The repeated cliff-hanger moments of peril, which make the last hour particularly wearying, are as sincere as statements like “The age of the Autobots is over". This movie is longer than previous ones, less effective than the first two parts, an improvement on the third, and forgettable enough to make a fourth one possible. It’s engineering as much as film-making, and Bay has a real feel for complex and fluid computer-generated effects and sound design. The trick behind the success of Hollywood franchises like Transformers is that they deliver the same watch-erase-and-repeat spectacle in film after film, with minor tweaks in the plot and characters, and manage to make it look like a new experience each time. A chase involving Cade down a building block with some help from air-conditioning units is memorable, but it’s a rare standout scene in a movie that aims for erasure rather than retention. It’s actually a strain to remember exactly how Cade and Co. A Hong Kong Tourism Board hoarding gets tucked into one scene, but, as the saying goes, you need to let the right one in.īy the time Bay and his bots are done with Hong Kong, it’s just another ruin of mangled glass and steel, inseparable from Chicago, New York City or whichever international territory the film-makers will visit next. Transformers 4 has many superbly executed set pieces, but its showcase is a pre-climactic sequence that makes excellent use of Hong Kong’s architectural mix of tenements and high-rises. Did having to run between the giant legs of smart-talking robots and witness the semi-destruction of cities and heritage sites for three consecutive movies prompt his recent inability to keep it together?īay arrives to beauty only to unleash terror on it. LaBeouf has since gone on to appear in a range of roles, including Jerome, the one true love of Nymphomaniac’s lead character Joe, and become a tabloid hero for indulging in bizarre public behaviour. Nicola Peltz (left) plays Tessa, and Mark Wahlberg plays Cade Yeager in the movie.
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