Transformers: Age of Extinction (or simply Transformers 4) 2014 3D science fiction action film

 

Transformers: Age of Extinction (or simply Transformers 4) is a 2014 3Dscience fiction action film based on the Transformers franchise. It is the fourth installment of the live-action Transformers film series. It is a sequel to 2011'sDark of the Moon, taking place five years after the battle of Chicago. 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 in the lead role, with Peter Cullen reprising his role as the voice ofOptimus Prime. It is the first film in the series to not feature the original human characters from the first three films, but features a whole new cast of human characters and twenty-two new Transformers, including the Dinobotsfor the first time in the series. Returning Transformers includes Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Leadfoot, Brains, and Megatron (now known as Galvatron). The film was released on June 27, 2014, in IMAX and 3D.[7]

It received an average rating of 18% on Rotten Tomatoes. It also received seven nominations at the 35th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, with Bay and Kelsey Grammer winning the awards for Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actorrespectively.[8] However, many praised the visual effects, the action sequences, Steve Jablonsky's musical score, and the performances of Wahlberg, Grammer and Stanley Tucci. Despite the negative reviews, the film was a massive 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 nineteenth film to gross over $1 billion, and the thirteenth highest-grossing film of all time.

A fifth installment, Transformers 5, is set to be released in 2017 with Wahlberg set to return.

Sixty-five million years ago, the alien race known as the "Creators" invade Earth, wiping out most of life on the planet including the dinosaurs with the "Seeds", and cyber-form thousands of planets, including Cybertron. In the present, Darcy Tirrel discovered frozen dinosaur corpses in the Arctic.

Five years after the Battle of Chicago, humanity has grown fearful of the Transformers, resulting in the termination of joint operations with the Autobots. Cemetery Wind, an elite CIA black ops unit formed by opportunistic, ruthless agent and paranoid government official Harold Attinger and team leader James Savoy, is tasked with hunting the remaining Decepticons. However, they have also been secretly hunting Autobots, believing all Transformers to be a threat, despite the Autobots officially being granted sanctuary by the government. With the help from the Cybertronian bounty hunterLockdown, they hunt down, ambush and kill most of the Autobots, including Ratchet and Leadfoot. Optimus Prime is the only Autobot to escape and go into hiding after an ambush in Mexico City, and the primary target whom Lockdown wants captured alive.

In rural Texas, Cade Yeager is an inventor struggling financially, with college funding for his daughter, Tessa, and the loss of his property looming. One day, he and his friend Lucas Flannery discover an old truck in an abandoned theater and they buy it to repair and sell. Cade discovers that the truck is an injured Optimus Prime and repairs him, bringing him back to life. Because Lucas notifies them, Cemetery Wind and Lockdown confront and threaten the Yeagers and Lucas before Optimus attacks and rescues them before Lockdown fires a barricade of missiles and destroys the Yeager's home. Cade, Tessa and Lucas escape with Tessa's secret boyfriend, Shane Dyson. Safety is found after a long chase, but Lucas is killed by one of Lockdown's grenades, while trying to escape. Tensions rise between Cade and the two lovers over their secret relationship while Optimus rallies remaining Autobots Bumblebee, Hound, Drift, and Crosshairs in the desert. Cade hacks into a spy drone he took from the Texas attack, learning of Kinetic Solutions Incorporated (KSI), a technology firm in league with Cemetery Wind, and they decide to infiltrate KSI HQ in Chicago.

Meanwhile, Joshua Joyce, the arrogant head of KSI, shows Darcy, Transformium, the scarce metal of which Transformers are made. He has imprisoned Brains to decode dead and fallen Transformers' minds like Megatron, Sentinel, Leadfoot and Ratchet for raw materials and utilize their data for human-created Transformers "upgrades". Joshua shows Darcy his prized creation Galvatron, created using data from Megatron's severed head. Despite designing Galvatron to look like Optimus Prime it instead resembles Megatron. The Autobots storm the facility, but Joshua stops them, proclaiming the Autobots are no longer needed now that they can create their own Transformers. Disillusioned, the Autobots decide to leave.

Forced by Attinger, Joshua launches Galvatron and Stinger (a man-made Transformer similar to Bumblebee) to pursue the Autobots. Optimus fights Galvatron before Lockdown wounds him, capturing him and Tessa on his ship while Galvatron and Stinger draw back. He explains that those who made the Transformers, the "Creators," want Optimus back. Before leaving, Lockdown gives Cemetery Wind a powerful relic called the Seed, which when detonated transforms living things into transformium and cyberforms wide areas of land, giving the Autobots time to board the ship. Cade and Shane save Tessa and escape with Bumblebee and Crosshairs while Hound and Drift escape with Optimus on a detachable part of Lockdown's ship. Optimus and Brains reveal that Galvatron is the reincarnated Megatron who has manipulated KSI to steal the Seed and rebuild the Decepticons. An enraged Joshua demands to know why he did not have any control over Galvatron, finally deciding to move to his factory in Guangzhou, China. Cade warns Joshua, who retreated to Beijing to use production facilities with Su Yueming, about Galvatron and Attinger. Joshua backs off his deal with Attinger while Galvatron activates himself and infects all the KSI prototypes. Joshua flees with the Seed to Hong Kong, with a betrayed Attinger and Galvatron chasing him.

When the Autobots try to retrieve the Seed at Hong Kong, their ship is shot down by the new Decepticons, leaving the Yeagers, Shane, Hound and Bumblebee to fight. Along the way, Cade kills Savoy in a fist fight in an apartment before Attinger contacts Lockdown for the Autobots' current location, where the Decepticons outnumber and outmatch the Autobots. Knowing this, Optimus releases and tames the legendary warriors known as the Dinobots, with Optimus ridingGrimlock. With their help, the Autobots defeat the Decepticons while Bumblebee manages to kill Stinger while riding Strafe. However, Lockdown, angry that Optimus hijacked part of his ship, returns with a magnetic weapon to reclaim Optimus and the Dinobots. After Optimus destroys the magnetic weapon, he fights Lockdown on an island off Hong Kong. Cade arrives during their fight and attempts to help Optimus, but is attacked and held at gunpoint by Attinger, who proudly justifies his actions before taking his anger out on Cade for siding with the Transformers over humanity (still considering them a threat). Witnessing this, Optimus saves Cade by shooting Attinger, killing him. However, the distraction allows Lockdown to overpower Optimus before impaling him with his sword to a wall. As Cade and Bumblebee fight Lockdown, Tessa and Shane use a tow truck to pull the sword out of Optimus, who surprises and kills Lockdown before he can finish off Cade, avenging the deaths of his fellow Autobots Ratchet, Leadfoot, Sideswipe, Dino, Topspin and Roadbuster.

They defeat the remaining Decepticons as Galvatron, after launching Lockdown's grenade and is the only surviving Decepticon, retreats to an unknown location with Lockdown's ship, vowing that he will return for he is reborn. The Dinobots are then set free and they depart to find their own path as Joyce plans to make amends with Cade by arranging for him and Tessa to gain a new house. Optimus then flies into space with the Seed, sending a message to the Creators that he is coming for them, before ordering the surviving Autobots to protect the Yeagers.

CastMain article: List of Transformers film series characters
HumansMark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager, a single father and struggling inventor.
Stanley Tucci as Joshua Joyce, the arrogant head of KSI who wants to build his own Transformers.[10][11]
Kelsey Grammer as Harold Attinger, a paranoid CIA agent who created the Cemetery Wind to eliminate all Transformers from Earth.
Sophia Myles as Darcy Tirrel, Joshua's geologist assistant.
Nicola Peltz as Tessa Yeager, Cade's daughter who is secretly dating Shane.
Jack Reynor as Shane Dyson, Tessa's boyfriend and an Irish rally car driver.

Titus Welliver as James Savoy, field leader of the Cemetery Wind working for Attinger.
Li Bingbing as Su Yueming (苏月明 Sū Yuèmíng), owner of the Chinese factory used by KSI to build their artificial Transformers.
T. J. Miller as Lucas Flannery, Cade's best friend and a mechanic.

Melanie Specht and Victoria Summer both played Joshua's executive assistants.Ray Lui played a motorcyclist in Hong Kong, while Michael Wong was cast as a Hong Kong police officer.[citation needed] Han Geng had a cameo, singing and playing the guitar in a parked car that is magnetized by Lockdown's ship.[23] General Motors Vice President of DesignEdward T. Welburn had a cameo appearance as a KSI executive. American Idol Season 5 top 12 finalist Kevin Covaismade a minor appearance as a driver.Australian fashion model Jessica Gomes had a brief cameo appearance.

Director Michael Bay also cameoed in the film as the driver of the truck that Optimus Prime and Bumblebee destroyed during their fight against Galvatron. Olympic Champion Zou Shiming briefly appeared as the man in an elevator in Hong Kong who helped Joshua and Yueming.

Transformers
AutobotsPeter Cullen voices Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots who transforms into a rusty Marmon 97 semi truck and later, a blue and red Western Star 4900 Phantom Custom semi-trailer truck.
Bumblebee, an Autobot scout who plays some voice clips and transforms into a modified 1967 Chevrolet Camaro and later, a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro concept.
John Goodman voices Hound, an Autobot commando who transforms into an Oshkosh Defense Medium Tactical Vehicle.
Ken Watanabe voices Drift, an Autobot tactician and a former Decepticon who transforms into a black and blue 2013Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse and a helicopter.
Robert Foxworth voices Ratchet, the Autobot medical officer who transforms into a white and green 2004 search and rescue Hummer H2 ambulance.
John DiMaggio voices Crosshairs, an Autobot paratrooper who transforms into a green 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Stingray.
Reno Wilson voices Brains, a former Decepticon drone turned Autobot who lost his leg.
Leadfoot, the leader of the Wreckers who is seen in a video footage.
Dinobots[edit]
Grimlock, the leader of the Dinobots who transforms into a mechanical horned fire breathing Tyrannosaurus.
Strafe, a Dinobot who specializes in assault infantry and transforms into a mechanical two-headed and two-tailedPteranodon.
Slug, the savage destroyer amongst the Dinobots who transforms into a mechanical spiked and bestialTriceratops.
Scorn, the Dinobots' demolition specialist who transforms into a mechanical three-sailed Spinosaurus.
DecepticonsFrank Welker voices Galvatron, a human-made Transformer rebuilt from Megatron's remains who becomes possessed by Megatron's mind, making him a new body for the Decepticon leader. He molecularly transforms into a black and grey 2014 Freightliner Argosy cab over trailer truck.
Stinger, a human-made Transformer inspired by Bumblebee who later becomes a Decepticon spy and sabotage specialist and molecularly transforms into a red and black 2013 Pagani Huayra.
Junkheap, a human-made Transformer who has a three-man splitting technique & later becomes a Decepticon under Galvatron's control and molecularly transforms into a Mack garbage truck of Waste Management, Inc.
Traxes, the mass-produced human-made Transformers inspired by Roadbuster who later become Decepticons under Galvatron's control and molecularly transform into red/blue/black/white Chevrolet Traxes.
OthersMark Ryan voices Lockdown, a Cybertronian bounty hunter who transforms into a grey 2013 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700–4 Coupe and works for the Creators to bring Optimus Prime to them.[28][30] He also has a group of Mercenaries and a pack of Steeljaws.