Nerds That Geek Movie Review - 'Transformers: Age of Extinction'

​Written by Scott Edwards

Many people have a hard time making ends meet, even in this day and age. As prices continue to skyrocket on everyday items, the average wages cannot keep up forcing people to have more than one job. As this does not seem to be changing in the near future, hopefully someone is keeping their eyes on this to help the country from going into another recession. Times can be tough and there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, but you have to get there first.
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Cade Yeager may not be happy with his situation, but there is nothing he can do about it. Being an inventor has left him and his daughter Tessa in the poor house, but Cade is never down and out, as he has plenty of ideas that could make the family some money. Being the local repair man in town gives Cade plenty to do as well and with a couple bucks coming in here and there, he knows that things will turn around. When checking out the local junkyard, Cade sees an old beat up truck that could be a good payday for him if he is able to get it running. Borrowing a couple bucks from his friend and employee Lucas, the truck makes it home with him, but little does he know what he has really found.

Cemetery Wind, formally the NEST commandos now have a new purpose, to hunt down and kill all of the Decepticons with no mercy, but they have gone beyond that, they are hunting every Cybertronian that they can find. Since the partnership with the Autobots had come to an end after the battle of Chicago, Harold Attinger has given the kill order to all robots that are not of this planet. Making a deal with Lockdown to obtain the Seed once he is able to collect his bounty on Optimus Prime, Attinger will stop at nothing to rid the planet of all of the alien robots he can find. Sending all of the destroyed robots to KSI to experiment on, a new race of transformers will be created to defend the planet from any further threats, but this team will be controlled by the humans, the way it should be.

Removing a missile from his old broken down truck, Cade sees that he has discovered a transformer. As Optimus Prime wakes up, he wants nothing to do with the humans since they have turned on the Autobots and are trying to eradicate the race. Being in very bad condition from his last run in with Lockdown, Optimus is in need of repairs and Cade offers his services. But before he is able to make it too far, Cemetery Wind comes rolling onto his farm and discovers the inventor is hiding the alien. No longer sticking to his rules of not harming humans, Optimus is forced to jump into action to protect his new friends from these government thugs. Being put on the run, Cade, Tessa and her boyfriend Shane take to the road to find out who is behind these hits on the Autobots, while Optimus needs to find whomever is still alive from his group to take action against Attinger and his minions.

I am actually surprised that people did not like this movie more, as I was told that it was not worth watching. I rather enjoyed it even though it did feel like it ran a bit long. I like how the history of the Earth keeps changing in the series and every time you look, it goes further back. Now there is a race called the Creators that wants all of its Knights back and the bad ass Lockdown is able to deliver on their wishes. The hatred towards the all of the transformers may have come from the battle of Chicago, but Attinger is fueling it to be much more. With his own plans of what to do to defend Earth, it still comes down to money for him, which makes him not an overall bad guy, just human, I like that. With every character having the option to redeem themselves, I was impressed how many were willing to do so in this film and I also liked that the Dinobots finally made an appearance, but was upset that they did not have any lines, maybe that will change in the next one since they were just woken up after countless years of being on board Lockdown’s ship. Well, I guess there will be another movie coming out next year, so keep your eyes open for The Last Knight. Now I have to find something else with robots in it to keep me from having withdrawals from the Transformers series.

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