Transformers 4

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Rating 8 out of 10

I saw the first three Transformers movies.  It's not that I didn't like them as much as didn't completely get them.  Having missed out on the Transformers cartoon stage I was never able to tell the good robots from the bad ones.  When they would start fighting I would never remember which one I was supposed to be cheering for. Action was always pretty good and effects first rate.

I really had no plan to see the latest Transformers movie.  I do like Mark Wahlberg so I thought I would give it a try.  In my opinion I feel this is the best of the lot.

I don't remember how Transformers 3 ended.  Here we start off in the future.  Years after a battle in Chicago where the robots went nuts and while we defeated them much of Chicago was destroyed.  Transformers for some reason are outlawed and being hunted down by the CIA.

Wahlberg plays a hapless inventor on the verge of losing his house that he and his super hot blonde daughter (newcomer Nicola Peltz) live in.  He comes across a beat up old big truck that he buys to fix up and sell for a profit.  That truck turns out to be the missing Optimus Prime.  That's when their trouble starts.

Of course to no ones surprise the world is on the verge of being destroyed by the evil robots and the only hope is the cars that turn into robots with the help of Wahlberg and his daughter.  Intricate plots are not the selling point to these movies.

I was pleasantly surprised and definitely entertained.  I thought this was by far the best of the four Transformers movie.  Maybe at nearly three hours run time it was maybe thirty minutes longer than it needed to be.  Still if you liked any of the first three movies I think you will be happy with this one.