20 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The Transformers Franchise

7. Bay Will Never Top The Battle Of Chicago

Michael Bay truly out-Michael Bayed himself in the third movie, Dark of the Moon, delivering a nearly hour-long finale dubbed the Battle of Chicago, a relentless, exhausting set-piece that totally made up for the overstuffed dialogues, needless characters and everything else that comprises every live-action Transformers movie to date. The inherent problem with crafting something so deliriously entertaining, though, is that it's virtually impossible to come up with a way to top it. Age of Extinction made this point clear: its action, while well-crafted now and then, just couldn't find a way to measure up to the previous film's insanely ambitious, chaotic set-piece, settling for some of the more forgettable shoot 'em up action seen in Revenge of the Fallen. It's hard to believe that Bay could ever really top the third film's set-piece: it is about as Michael Bay as Michael Bay can surely go, though if the series goes into space for TF5, as Age of Extinction teases, then at least audiences might get some action that's a little more unique.
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