots get disappointingly lost in the movie's exhaustingly chaotic shuffle.
Also in a moment of surely wilful trolling on Bay's part, he has the nerve to have a character complain about Hollywood's lack of imagination. Jeez.