Optimus Prime is back. This time, he’s teaming up with Mark Wahlberg instead of Shia LaBeouf, so he has that working for him. Now that we reflect, Shia wasn’t a terrible fit, it’s just they made him look less…manish…with his parents getting in the way.
The story begins with Mark Wahlberg discovering a Transformer (although he doesn’t know it at first). Then some government agency comes in and tells him to fork it over. Queue basic plot structure from there with Optimus Prime going postal on a foreign species, and you have Age of Extinction. As far as our other trailer previews go, this one is in the middle, but not in the happy Jimmy Eat World sense.
It’s not that we’re not excited; we are. It’s just that we were hoping for more of a dark element. More of an actual loss taking place. Christian Bale, as Batman, lost Rachel. Not only did we not see that coming (honestly), we were quite surprised to know that Nolan would kill off a main character. We don’t get that feeling in this installment.
What we expect: 2 hours of viewing split evenly between us wanting to see a fight and us not seeing a fight.
What we hope: Optimus Prime death match worthy of an “Optimus Prime death match.”
New ability expected: gun-from-the-throat.
New ability hoped for: Scorpion palm-spear a la Mortal Kombat.
When we will see it: matinee.
Where we will see it: away from the kiddos.