Last week, my wife and I watched the latest Transformers movie. We were able to get free tickets for the premier showing from my mother in law. The tickets were from Smart Infinity. Smart held a premiere showing for its valued subscribers in Cebu. They booked the IMAX theater in SM City Cebu.
The Transformers Age of Extinction was show in 3D and I really had a grand time. The plot was not really complicated. The human became robophobic after what happened in the past Transformer movie and the CIA had allied with Lockdown to eliminate the remaining alien threat. Mark Wahlberg plays as Cody Yaeger, a broke inventor who is struggling to pay mortgage and he is the father of a very hot teenager named Tessa. The transformer movies have been known for featuring some pretty hot babes and it is the turn of Nicola Peltz to cause some drool.
Cody was able to buy a scrap truck that happens to be Optimus Prime. Trouble started when he and his assistant discovered that they actually have a Transformer which could fetch a huge sum of dough. The CIA and Lockdown attacked their place causing Optimus to reveal himself. They were able to escape the onslaught with the help of Tessa Yaeger's boyfriend. The assistant died after failing to escape from Lockdown's very powerful grenade. The CIA are now on their tails and they will try to kill Cody many times in the flick.
Because Cody hacked into one of the CIA's drones, the group were able to discover the plot of the CIA. Optimus was able to contact the remaining Autobots which includes kid favorite Bumblebee and they planned to attack KSI, a defense company that are making Transformer-clones. The group was able to create havoc in the KSI facility but left when Joshua Joyce, KSI head, told Optimus that humans do not need Autobots because they can create one on their own.
KSI activated Galvatron and Stinger to pursue the group. Galvatron (Megatron-reincarnation) fought with Optimus and spoke which infuriated Joyce. Lockdown eventually arrived and captured Optimus and Tessa also ended up in Lockdown's ship when she was stuck in the car that was also brought to the huge spaceship. Lockdown gave humans "the seed" which will make vast track of lands into transformium.
Cody and Shane, Tessa's bf, were able to save Optimus and Tessa with the help of the Autobots. Brains who escaped the KSI facility informed Optimus that Galvatron is actually Megatron. Yaeger was able to talk some sense to Joyce and Joyce betrayed the CIA by not pursuing his plan to use the seed. Galvatron got activated and controlled all the human made robots.
The final battle was in China when the group wanted to get the Seed from Joyce only to have their ship shot down by one of Galvatron's minions. The group was divided into two with the humans struggling to defend against the countless Transformer clones. Lockdown was also own its way to reclaim his prisoners. The tied somehow turned to the Autobots favor when Optimus Prime was able to convince the Dinobots to fight on their side. The robots of Galvatron were defeated, Galvatron retreated, and Lockdown was destroyed. Optimus set free the Dinobots before going to space and sending a message to the Creators that he is coming to them.
Well, as a child that grew up watching the animated versions it was fun enough. It was not the best but I still enjoyed the movie. I would have watched it even if was not given those free tickets. I am sure many kids would enjoy while many of the non-fans will find it mediocre. No regrets on my part and I would even recommend the movie to kids my age hehehe. ;)
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| After the movie, we were able to have photos with "Bumblebee". |
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