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那一场轰动全人类的“芝加哥决战”的四年后，智能机器人汽车人与霸天虎已然从地球上销声匿迹，存活下来的人类也在大战之后开始了新生。凯德·耶格尔(马克·沃尔伯格饰)虽然失去了爱人，却有心爱的女儿特莎·耶格尔(妮可拉·佩尔茨饰)相伴。但愈发成熟的爱女却和老爸越来越难相处，甚至背着老爸寻找自己的情感寄托。而多年来执着于“旧货”的凯德，竟无意中“收留”了沉睡中的擎天柱。随着邪恶势力的再次临近，人类和他们曾经的盟友汽车人的平静日子终于再次被打破，而这一次不可避免的大战，显然比以往来得更加凶猛，霸天虎，以及来自古老的变形金刚阵营的威胁，正大踏步向着这颗渺小的星球逼近。

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One important criterion we Chinese use to evaluate blockbusters is something called a pee-point. It describes the part of a movie where nothing exciting happens and therefore the viewers could safety embark on a journey to the lavatory without missing anything significant. Often some nice amateur critics online wouldkindly pinpoint these pee-points so other viewers would know when to visit the loo. And of course, the more pee-points there are in a film, the worse it is considered to be.

"Transformers: Age of Extinction" have no pee-points for first time viewers: all viewers should be willingto exercise control of their bladders in anticipation of exciting moments. But for those who care to look back after 166 minutes of boredom, they'll regret having endured so many pee-points and wonder what's happened to the spectacles promised in the trailer.

Indeed, there is a marked downgrade in a film which is supposed to be all about spectacles. Instead of giant machines smashing at each other, viewers get to see tiny, paranoid humans hunting down friendly Autobots. It can be quite an impressive scene to see a swarm of ants bringing down a giant elephant, but that sensation is missing in Michael Bay's latest outing.

According to a popular joke about his fiasco, Michael Bay had started this film with a one-page story on his left hand, and a voluminous manual on the right hand which outlined all the products and faces that absolutely have to appear in the epically long film. With all due respect for the storywriter Ehren Kruger, and whoever and whatever must appear in the movie, I think the obsession with product placement destroyed every possibility for "Age of Extinction" to develop a decent story.

The viewers are fully aware that they are buying the tickets for a sensational experience, not a seriouslyintriguing story, but nonetheless the mediocre sensations should at least make some sense, "Age of Extinction" hardly makes any sense.

The last part of the film is set in China and is particularly unnecessary. This shift of setting may help Paramount squeeze out more shares of the box office in China, but it also creates a dent in other markets.I don't know the math behind it, but I certainly hope Michael Bay have worked that out before turning on the cameras.

Besides, the move also fuels the egocentric hallucinations on some part of Chinese critics who have begin to entertain the idea that even Hollywood is trying to lick our boots. That's exactly what is needed to stifle China's meagre creative strength in the movie industry.

The only improvement about "Transformers: Age of Extinction" is: the viewers could finally distinguish onegiant machine from another, but that's probably because there is a much smaller number of them.

Michael Bay's effort to reduce cost and boost profit have yielded an awfully long commercial in IMAX 3D, moviegoers and companies may continue paying for its sequel, I will not be part of that again when it returns in 2016.

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