Transformers 4 review

Mr Bay is at it again, Transformers 4 is now out in theaters and looks to bring in millions of dollars just like his previous three films. The thing with Bay is I feel like most people don't like him and give his films a bad rep but does he deserve it?

Its possible, it depends on how you like your movies really, With transformers if you are looking for a bigger than life, blow crap up and just straight shinny fast pace action than you might be someone who enjoys what Bay has given us with Transformers.

As the films have come and gone so has the story and cast, Transformers 4 is not a reboot as some had expected but still a sequel to the other three films. They have to a point updated the cast and characters from the previous films tho.

Shia is no more and our lead is now a Dad trying to keep his daughter on a straight line to a better life than he had, Mark Whalburg is not someone i enjoy by any means. Most of my friends see a film with Marky Mark in it and they already know how my feelings will be towards him.

But this time around i really can't blame him, He never really botherd me in this, Nor did his daughter or any of the human characters, I felt as if they did TRY to make this more human based and give it more of a soul than the previous films(Which i believe they made note of that within the film its self as well) but i just found myself bored that the focus was on these characters i just can't get into.

Kelsey Grammar plays the CIA Agent who's hunting down the Autobots and i did think he played a pretty cool bad guy and his acting was fine and it might have been some of the better in the film. But the stand out for me is Stanley TUcci s i enjoy anything he is in. I felt as if they tried to model him a little bit after Steve Jobs but maybe thats the geek in me. He had his serious side but transformed into the comedy character pretty fast, still enjoyable.

But besides them i feel like we had some characters pop in and out and i didn't really catch names besides maybe Shane played by Jack Reynor because he is our new boy toy i guess?

As for the transformers, they have gone into hiding since the events of the third film, which spoilers for the third film... All the Decepticons are dead. So we move on from them in this film which some might enjoy but others not so much, I don't think it bugged me that we had a transformers movie without them but the fact that what we are given is just basically the evil humans for some reason just bored me.

Humans building new transformers to better their world makes sense and is cool on paper but i feel like it just didn't work out here. In one scene Stanleys character says something that he had 50 prototypes or something along that line, well in the end battle it just dragged on with what felt like 100's of them.

Megatron is of course mentioned and they did acknowledge him as Galvatron which was nice but he has two scenes or so and feel as if they built him just to make sure he is in their pocket for the next film.

Besides for Galavtron i also feel like we didn't catch character names either which might not be a big deal to some but it just shows the lack of character given. Not to mention the few seconds of the Dinobots who never talk or anything and are just pets. But maybe they will be in the next film as well?

As my review is doing the movie just dragged on, it started with the spaceship scene and from that point on i feel as if i lost interest in the film. The ship scene started out fine because Lockdown is our main bad guy and he has his collection on board which means Grimlock so thats very awesome.  But the next half hour or so in the dark blah spaceship with no name robots and dog things chasing our cast was just a bore to me.

The movie still had its fun set pieces after that with the battle in china but most of this was also shown on the previews but seeing it in full on eye melting pace was nice. its super shinny and things blow up which is what we want from summer movies.

But I still felt bored, I will not say i hated the movie but at the same time i don't remember the last time i just felt so blah after watching a movie.

It just seemed so tossed together and jumping around from character to character, talk about this and that and then move on. I do feel as if they tried to build towards a new series? or more films anyways.

I feel as if I'm having a hard time reviewing this movie, What was your take? Did you hate it? Love it? or felt just kinda blah like me?