Transformers Age of Extinction – Early Reviews!

Transformers-Age-of-Extinction-Title-Card

What are the first viewers saying who went to see the latest installment in the Transformers Live action movie franchise, ‘Transformers Age of Extinction‘? We have an early review for you below. Check it out, and if you have seen it, feel free to share your thoughts with us as well after the JUMP!

(Source: newsarama)

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: Transformers: Age of Extinction has, without a doubt, the worst dialogue I’ve ever heard in any movie I’ve ever seen – and that includes purposely campy B-movies. The dialogue is more a collection of phrases, a parody of what should actually be said in dramatic situations, or just the same one-liner (“I’m coming for you” is uttered by no less than four characters in this film) on repeat to the backdrop of a pseudo-rock soundtrack by Imagine Dragons and explosions as giant robots throw humans 200 ft into the air.

If you cannot get past the dialogue, just plain don’t see this movie. If you cut the action out, and watched this movie with nothing but the “dramatic tension,” you’d have about an hour of just painfully and laughably bad words.

So yeah, the script is bad, awful, other synonyms, but here’s the thing – this movie is without a doubt the closest translation of the 80s cartoon being brought to life yet, and that nostalgia, complete with (as they’re lovingly referred to in my household) Motherf***ing Dinobots! makes Transformers: Age of Extinction still watchable, and even enjoyable, if you can just turn off your brain and look at the pretty pictures.

It’s the most damning positive statement ever made about a movie, to be sure: “Yeah, this movie’s not so bad if not for every word spoken in it.” The actors in the film, despite the script

          
 
 
  

Related posts

Leave a Comment