![]() ![]() ![]() In its third hour, when the movie spins off its narrative rails, Trans4mers goes botsh-t crazy. It also bears the signature excesses and lapses of Hollywood’s most incorrigible director of megabudget action pictures and then some. The movie is likely to register 2014’s first $100 million three-day weekend at the domestic box office and match or exceed the $1.1 billion worldwide take of Bay’s last Transformers installment, the 2011 Dark of the Moon. After three episodes headlined by Shia LaBeouf as a young adult who befriends the Autobot Optimus Prime, Bay launches a new cast of characters to fit into the ongoing intergalactic battle of Prime and his giant-car pals against the bad-bot Decepticons.īoth a sequel and a reboot, Transformers: Age of Extinction, which we’ll call Trans4mers, is the blockbuster the film industry has been waiting for all year. Billionaire scientist Joshua Joyce (Stanley Tucci) has found a new element called transformium - harvested from the spare parts of captured Autobots - and exults, “We can change anything into anything!” Michael Bay must think his Transformers series, based on the Hasbro toys and TV series, is equally malleable.
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