Transformers: Age Of Extinction - 10 Ways Michael Bay Stole Your Money
7. All Action But No Excitement
Given how lame and embarrassing the pratfalls were in the previous instalments (remember Skids and Mudflap?), Bay decides to tone down the humour in favour of action, perhaps forgetting the been there, done that feel of Dark Of The Moon, where one sequence in particular seemed to copy a chase scene from The Island. Approximately half the film is given over to the slam-bang stuff, but in Bays hands it feels longer. Whatever your opinion of the first instalment, it had the good sense to leave the fireworks for the finale so the picture actually built up to something, but here its just the same thing over and over again, so when (huge spoiler alert) Optimus Prime emerges triumphant, theres no satisfaction, just a sense of are we done yet?
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
