Transformers: Age of Extinction

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 is directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles, Bingbing Li, Titus Welliver and T.J. Miller.

It does not feature the original human cast from the previous three films, and instead introduces a new human cast and many new Transformers, including the Dinobots.

The film is set five years after Dark of the Moon, struggling inventor Cade Yeager and his daughter Tessa must join forces with Optimus Prime and the Autobots against the ruthless bounty hunter Lockdown and a new breed of man-made Transformers, as they battle to uncover a powerful Cybertronian artifact and save Earth from extinction.

It was released in the United States on June 27, 2014, by Paramount Pictures. The film received generally negative reviews from critics for its runtime and direction, and grossed over $1.

104 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 Transformers: The Last Knight in 2017.

In the present day, geologist Darcy Tirrel excavates the Transformium for K.S.I. Industries, who use it to build Transformer drones.

Five years later, despite the efforts after the Battle of Chicago, humans view Transformers as hostile and terminate all joint operations with them.

Though the public believes that the Autobots were granted sanctuary, they are hunted down by a rogue CIA black ops division, Cemetery Wind, led by opportunistic, rogue intelligence operative Harold Attinger, who believes that all Transformers are dangerous and must be destroyed.

Lockdown, a Cybertronian assassin and bounty hunter working for the Creators, is tasked to find Optimus Prime. In exchange, he gives Attinger a Seed if his division manages to capture Optimus.

Lockdown locates and kills Ratchet when he refuses to give up Optimus’s location. Optimus, badly damaged in Mexico City, hides in Texas and is discovered by Cade Yeager, a financially struggling inventor and a single father.

While his teenage daughter Tessa and business partner Lucas Flannery encourage him to turn Optimus over to the authorities, Cade instead fixes Optimus.

Hoping to collect an advertised reward, Lucas alerts the authorities, and James Savoy, Attinger’s field commanding operative, attacks the Yeager farm, but Optimus, and Tessa’s secret boyfriend, Irish rally car driver Shane Dyson, rescue the family.

During the pursuit, Lucas is killed by one of Lockdown’s grenades. Optimus summons the surviving Autobots – Bumblebee, Hound, Drift, and Crosshairs. Using a stolen CIA drone, Cade discovers K.S.I.

’s involvement with Cemetery Wind and the attacks on the Autobots. Infiltrating K.S.I.’s headquarters in Chicago, Cade discovers the dead Autobots and Decepticons being melted down to make Transformer drones. The K.S.I.

CEO, Joshua Joyce, is in league with Attinger to revolutionize global defenses and improve human society using the Seed to make more Transformium.

He has also used the captured Brains and Megatron’s head to create prototype Transformer soldiers, Galvatron and Stinger.

The Autobots storm the building and destroy the laboratory, but they soon leave after Joshua declares that they don’t need them anymore. Attinger forces Joshua to deploy Galvatron and Stinger to capture the Autobots.

During the battle, Galvatron’s behavior becomes erratic. As Galvatron battles Optimus, he gets autonomously freed from control. Suddenly, Lockdown arrives and abducts both Optimus and Tessa while Galvatron retreats.

While Lockdown’s large prison spacecraft hovers over Chicago to hand over the Seed, Cade, Shane, and the Autobots sneak on board to rescue Optimus and Tessa.

They hijack a smaller ship, containing other Transformers called the Dinobots, just before Lockdown leaves Earth.

The Autobots learn that Galvatron is Megatron reincarnated, plotting to use the Seed and the Transformer drones to conquer the world, and that KSI plans to use the Seed in the Mongolian desert to create vast amounts of usable Transformium.

Cade informs Joshua, who agrees to hand over the Seed with help from Darcy and his Chinese business associate Su Yueming. Galvatron reactivates himself and takes control of the drones.

A battle follows in Hong Kong between the Autobots, Cemetery Wind, and the drones.

During the fight, Cade sends Savoy plummeting to his death while Optimus frees the Dinobots and wins their allegiance through trial by combat, becoming essential to the Autobots’ victory.

Lockdown returns to recapture Optimus and the Dinobots, using a large magnet to cause destruction. After disabling the magnet, Optimus fights Lockdown.

In the ensuing duel, Optimus kills Attinger to save Cade, but the distraction allows Lockdown to pin Optimus down with his sword.

Cade ends up fighting Lockdown one-on-one while Tessa and Shane use a tow truck to free Optimus, who kills Lockdown before defeating the remaining drones with Lockdown’s grenades. Galvatron retreats, vowing to return.

Optimus asks the Autobots to protect the Yeagers while Joshua offers to help them build a new home, before flying away into space with the Seed, sending a message to the Creators that he is coming for them.