![]() ![]() But in Age of Extinction, the movie's multitude of inexplicable plots go nowhere and, in addition being largely incoherent, put the movie at a runtime-165 minutes-that means it stays way past its welcome.Īge, which opens today, starts somewhere in the Arctic, where a metallic dinosaur skeleton has been located. ![]() ![]() Plus it's a Michael Bay movie he's sticking to his flashy, well-shot guns, so expecting Martin Scorsese is ridiculous. Like its predecessors, it's a movie about alien robots that turn into automobiles and get into massive fights. Here's the thing: No one is going into the latest Transformers installment without the ability to suspend disbelief. Probably.Īctually, I have no idea what Transformers: Age of Extinction was supposed to be about-I don't think it did either-but by the end Optimus Prime had ridden a fire-breathing Dinobot like he was President Obama on a unicorn in an internet meme, so I guess it wasn't all bad. It's definitely about people being filmed from the ground up getting out of cars in slow motion, and Mark Wahlberg in a really tight T-shirt. No, wait, it's about American exceptionalism and intergalactic jingoism. Transformers: Age of Extinction-the fourth installment in Michael Bay's quest to turn Hasbro toys into VFX piggy banks-is about what happens when we as a people fear the "other" so much we're willing to turn on each other to extract it from our lives. ![]()
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