Transformers: Age of Extinction

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, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Sophia Myles, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver, and T. J. Miller. It does not feature the original human cast from the previous three films, and instead introduces a new human cast and many new Transformers, including the Dinobots. Returning Transformers include Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Brains, and Megatron (now known as Galvatron). The film was released on June 27, 2014, in IMAX and 3D.
The screenplay was written by Ehren Kruger. Age of Extinction was the first feature film to be shot on smaller digital IMAX cameras, as well as various other film formats, such as IMAX 70mm film cameras, digital stereo 3-D, and anamorphic and spherical 35mm film'. The film received praise for its visual effects, sound design, action sequences, darker tone, storyline, musical score, performances (particularly Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, and Kelsey Grammer), and voice acting (particularly Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, and Mark Ryan). The movie 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. It was followed by The Last Knight.
==Plot==
65 million years ago, an alien race known as "the Creators" used devices called Seeds to cover Earth with an alloy that will one day be called "Transformium", wiping out the dinosaurs in the process. In the present day, geologist Darcy Tirrel excavates the Transformium for K.S.I. Industries, who use it to build Transformers drones.
Five years after the Battle of Chicago , the people have started to view the Transformers as public enemies. Though the public believes that the Autobots were granted sanctuary, they are in fact hunted down by a rogue CIA black ops division, Cemetery Wind, led by opportunistic, corrupt intelligence operative Harold Attinger, who has delusions that all Transformers are dangerous and must be destroyed. They are aided by Lockdown, a Cybertronian assassin and bounty hunter working for the Creators is tasked to find Optimus Prime and kill any Autobots who refuse to give up his location. In exchange, he gives Attinger a Seed if his division manages to capture Optimus. Lockdown locates and kills Ratchet when he refuses to give up the whereabouts of Optimus Prime.
Optimus, damaged in Mexico City and disguised as an old Marmon 97 semi-truck, is discovered by Cade Yeager, a financially struggling Texan inventor. While his teenage daughter Tessa and business partner Lucas Flannery encourage him to turn Optimus over to the authorities, Cade instead fixes Optimus, hoping to understand his technology. Still skeptical of Optimus, Lucas calls Cemetery Wind who attacks the Yeager farm, but Optimus, and Tessa’s secret boyfriend, Irish rally car driver Shane Dyson, come to the family’s aid. During the pursuit, Lucas is killed by one of Lockdown’s grenades. Optimus summons the surviving Autobots – Bumblebee, Hound, Drift, and Crosshairs – who have come to distrust humans. Using a stolen CIA drone, Cade discovers K.S.I.’s involvement in the attacks on the Autobots.
Infiltrating K.S.I.'s headquarters in Chicago, Cade discovers the dead Autobots and Decepticons are being melted down to make the drones. Joshua Joyce, the ambitious company CEO, is in league with Attinger to revolutionize global defenses and improve human society using the Seed. He has also used the captured Brains and Megatron’s head to create prototype Transformer soldiers Galvatron and Stinger. Despite Joshua wanting Galvatron to look more like Optimus Prime, the finished Galvatron resembles Megatron. The Autobots storm the building and destroy the laboratory, but they soon leave after Joshua announces that they are no longer required. Attinger forces Joshua to deploy the destructive Galvatron to capture the Autobot terrorists. During the battle, Galvatron's behavior becomes slightly erratic when it starts destroying vehicles, but Joshua manages to redirect it to target the Autobots. As Galvatron battles Optimus, it gets autonomously freed from control, surprising Joshua. Suddenly, Lockdown arrives and soon abducts both Optimus and Tessa, leaving Cade and Shane devastated.
While Lockdown’s large prison spacecraft hovers over Chicago to hand over the Seed, Cade, Shane, and the Autobots sneak on board to rescue Optimus and Tessa. They hijack a smaller ship, containing a number of other Autobots called the Dinobots, just before Lockdown leaves Earth. The Autobots reveal to Cade that Galvatron is in fact Megatron reincarnated, plotting to use the Seed and his control transformed 5 Chevrolet Traxes (4 colored KSI Sentries and Two Heads) A Dodge Carvan (KSI Boss) A MACK TerraPro Garbage Truck (Big Junkheap Medium Junkheap Little Junkheap) and a Pagani Huayra (Stinger) Into the Decepticon drones to conquer the world, starting with Hong Kong, as KSI plans to use the Seed in the Mongolian desert to create vast amounts of usable Transformium. Cade informs Joshua, causing him to have a change of heart, and agrees to hand over the Seed with help from Darcy and his Chinese business associate Su Yueming. Galvatron reactivates himself and a battle follows in Hong Kong’s streets between the Autobots, Cemetery Wind, and the drones. During the fight, Optimus frees the Dinobots and wins their allegiance though trial by combat and they become essential to the Autobots' victory.
Lockdown returns to capture Optimus and the Dinobots, using a large magnet to cause destruction. After disabling the magnet, Optimus fights Lockdown at an abandoned factory. In the ensuring duel, Optimus kills Attinger, but allowing Lockdown to pin Optimus down with his own sword. Cade ends up fighting Lockdown one-on-one while Tessa and Shane free Optimus, who kills Lockdown, avenging Ratchet’s death. Galvatron retreats, vowing to return. Optimus asks the Autobots to protect the Yeagers, before flying away into space with the Seed, sending a message to the Creators that he is coming for them.
== Cast ==
=== Humans ===
* Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager
*Jack Reynor as Shane Dyson
* Nicola Peltz as Tessa Yeager
* Stanley Tucci as Joshua Joyce
* Kelsey Grammer as Harold Attinger
* Titus Welliver as James Savoy
* T. J. Miller as Lucas Flannery
* Sophia Myles as Darcy Tirrel
* Li Bingbing as Su Yueming
* James Bachman as Gill Wembley 
* Thomas Lennon as Chief of Staff
=== Autobots ===
*Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime 
*Bumblebee
*John Goodman as Hound
*Ken Watanabe as Drift
*John DiMaggio as Crosshairs
*Robert Foxworth as Ratchet/Leadfoot
*Reno Wilson as Brains
==== Dinobots ====
* Grimlock 
* Scorn 
* Slug 
* Strafe
=== Decepticons ===
*Frank Welker as Galvatron
*Stinger
*Junkheap Triplets
*Traxes (Red, Blue, Black and White,)
*Two Head
*KSI Sentries
*KSI Boss
*McLaren Prototype
*Aston Martin Prototype
*KSI Enforcer
*Insecticon
===Non-Aligned===
====Knight Ship crew====
*Mark Ryan as Lockdown
*Steeljaw
*Shadow Raider
*Stupid Drone
*Pusher Drone
====KSI Prototypes====
*Oreo Bot (uncredited)
=== Trivia ===
* Age of Extinction can be considered as the live action of the 1986 animated film and Season 3 of the cartoon.
*In one scene, Gill Wembley is seen holding a plush doll of Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. This is a reference to the franchise being own by Hasbro, the same company that owns Transformers.
==Gallery==
Optimus Prime - Western Star semi-truck.jpg|Optimus Prime as a custom-built Western Star semi-truck
Bumblebee Transformers 4.jpg|Bumblebee as a highly modified 1967 Camaro SS
BumblebeeTransformers42014.jpg|Bumblebee as a 2014 Chevy Camaro concept
Rescue Vehicle.jpeg|Ratchet as a Hummer Rescue Vehicle 
Leadfootaltmodetf3.png|Leadfoot as a Armored NASCAR Chevrolet Impala 
Slingshot - 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray C7.jpg|Crosshairs as a 2014 C7 Corvette Stingray
Drift - 2013 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse.jpg|Drift as a 2013 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse
Tf4driftaltmode2.png|Drift as a Sikorsky S-97 Raider
Military Truck.jpg|Hound as an Oshkosh Defense Medium Tactical Vehicle
File:Laptop Alt Mode- Brains.jpeg|Brains as a Lenovo ThinkPad notebook Laptop
File:Dinobot Grimlock.jpg|Grimlock as a Tyrannosaurus Rex
File:Dinobot Slug.jpg|Slug as a Triceratops 
File:Dinobot Scorn.jpg|Scorn as a Spinosaurus
File:Dinobot Strafe.jpg|Strafe as a Twin-headed Pteranodon 
LamborghiniAventadorAutobot.jpg|Lockdown, Lamborghini Decepticons and Shadow Raider as a 2013 Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4
Steeljaw (AOE).jpeg|Steeljaw as a Wolf
Transformers-4-Sonic-RS-Rally-Car.jpg|Chevrolet Sonic RS rally car
Pagani-Huayra-Transformers-4-Autobot.jpg|Stinger as a 2013 Pagani Huayra
2014FreightlinerArgosy.jpg|Galvatron as a 2014 Freightliner Argosy cab over truck
Chinese Concept Car E-jet.jpg|Chinese Concept Car E-jet
Garbage Truck.jpeg|All Three Junkheap as a MACK TerraPro Garbage Truck
White 2013 Production Camaro.jpg|White 2013 Production Camaro
File:Black Chevy Traxes.jpeg|Two Heads as a Chevrolet Trax
File:KSI Bosses-1.jpeg|KSI Boss as a Dodge Caravan
File:Red Chevy Trax.jpeg|KSI Sentry (Red) As a Chevrolet Trax
File:Blue Chevy Trax.jpeg|KSI Sentry (Blue) As a Chevrolet Trax
File:Black Chevy Traxes.jpeg|KSI Sentry (Black) as a Chevrolet Trax
File:White Chevy Trax.jpeg|KSI Sentry (White) As a Chevrolet Trax
Aston Martin Vanquish.jpg|Aston Martin Decepticon as a Aston Martin Vanquish
Mclaren-mp4-12c.jpg|McLaren Decepticon as a McLaren MP4-12C
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Transformers-4-Sword.jpg|Cybertronian sword
Optimus Prime riding Grimlock.jpg|Optimus Prime riding Grimlock into battle
Strafe.jpg|Bumblebee and Strafe
Age-of-Extinction-Spaceship.jpg
OptimusridingGrimlockconcept.jpg
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Vlcsnap-2016-05-25-03h04m05s714.jpg|Optimus Prime Fights Galvatron
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