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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

Transformers: Age of Extinction poster
Directed by
Michael Bay
Genre
comedy film, action film, science fiction film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 45m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 8,825 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An inventor teams up with a group of surviving alien robots to investigate why the government is hunting them. The robots and humans try to survive a series of attacks.

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What happens

Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and the fourth installment in the Transformers film series. Like its predecessor, the film was directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci, with Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver, and T.J. Miller in supporting roles. It does not feature the original human cast from the previous three films, instead introducing a new human cast as well as new Transformers, including the Dinobots. In the film, inventor Cade Yeager teams up with Optimus Prime and the surviving Autobots to investigate a manhunt involving Transformers for their hostility. The film was released in the United States on June 27, 2014, by Paramount Pictures. It received negative reviews from critics, criticizing its pacing, runtime, direction, plot, and dialogue. The film was a box office success, grossing $1.105 billion worldwide against a $210 million production budget, making it the highest-grossing film of 2014, the only film in 2014 to gross over $1 billion, and the tenth-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release. It was followed by a sequel, Transformers: The Last Knight in 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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