20 Terrible 2014 Movies That Should Never Have Happened

19. Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 18% Michael Bay sadly fails to live up to the surprising awesomeness of the third film, Dark of the Moon, which while overlong, delivered a certifiably insane climactic set-piece with the Battle of Chicago. Number four, Age of Extinction, is one of the most exhaustingly bloated blockbusters in recent memory, a 165-minute stew of the casual racism, rampant sexism, crude humour, egregious product placements and occasional explosions everyone expects from these movies by now. Though Mark Wahlberg is a fine choice for the protagonist (even though he hardly passes muster as an inventor), he's not given much of interest to do, nor are co-leads Jack Raynor and Nicola Peltz, so inconsequential and given such poor dialogue throughout that it's no surprise their performances ring hilariously hollow. Stanley Tucci gives an amusingly hammy turn later on in the movie as possibly the only actor here who knows exactly what he's doing, but on the whole, this wildly excessive actioner can't bring itself to compete with what came before. Still, that didn't stop it becoming the highest-grossing film of 2014 worldwide, scooping over $1 billion at the box office.