Transformers: Age of Extinction

**Transformers: Age of Extinction**is a 2014 Science Fiction film. It was directed by Michael Bay. It received negative reviews from critics and a mixed response from audiences. However, it was the highest grossing film of 2014 and is extremely underrated.

## Reasons why it's the best movie of all time!

* It's way better than the first trilogy of Transformers films.
* It's a good soft-reboot.
* It's extremely we'll written.
* The plot is excellent.
* It shows the consequences of the previous film.
* The pacing is perfect despite the overlong runtime.
* The villains are all really good.
* Lockdown is the best villain of the franchise.
* It has several themes of Hypocrisy, Consequences and Misanthropy.
* It has an overarching theme that not everything is meant to be invented.
* It features some excellent new character designs such as the Dinobots, Drift, Crosshairs, Galvatron, Lockdown and Optimus Prime redesigned.
* It features heavy fan-service as it shows damaged Optimus as a trailer unit that resembles his G1 counterpart.
* The new Autobot team, Drift, Crosshairs and Hound is excellent.
* It looks through the source material to find Autobots that are rarely used and makes them lead characters.
* The swords and alien blasters are really cool.
* Cade Yeager is an excellent character that's one of Transformers best human characters in the Transformers franchise.
* It has a lot of character development for Optimus Prime and Cade Yeager.
* The story is excellent as it's about a single father standing up to a corrupt society.
* It focuses on the consequences of the events of the third film.
* The factions of Cemetery Wind, Galvatron's KSI Drones and Lockdown are extremely well connected and all have goals and a major role in the plot.
* It ends in Hong Kong which is a totally different continent than the battles in the rest of the franchise. Also while some critics disagree it makes sense that the company would have a factory in Hong Kong and would be building them near the location where they plan to detonate the MacGuffin.
* The action scenes are very good.
* The KSI infiltration scene is epic.
* The Chase scene introducing Galvatron is very good and well edited.
* The scene infiltrating Lockdown's ship is fantastic.
* The MacGuffin comes from the villain rather than being supposable lost on Earth or the Moon like the other five transformers films.
* The enemy army is generic KSI drones rather than important Decepticons.
* The KSI Drone's unusual transformations are pretty cool for trying something new.
* It features one of Imagine Dragon's best songs, "Battle Cry" in the soundtrack and it's perfectly added into the film.
* The final battle between Optimus and Lockdown is very good.
* Optimus Prime has a no killing rule he's forced to break by the actions of the villain Harold Attinger.
* The Flashback scenes with the dinosaurs are very good.
* It has some awesome side-characters like Darcy and Su Yueming.
* Although Tessa Yeager is annoying, dim-witted and poorly acted, she's a decent rebellious character who just wants to stay out of a criminal lifestyle.
* Joshua Joyce is a well written boss for KSI who has realistic flaws.
* James Savoy is an excellent secondary villain who has a good part up until his death.
* It sets up the higher power of the Creators which pays homage to the Quintessons from G1.
* It would be much better writing for the Transformers to be created by Quintessons then the Cube scene in the first film.
* To keep the creators away from Earth, Optimus Prime leaves the planet at the end.

## Bad Quality

* Michael Bay's direction has a few flaws such as cars without drivers, characters spontaneously changing locations, and a stagehand seen during an explosion.

## Reception

Transformers: Age of Extinction received negative reviews and a score of 18% on Rotten Tomatoes sampled from 216 reviews, with an average score of 4.00/10.

## Box Office

It grossed $1.104 billion against a budget of $210 million.