![]() ![]() He's Cade, an adorable widower who grumpily objects to his teen daughter, Tessa (Nicola Peltz), dating local boy racer Shane (Jack Reynor). Dependable action lead Mark Wahlberg is now in the hot seat, playing an eccentric inventor. Megan Fox was dropped after the second, for comparing the director to Adolf Hitler troubled actor Shia LaBeouf has quit and British underwear model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has evidently not been invited back to develop the role she essayed in the previous, elliptically named film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. It is the fourth film in the franchise, but many recurring stars have gone awol. Stanley Tucci belatedly and unexpectedly emerges as its rather droll comic hero. Well, this is another overlong and over-the-top action extravaganza from Bay about the cars that turn into robots. ![]() He should check into the nearest Travelodge, with a set of 4圆 laminates of his new film's various gigantic toys, hardware, weaponry and black SUVs – and a bottle of baby oil. Perhaps Michael Bay should just get a room – with himself. ![]() A film about such an encounter, however, could wind up looking like techno-futurist porn, of a kind that JG Ballard might have found too upsetting to consider. Staggering out of the latest skull-splinteringly insensitive new Transformers film, I wondered if the only way to settle the future of cinema is to set up Michael Bay, its director, with James Cameron in a fistfight. ![]()
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