Transformers: Age Of Extinction
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 27, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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14
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21
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Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 26, 2014
It's big, it's loud and it's all over the place, never really making a lick of sense. To his credit, sort of, director Michael Bay tries to insert a little story into the film early on, even a little humor, but that's overrun at some point by explosions and plot digressions. Read full review
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Boston GlobePeter KeoughJun 26, 2014
One thing you have to give Bay credit for: He has a knack for bringing A-list talent down to his level. Like Mark Wahlberg, Oscar nominee for “The Fighter” and “The Departed.” Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 26, 2014
Age of Extinction is just another warmed-over, cynical, ATM machine of a movie. It’s soulless eye candy. Read full review
38
Chicago Tribune Christopher BorrelliJun 26, 2014
It is scattered, weightless, impossible to get hold of, and somehow, after seven years and more than 10 hours of screen time, I could not tell you what these films are about. Read full review
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Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJun 27, 2014
Who can really differentiate between these films anyway? In the end, they all devolve (evolve?) into clashing, clanging bots. Read full review
20
CineVueEd FranklJul 10, 2014
Does Michael Bay fit the criteria of an auteur? He certainly has his own line of distinctive tropes: the migraine-inducing noise, the fetishistic gloss, the playground-bully characters elevated to hero status and a fervently male gaze. Read full review
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EmpireOwen WilliamsJul 7, 2014
The loyal fans — and they are legion — will trot out clichés like, “Leave your brain at the door,” and defend Age Of Extinction’s right to be nothing but a succession of varoom! and kersmash! sequences. For those who aren’t still blindly faithful to something they liked when they were nine, despite the colossal scale, there’s little to see here. Read full review
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Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyJun 27, 2014
Ultimately, Age of Extinction is an endless barrage of nonsense and noise. Read full review
61
Film.comJordan HoffmanJun 26, 2014
Either I’m getting dumber or the “Transformers” sequels are getting more coherent. Read full review
67
HitfixDrew McWeenyJun 22, 2014
Age Of Extinction more than delivers on whatever promises Bay makes to an audience at this point. Giant robots. Giant mayhem. Destruction on a global scale. You know what you're in for if you buy a ticket, and Bay seems determined to wear you down with the biggest craziest Transformers movie yet. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyJun 26, 2014
Let's say "Bayed," as in "being Bayed," is the core principle at work in the films. In general, being Bayed means being beaten, blasted, bashed, crushed, melted, morphed, reconstituted and remade over and over and over again. Read full review
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McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJun 26, 2014
Age of Extinction runs on and on, popcorn piffle without end. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezJun 26, 2014
[A] visually stunning, technically impressive and crushingly dumb and overlong picture. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJun 26, 2014
If you're not an 11-year-old boy, or a grown-up in the mood to feel like one, the endless "wow!-that-car-is-now-a-deep-voiced-robot" scenes lack thrill. In fact, the action scenes, as in the previous films, are downright headache-inducing. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJun 27, 2014
Nearly three %$^&%!!# hours, and they’re brain-freezing. Read full review
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New York PostKyle SmithJun 25, 2014
You get the feeling the guy who wrote Transformers: Age of Extinction used the entire script as a passive-aggressive running joke on his boss, director Michael Bay. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianStephen WhittyJun 26, 2014
The bi-culturalism actually is kind of fitting. Asia sends us their junk as toys. We repurpose that junk and send it back as movies. See? Recyling. Everybody wins. Except audiences. Read full review
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ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 27, 2014
This is as excruciating a movie as is likely to be experienced by anyone, anywhere. It isn't merely that the story is insulting, the characters are bland, the action is dull, and the CGI is everywhere - it's that all this goes on for nearly three hours. That's three hours of your life you'll never get back. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyJun 26, 2014
Confounding. But not without its thrills. Read full review
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Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 26, 2014
The Bay-man has made the worst and most worthless Transformers movie yet. I know, hard to believe, right? How could any summer blockbuster be as dull, dumb and soul-sucking as the first three Transformers movies? Step right up. Read full review
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San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubJun 26, 2014
Imagine if instead of creating new music, a recording artist kept putting out the exact same album, just playing the songs a little louder each time. That's what it feels like watching Transformers: Age of Extinction. Read full review
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St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJun 26, 2014
Because the affable Wahlberg is making the sales pitch, you could kid yourself that this is just a high-tech vacuum cleaner, built to siphon loose change like popcorn. But our failure to understand the terrifying significance of the “Transformers” series is why we're in the age of extinction. Read full review
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Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 30, 2014
The fourth episode in a saga that didn't need a second, Age of Extinction, is 2 hours and 45 minutes of numbing dumb and dull end credits listing the artists cashing in. It is exactly what moviegoers who made this franchise thrive deserve. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJun 26, 2014
The fourth, longest, and flimsiest entry in the director’s signature franchise finds Bay mostly in cruise control, snapping to only when the movie veers away from the “robots fighting in tax-friendly locations” formula—which, unfortunately, isn’t very often. Read full review
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The DissolveMatt SingerJun 26, 2014
Give Age Of Extinction this much credit: Of all the Transformers movies, this is the longest. And save for a few visual centerpieces and a couple of amusing supporting turns, it’s also an endless, incoherent mess. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Dave McGinnJun 26, 2014
Everything about Michael Bay’s fourth Transformers movie is too much. Its 165 minute running time. Its convoluted plot. Its deafening score. Its product placement. Its never-ending action scenes. Its swooping camera work. Its overwhelming stupidity. Well before it finished I was numb from its bludgeoning excess. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterClarence TsuiJun 22, 2014
Belying its ominous title, Age of Extinction barely skirts the idea that humankind and planet Earth are about to be totally annihilated. What is extinguished is the audience's consciousness after being bombarded for nearly three hours with overwrought emotions...bad one-liners and battles that rarely rise above the banal. Read full review
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The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 26, 2014
You can admire what he does without really enjoying it, and two hours and 46 minutes of pulverized architecture is a lot to endure. But in every Michael Bay movie there are at least a few moments of inspired, kinetic absurdity. Read full review
25
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthJun 26, 2014
If you've seen the previous "Transformers" you know what you're getting into, only this time, the director feels uninspired, more like he's punching a clock at the blockbuster factory, with even his flair for inventive setpieces mostly muted. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinJun 30, 2014
Transformers has ambition and attitude in its pores, and spectacle to spare. Bay shoots cars like they’re women, and people like they’re cars, and tosses around metal like it’s made from thin air. The film wasn’t meant to make you think, but it does. For better or worse, it’s cinema. Read full review
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TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJun 26, 2014
The battling, metallic heroes have never looked better, but Michael Bay's choppy, dissonant storytelling methods remain as audience-punishing as ever. Read full review
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TimeRichard CorlissJun 26, 2014
Nothing coheres. Movies usually try to come together at the end; this one falls apart. If that's Bay intention, then cinema has finally entered its Age of Extinction. Read full review
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Time OutJoshua RothkopfJun 30, 2014
You’re either awestruck, dumbstruck or just plain struck in the face. Read full review
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Total FilmKevin HarleyJan 9, 2015
When someone in Age Of Extinction carps about “crap sequels and remakes” in movies, you almost choke on the audacity. Read full review
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USA TodayScott BowlesJun 26, 2014
Deafening, deadening and about two hours too long, Extinction would mark the weakest installment yet of the 7-year-old Hasbro franchise — if the previous three movies were discernible from one another. Read full review
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VarietyMaggie LeeJun 22, 2014
It’s the robots — endowed here with character-rich physicality and almost human-scaled facial features — who give the film its emotional heft. Read full review
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Village VoiceAmy NicholsonJun 30, 2014
There isn't enough visual beauty to forgive the screenplay's ugliness, but Bay does brave a daring new standard in product placement. Read full review
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Washington PostStephanie MerryJun 26, 2014
The problem is quantity. There are so many action sequences related to so many story lines that midway through an epic fight, you might find yourself wondering what exactly started this particular battle and what the objective is other than destruction for the sake of it. Read full review
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