Transformers 4: 10 Things That Sucked

3. Too Much Human Drama

Transformers Age Of Extinction Nicola PeltzParamount PicturesWe complain about this every time a new Transformers movie comes out, but yet again, Bay and Kruger seem to be under the impression that audiences actually enjoy watching obnoxious human characters talking more than they want to see giant metal robots smashing the living Bajesus out of one another. Once again, the human characters are just lent too much import, with a strange amount of screen time devoted to "character development", even if these characters should really just be a means to an end: a way to establish a story and provide something on which jaw-dropping action sequences can be conveniently hung. Instead, we have to suffer through countless scenes of Wahlberg playing the protective father to his daughter, and one bizarre subplot regarding the propriety of Reynor's character's relationship with her, considering he is 20 years old and she is 17. It might work if we're dealing with a Nicholas Sparks adaptation, but what does this really add to a Transformers movie? Absolutely nothing. If Bay cut out all of this extraneous character work, the movie would be at least 15 or 20 minutes shorter instantly, and we'd all like it a lot more. Yes, it seems that cinema has gotten to the point that where we're actually looking for hollow, underdeveloped characters. This is the brink that Michael Bay has pushed us to...
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