Michael Bay seems eager to want to blow everything up. As if the introduction of the characters, the conflict, and the film itself were an excuse to film explosions and increasingly bigger robots.m [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 12, 2023

Preferable to syphilis.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 6, 2023

It goes to show what a little focus and restraint (and I do emphasize “a little”) can do.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2023

Bay’s garbled action, Kruger’s scattershot writing, dull humans, underdeveloped robots—these are the same issues that have plagued Transformers movies since the start.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 5, 2022

Let's hope this remains the longest film with a Transformer in it. After all, 165 minutes is an awfully long time during which to watch Michael Bay run in place, bristling against diminishment of his traditional tactility in favor of over-digitized mush.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 29, 2022

Transformers: Age of Extinction picks up five years after 2011's Dark of the Moon left off but Shia LaBeouf and the original trilogy's cast are nowhere to be found. Heck, LaBeouf's Sam Witwicky isn't even mentioned by name

| Jan 22, 2022

No one can accuse Bay of skimping on... well anything.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2021

All hype and no hope. Avoid.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 20, 2020

An egregious amount of attention is again afforded to the special effects, but the moments in between grow correspondingly less intelligent.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 4, 2020

For the better part of the film's 165-minute running time we get Crash. Bang. Crash. Bang. Bludgeon. Crash. Bang. Bludgeon. Bang. Crash.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

You would think that after three films, Bay would find some groove with this material. If anything, he's regressed.

| Original Score: D | Jul 20, 2020

Bay introduces more and more of everything as if he's deliberately competing against his previous Transformers film.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 15, 2020

If you are determined to see Transformers: The Age of Extinction, here are some suggestions: Bring earplugs, medication for what may be your first experience with Restless Leg Syndrome, and a pre-1960s misogyny.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 2, 2019

I'm not sure if that even qualifies it as a film as I understand the definition. It's actually little more than feature-length commercial.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 5, 2019

Too many minutes, too many characters, not enough story. The VFX, however, are a triumph.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2019

Because the screen is now so incredibly saturated with CGI, we simply don't believe for a single second that anything that happens in front of us is anything other than millions of engineered pixels jostling together for our ill-deserved attention.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 2, 2019

The script, written by Ehren Kruger, contains neither coherent narrative nor character development, and the dialogue is laughable for all the wrong reasons.

| Mar 5, 2019

Rather than focusing on the meat of the film, re: the ginormous robots that are awesome, the film spends an absurdly long time setting up its character development for the humans.

| Jan 30, 2019

That ship sailed four movies ago, but somewhere inside Age of Extinction, there exists the schlocky promise of that kind of entertainment. So frustrating then, to have to sit through all the rest of it.

| Original Score: C | Jan 18, 2019

Transformers: Age of Extinction has a lot of good stuff. It's just that, in order to get to it, you have to sit through the rest of a movie that could have been made much tighter without sacrificing quality or coherence.

| Original Score: B | Jan 12, 2019