LiamKerrington
Jul 23rd, 2014, 09:20 AM
Hi.
I keep it short:
This movie is even worse then Transformers III, which was a pain in the arse from the first through the last minute of the movie.
Why is T IV even worse?
SPOILER WARNING!
a) Story: After T III the CIA becomes an uncontrollable entity and establishes a special ops team, which is out and about to hunt down ALL alien robots - the remaining Decepticons as well as and especially the Autobots. They cooperate with one Super-Robot from space, which himself searches for all those major robots, who were sent through space in order to make whatever the Creator wanted; and Optimus Prime (leader of the Autobots) is one major target. This Super Robot cooperates with the CIA, and the CIA in return cooperates with the company KSI, which deconstructs destroyed transformers in order to get a patent on their own roboters and in order to procude a robot-army for the USA. (If any of this makes sense to you, you are blessed; for me this story already makes no sense at all.)
The major protagonists are a father, his daughter, and the daughter's boyfriend. The father is a unlucky inventor and grease-monkey. One day he buys an old truck, which is Optimus Prime, who is nearly dead. The father starts repairing this robot, and all of a sudden the CIA special ops shows up, because the one employee from the father has called them in order to get 25 thousand bucks. Then all hell breaks loose, but Optimus Prime, the father, daughter, and friend get away and reunite with the last four Autobots on US soil (or the world, as it seems).
They try to find out, what's going on, and the father was able to capture a small drone from the KSI; he has analyzed the device and was able to learn enough that he, his daughter, and her friend would be able to sneak into the high security R&D facility of KSI. So they do.
There they learn that KSI was able to "analyze" the DNA of the transformers and that they have started building prototypes, which they wanted to remote-control any time they wished to. Then father, daughter, and friend are recognized, and all hell breaks loose. Optimus Prime and his Autobots break into the facility in order to save their new friends. They get out of the place, but are being chased by the CIA special ops, the new protopy Galvatron (which is the re-born Megathron from the other movies, which is funny, 'cause Megathron survived T III), as well as this Super Robot. The chase ends with Optimus Prime captured and brought into the spaceship of the Super Robot.
In exchange for the support the Super Robot gives the CIA agents a special device - a life-destroying bomb which transforms living matter into transformium, the metal, which is the basis of any Transformer -, which again is supposed to be brought to KSI for further development. Meanwhile the Autobots and the three protagonists sneak into the spaceship in order to save Optimus Prime. And they are successfull about it. Besides that they "rescue" a whole bunch of other Transformers from other places, which are nastier, more evil etc than anything else.
They learn that KSI is on its way to China, in order to display Galvatron and the other prototypes, because they want to start mass-production with the help of the Chinese economy. Here the father calls the lead designer and inventor from KSI and warns him, that Galvatron is not remote controlled, but instead a huge danger; and the father appeals to the heart of the lead designer that he as an inventer himself knows about the dangers, just because. And the father is able to convince him.
All of a sudden Galvatron breaks free. The Super Robot in his space ship realizes that Optimus Prime is gone. And then everyones starting to hunt everyone in this huge Chinese city - Michael Bay-ish, what else to say, because somewhat everyone wants this special bomb. During this series of explosions and CGI Optimus Prime battles the other freed transformers and convinces them to join him - the Dinobots are born. And know things just happen ...
In the end Galvatron was able to flee the place, the Super Robot is dead, the Dinobots walk away, the remaining Autobots are meant to protect father, daughter, friend, and Optimus Prime leaves Earth to visit the Creators in order to tell them that Earth is to be spared.
Ok. Sounds like a funny story?
Maybe. I see a lot of potential in it, but Michael Bay and the authors of the script did a bad job. Because this "summary" is not only the essence of it; I left out very few details. There is not a lot more to it. And that's bad.
b) Dialogue:
Each and everyone were better off, if not a single word was spoken. The dialoges want to make sense, but they don't. They have no spirit and no soul, they are lifeless and often even pointless. In some scenes you wonder why anyone is talking anyway. And very often there are meant to be cool quotes, but they are from that. It's plain stupid, and it hurts.
c) CGI
When I watch a movie with robots transforming in whatever piece of device, I would like to see and somewhat "understand" the transformation; the transformation is meant to make sense. In T IV the CGI did only show blurs of moving things, and all of a sudden there was a car, a helicopter, a gun, or a robot. The transformation made no sense at all. Most of the combat- or action-CGI was blurry, mindless, just so much over the top, that I felt like: "What am I supposed to look at". Madness drove the guys who developed those CGI.
Combined with Michael Bay explosions - and there were many in this movie - the nearly 3 hours of this movie were nothing more than a huge and long series of mind-shattering, colorful, pointless picture-noise.
I never would have thought that it was possible to create an even worse movie than Terminator IV; Transformers IV did it.
Best wishes!
Liam
I keep it short:
This movie is even worse then Transformers III, which was a pain in the arse from the first through the last minute of the movie.
Why is T IV even worse?
SPOILER WARNING!
a) Story: After T III the CIA becomes an uncontrollable entity and establishes a special ops team, which is out and about to hunt down ALL alien robots - the remaining Decepticons as well as and especially the Autobots. They cooperate with one Super-Robot from space, which himself searches for all those major robots, who were sent through space in order to make whatever the Creator wanted; and Optimus Prime (leader of the Autobots) is one major target. This Super Robot cooperates with the CIA, and the CIA in return cooperates with the company KSI, which deconstructs destroyed transformers in order to get a patent on their own roboters and in order to procude a robot-army for the USA. (If any of this makes sense to you, you are blessed; for me this story already makes no sense at all.)
The major protagonists are a father, his daughter, and the daughter's boyfriend. The father is a unlucky inventor and grease-monkey. One day he buys an old truck, which is Optimus Prime, who is nearly dead. The father starts repairing this robot, and all of a sudden the CIA special ops shows up, because the one employee from the father has called them in order to get 25 thousand bucks. Then all hell breaks loose, but Optimus Prime, the father, daughter, and friend get away and reunite with the last four Autobots on US soil (or the world, as it seems).
They try to find out, what's going on, and the father was able to capture a small drone from the KSI; he has analyzed the device and was able to learn enough that he, his daughter, and her friend would be able to sneak into the high security R&D facility of KSI. So they do.
There they learn that KSI was able to "analyze" the DNA of the transformers and that they have started building prototypes, which they wanted to remote-control any time they wished to. Then father, daughter, and friend are recognized, and all hell breaks loose. Optimus Prime and his Autobots break into the facility in order to save their new friends. They get out of the place, but are being chased by the CIA special ops, the new protopy Galvatron (which is the re-born Megathron from the other movies, which is funny, 'cause Megathron survived T III), as well as this Super Robot. The chase ends with Optimus Prime captured and brought into the spaceship of the Super Robot.
In exchange for the support the Super Robot gives the CIA agents a special device - a life-destroying bomb which transforms living matter into transformium, the metal, which is the basis of any Transformer -, which again is supposed to be brought to KSI for further development. Meanwhile the Autobots and the three protagonists sneak into the spaceship in order to save Optimus Prime. And they are successfull about it. Besides that they "rescue" a whole bunch of other Transformers from other places, which are nastier, more evil etc than anything else.
They learn that KSI is on its way to China, in order to display Galvatron and the other prototypes, because they want to start mass-production with the help of the Chinese economy. Here the father calls the lead designer and inventor from KSI and warns him, that Galvatron is not remote controlled, but instead a huge danger; and the father appeals to the heart of the lead designer that he as an inventer himself knows about the dangers, just because. And the father is able to convince him.
All of a sudden Galvatron breaks free. The Super Robot in his space ship realizes that Optimus Prime is gone. And then everyones starting to hunt everyone in this huge Chinese city - Michael Bay-ish, what else to say, because somewhat everyone wants this special bomb. During this series of explosions and CGI Optimus Prime battles the other freed transformers and convinces them to join him - the Dinobots are born. And know things just happen ...
In the end Galvatron was able to flee the place, the Super Robot is dead, the Dinobots walk away, the remaining Autobots are meant to protect father, daughter, friend, and Optimus Prime leaves Earth to visit the Creators in order to tell them that Earth is to be spared.
Ok. Sounds like a funny story?
Maybe. I see a lot of potential in it, but Michael Bay and the authors of the script did a bad job. Because this "summary" is not only the essence of it; I left out very few details. There is not a lot more to it. And that's bad.
b) Dialogue:
Each and everyone were better off, if not a single word was spoken. The dialoges want to make sense, but they don't. They have no spirit and no soul, they are lifeless and often even pointless. In some scenes you wonder why anyone is talking anyway. And very often there are meant to be cool quotes, but they are from that. It's plain stupid, and it hurts.
c) CGI
When I watch a movie with robots transforming in whatever piece of device, I would like to see and somewhat "understand" the transformation; the transformation is meant to make sense. In T IV the CGI did only show blurs of moving things, and all of a sudden there was a car, a helicopter, a gun, or a robot. The transformation made no sense at all. Most of the combat- or action-CGI was blurry, mindless, just so much over the top, that I felt like: "What am I supposed to look at". Madness drove the guys who developed those CGI.
Combined with Michael Bay explosions - and there were many in this movie - the nearly 3 hours of this movie were nothing more than a huge and long series of mind-shattering, colorful, pointless picture-noise.
I never would have thought that it was possible to create an even worse movie than Terminator IV; Transformers IV did it.
Best wishes!
Liam