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I find it ironic that this film was shot in Serbia, a country whose existence was partly borne out of committing genocide.Peter (Michael Pena) is having nightmares that Earth is going to be invaded by aliens. His behaviour and actions make him seem odd and his wife Alice (Lizzy Caplan) is concerned about him.Then the aliens attack and everybody on Earth need to fight for their lives. Peter is shocked that one of the captured alien looks human. When Alice is seriously wounded, the captured alien offers to help fix her.This Netflix movie looks cheap, a large portion of the film is shot in the dark. The CGI looks dicey. It really is a made for television film.As a sci fi action film it below par, at least the screenplay has a twist to give the movie an Isaac Asimov type substance to it. It does not all add up but at least the second half is an improvement on the derivative first half of the movie.
EXTINCTION is a new-to-Netflix sci-fi thriller starring Michael Pena as a family man who finds himself striving to protect his family from an alien invasion. The first thing I thought when sticking this film on is that it was a complete copy of SKYLINE and I'm afraid that feeling never left me. However, EXTINCTION is a second-rate SKYLINE and lacks that low budget movie's suspense and excitement. This time around, the protagonist dreams of the impending alien invasion, scenes which merely pad out the first half an hour. Then some cliched action scenes take place, typically involving bad CGI explosions. Later, there's a big twist, but it's hardly surprising and it means that the last third of the film gets bogged down in exposition which is rather tiresome. Pena seems to work best in Hollywood when paired with other actors and he struggles to convince as the lead here, although it's amusing to see Lizzy Caplan battling invading aliens again after CLOVERFIELD.
Following the Battle of Chicago, humanity has come to fear both Autobots and Decepticons alike. With the aid of a Transformer mercenary named Lockdown, a CIA task-force operated by Harold Attinger begins hunting the remaining Transformers on Earth. Hunted by enemies that were once his allies, Optimus Prime loses faith in humanity and sends his forces into hiding. Now, five years later, struggling inventor and single-father Cade Yeager discovers a damaged Transformer, placing both himself and his daughter on a collision course with events that threaten the extinction of humankind itself.
Transformers: Age of Extinction was critically panned, and nearly universally condemned on the American front, receiving a rating of 18% positive critical reviews on RottenTomatoes.com, one percent lower than the final score for Revenge of the Fallen. Common criticisms leveled against it included its relatively long run time of 2 hours and 45 minutes, the disproportionately small amount of screen time the Dinobots got in relation to their relatively large exposure in promotional materials for the film, an over-reliance on product placement, obtuse humor (including jokes about knowing precisely when teenagers are old enough for adults to have sex with them), and the decision to set the final act in Hong Kong, which was perceived as a choice solely done to pander towards the Chinese audience for the film. However, the film received praise for its visual effects, action sequences, and the performances of some of the human actors, mainly Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, and Kelsey Grammer.[2] Despite any criticisms, the film was the worldwide top-grossing film for 2014, earning over a billion dollars.[3]
Like the previous films in the series, Industrial Light & Magic (with assistance from Atomic Fiction and Base FX) was employed to do the visual effects. Method Studios and Tippett Studios also contributed to the film's VFX production.
On June 26, 2011, thirteen days before the official theatrical release of Dark of the Moon, actor Tyrese Gibson gave an interview to Movieweb, in which he claimed that Michael Bay would not return for a fourth Transformers installment; instead, executive producer Steven Spielberg himself was allegedly interested in directing a sequel.[5] Ten days later, on June 26, 2011, still three days before the official theatrical release of Dark of the Moon, Michael Bay posted praise for actor Shia LaBeouf on his official forums, while at the same time expressing regret for leaving the Transformers franchise.[6] Another two days later, on June 28, 2011, LaBeouf confirmed that Dark of the Moon would definitely be his last Transformers film, as he didn't think there was "anywhere to take" his character of Sam Witwicky.[7]
Eight months later, on February 13, 2012, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura gave an interview during Toy Fair 2012, in which he confirmed that a fourth film was scheduled for a release in the Summer of 2014, Michael Bay would direct it after all, and that the movie would be a "reboot". He promptly clarified that it was actually a "hybrid", an "evolution" of the franchise that would be in continuity with the previous films, citing 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise as an example of what people should not expect from a fourth Transformers film. Di Bonaventura also confirmed that no casting discussions had taken place yet at that point, since there was no set story yet. However, there would be "a lot of new cast", and it was still uncertain at that point whether any of the previous cast members would return. The only characters that would "certainly" return would be Optimus Prime and Bumblebee.[8] A day later, on February 14, 2012, Bay himself and Paramount Pictures officially announced that Bay had indeed signed a deal to make a fourth Transformers film. The film's release date was stated alternatively as either June 27 or June 29, 2014.[9][10] That same day, Bay also confirmed that he and Spielberg were working on a "whole new re imagining[sic] of Transformers".[11] Two days later, on February 16, 2012, actor Josh Duhamel expressed his doubts that he, Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley or Tyrese Gibson would return for the fourth installment.[12]
Four months later, on June 6, 2012, Michael Bay confirmed in an interview centered around Transformers: The Ride that the fourth film would feature "some redesigns of the robots and an entirely new cast", and that it would be the last Transformers film he would direct.[13] A few weeks later, on June 21, 2012, Bay confirmed that the fourth film would feature "different human actors", but the film would not be strictly a "reboot", but rather take the story "in a new direction". While hinting that the story might venture into space for "a little bit", he still wanted to keep it "grounded".[14]
On March 20, 2013, the Michigan Film Office announced that the fourth film would return to Detroit.[30] Principal photography began on May 28, 2013, at Monument Valley.[31] Other shooting locations were the small towns of Lockhart, Taylor, Elgin and Pflugerville in Texas.[32] Shooting in Michigan involved two historic passenger steamboats, the SS Columbia and her sister ship, the SS Ste. Claire, which were docked in River Rouge awaiting restoration at the time being used as props.[33] While shooting in Detroit, Mark Wahlberg's children visited the set and were given small parts in the movie upon their father's request.[34]
Due to an increased focus of Hollywood studios trying to market its movies to the Chinese audience, parts of the movie were not only set in China, but actually filmed there. One of the shooting sites was Hong Kong. While there, the movie crew encountered the risks of shooting a movie in China firsthand when director Michael Bay was assaulted on the set by two locals demanding money; according to some sources, they were store owners that were not satisfied with the compensation they received for the inconvenience of having a movie filming nearby. Bay received minor injuries, but played the incident off on his blog. Both he and an official Paramount statement suggested that the assailants were under the influence of drugs.[35][36][37][38] A second extortion attempt occurred several days later, this time allegedly by several triad gang members. Although one of them was later arrested, no-one was injured this time around.[39][40] Once again, Bay played down the extortion attempts in an interview, noting that most of the locals were apologetic over what took place, and that he wanted to film more projects in Hong Kong.[41]
Age of Extinction continues the collaboration with General Motors. Earlier in the film, Bumblebee chooses a customized 1967 Chevrolet Camaro SS as his disguise when hiding from Cemetery Wind, whereas later on, he upgrades to the newest model, a 2014 Camaro concept car. (The production crew was actually accused of ripping off a one-of-a-kind custom for the 1967 version.[44]) Furthermore, new addition Crosshairs's alternate mode is a 2014 Chevrolet C7 Corvette Stingray, and recurring character Ratchet briefly appears at the beginning of the movie and transforms into his Hummer H2 ambulance mode (in the color scheme from Dark of the Moon) before being killed at the hands of Cemetery Wind and Lockdown. 2ff7e9595c
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