Yaeger’s discovery of a derelict Optimus Prime comes moments before his home is invaded by gun-toting military types and the discovery Tessa is dating Shane, a local rally car driver.
As the improbably-monickered Cade Yaeger, Mark Wahlberg cuts a far more relatable action hero, an overly-protective single father juggling money problems, aspirations of becoming a great inventor, and a beautiful, precocious daughter he’s terrified will make the same mistakes he did. Screenwriter Ehren Kruger puts a different spin on the central human relationship, replacing Shia LaBeouf’s adolescent dating antics with a more wholesome father-daughter dynamic. With unscrupulous scientist Joshua Joyce (Stanley Tucci) close to launching his own line of engineered Transformers, using materials farmed from wasted Decepticons, Cade, Tessa and her no-longer secret boyfriend Shane (Jack Reynor) must convince the surviving Autobots that the human race is still worth saving.Īfter a hugely successful trilogy of films based on Hasbro’s globally-loved toy range, Michael Bay returns once again to the Transformers series, this time boasting a whole new line-up of humans and a darker, more serious tone. When Cade (Mark Wahlberg) and Tessa Yeager (Nicola Peltz), a father-daughter team of Texas scrap dealers, stumble upon a deactivated Optimus Prime, they are soon drawn into this brutal clean-up operation, as well as into the path of a rogue robot bounty hunter known as Lockdown. Three years after the Decepticons laid waste to Chicago, shady politician Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer) has commissioned special ops units to scour the country for outlawed Transformers. Otherwise, it’s business as usual for the Autobots and Decepticons, which based on past performance means a huge box office performance everywhere.īay overcompensates for his flimsy narrative and characterisation with a bombastic and visually aggressive aesthetic. Bay’s trademark visual fireworks are as impressive as ever, while an all-new cast promises a new direction for what may become a second trilogy. The fourth instalment of Michael Bay’s big screen robot romp offers few surprises but an abundance of the series’ familiar tropes in another marathon-length, narratively vapid action spectacular.
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