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Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. It is the fourth installment of the live-action Transformers film series and a sequel to 2011's Dark of the Moon, taking place five years after its events. Like its predecessors, it was directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger, with Steven Spielberg and Bay as executive producers. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver, and T. J. Miller.

Plot
Five years after the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons that leveled Chicago, humanity thinks that all alien robots are a threat. So Harold Attinger, a CIA agent, establishes a unit whose sole purpose is to hunt down all of them. But it turns out that they are aided by another alien robot who is searching for Optimus Prime. Cade Yeager, a "robotics expert", buys an old truck and upon examining it, he thinks it's a Transformer. When he powers it up, he discovers it's Optimus Prime. Later, men from the unit show up looking for Optimus. He helps Yeager and his daughter Tessa escape but are pursued by the hunter. They escape and Yeager learns from technology he took from the men that a technology magnate and defense contractor named Joshua Joyce is part of what's going on, so they go to find out what's going on.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Just like the previous two terrible Transformers movies, the movie keeps having a lot of same problems from the two inferior Transformers films.
 * 2) The acting from the human characters are horrendous, especially for Mark Wahlberg, and Stanley Tucci and most of the other cass for may reasons:
 * 3) The movie's length is way too long for a Transformers (or a toy film) film, with the runtime is 165 minutes, with practically nothing going on in this movie.
 * 4) The movie recycles way too many plot elements and tropes, one of the worst examples is the scene where the Autobots got on a battle on a huge spaceship in Chicago, making the whole battle feels like a rehash to Dark of the Moon.
 * 5) False Advertising: There was going to have a Dinobot in the movie, However, the Dinobots barely get the amount of screen time in the film and he does appear in the final act.
 * 6) The pacing is very slow.
 * 7) Lots of paddling that makes the whole movie feels longer than it actually is.
 * 8) It still overuses a lot of explosions, and destruction, since it was directed by Micheal Bay.
 * 9) Plot-holes, plot holes everywhere.
 * 10) *Why an Arctic officer aimed Darcy for no reason?
 * 11) *When they got away from their house as it explodes,
 * 12) Many of the action scenes tried so hard to be fun, and exciting, but most of the action scenes were generic, and mediocre throughout the movie.
 * 13) It creates numerous produced placements everywhere across the film, especially for CNN, Oreo cookies, Goodyear, etc..
 * 14) *What's more, whatever you liked My Little Pony, or not, there is a very shoehorned and shameless produce placement from Hasbro that Rainbow Dash appears from [[mh:besttvshows:My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic}} as it turns Rainbow Dash into a gun.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The CGI is still great, much like the previous films.
 * 2) The cinematography isn't too bad.
 * 3) Cade Yeager is a tolerable protagonist, despite his acting is poor.
 * 4) Just like Dark of the Moon, the Transformers do almost get a lot of screen time, which it still makes it feel like this is a Transformers movie.
 * 5) Decent final battle at Hong Kong.
 * 6) The fighting scenes are still cool, even if they're not as good as the previous films.
 * 7) The soundtrack that was performed by Steve Jablonsky is the best selling point to this movie.

Critical response
The film received generally negative reviews from critics, audience, and fans of the series, the film has an approval rating of 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 206 reviews, with an average rating of 3.96/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "With the fourth installment in Michael Bay's blockbuster Transformers franchise, nothing is in disguise: Fans of loud, effects-driven action will find satisfaction, and all others need not apply." Metacritic scores the film a 32/100 based on 38 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Box Office
The film was a box office success, grossing over $1.104 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 2014, the second-highest-grossing film in the Transformers series, the 19th film to gross over $1 billion, and the 29th-highest-grossing film of all time. It was the sole film to gross over $1 billion in 2014.