special effects and some "good fun"

Rating: 2/10 (4 October 2014)

I spent an evening in a room with a TV set, for reasons that don't matter in this review. It turned out that a producer on one of the channels wanted to treat the audience with a Michael Bay double feature. The reason for that was the cinema premiere of Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Quickly i started treating the TV set as moving picture on the wall and did some other things while occasionally casting a glance in it's direction. But i didn't really miss much. It quickly became clear that this movie has great special effects bordering with a video game brought to cinema. Therefore the second star in my rating.
Shia LaBeouf has one and the same facial expression throughout most the movie which also summarizes his acting in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley might look interesting in some men's magazine, with or without her clothes, but as soon as she opens her mouth, her inability to act becomes obvious, even at the low level implied by this movie.
Even this is too much text for such a moneymaking masterpiece.