#Transformers4 When I went for a screening of Edge of Tomorrow with my friends, one of them, observing the low occupancy, requested the theater authorities to reduce the air conditioner cooling. Even if he had not done that, I’d have sat through the entire film without dozing off. I never remember having slept off in the theatre while watching a film. I know my mom has. It was during the screening of the Abhishek Bachchan – Rani Mukherjee starrer ‘Bunty aur Babli’; I remember grandma telling us how amazed she was to see my mom deep in slumber while the title song featuring Abhishek Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwaria Rai in a cameo played on in full blast. Transformers: Age of Extinction similarly had ear-splitting action sequences featuring Autobots, Decepticons and Metal Dinosaurs, and I have no idea who the f**k they were because I, after twenty one years of keeping wide awake in theatre, had my eyes wide shut during the second half of the film. I had had enough by the interval. All I can praise about this film is the impeccably designed world and the special effects. But those are like tertiary considerations for me. Did I find myself rooting for Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor, who’ve replaced always-in-trouble Shia LaBeouf and always-looking-fabulous Megan Fox? No. I haven’t seen any of the previous films in the Transformers franchise, so while I may not have the same affinity for Optimus Prime or the array of robots from the previous films that a Transformers fan would have, I think the new cast had to live up to the expectations both for Transformers and well as non-Transformers fans. And they don’t, but Michael Bay is going to come up with a sequel with these guys again so all I can say with certainty is I would certainly stay far far away from that film. Besides the stale acting, what bothers is that Bay never seems to have bonded as a filmmaker with the world he has created. There’s such a disconnect, as if everything’s done for the money. Every dialogue is made to sound like a punch line, which is particularly annoying because the scene then feels crude, and the characters seem to be mugging for the cameras more often than giving genuine reactions. Edge of Tomorrow had really funny moments, but they dialogues never felt incongruous with the scenes themselves. The film is bloated, ill-structured and exceptionally dull and fun-free. I’d rather spend two hours staring at the electrical transformer outside my house than watching a Transformers film.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:51:30 +0000
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