It’s really Optimus Prime’s story this time around.Īs for the non-robot cast…look, nobody goes to see a Transformersmovie for them, right? They are, at best, necessary evils that get us from giant robot battle to giant robot battle, and allow the filmmakers to provide the audience with some thin pretense that there’s a real story to be told. Bumblebee is here, too, but not in as central a role as previous movies. The rest of Optimus’ team this time around are a colorful assortment that includes Hound (John Goodman), Drift (Ken Watanabe), and Crosshairs (John DiMaggio).

That’s all gleefully swept away before the third act, mind you, but compared to the coming-of-age story of the first movie, the failed sex comedy of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and whatever it was that the humans were supposed to care about in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, this is weighty stuff.Īnyway, it’s Lockdown’s successful hunting skills that have driven the Autobots into hiding and led to Optimus Prime’s eventual discovery by a humble Texas inventor (Mark Wahlberg) and his family. foreign and domestic policy aside, for some of the first act, it really does appear that Transformers 4 is trying to make a point.

The obvious parallels with post-9/11 U.S.

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