


Bumblebee is here, too, but not in as central a role as previous movies. The rest of Optimus’ team this time around are a colorful assortment that includes Hound (John Goodman), Drift (Ken Watanabe), and Crosshairs (John DiMaggio). That’s all gleefully swept away before the third act, mind you, but compared to the coming-of-age story of the first movie, the failed sex comedy of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and whatever it was that the humans were supposed to care about in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, this is weighty stuff.Īnyway, it’s Lockdown’s successful hunting skills that have driven the Autobots into hiding and led to Optimus Prime’s eventual discovery by a humble Texas inventor (Mark Wahlberg) and his family. foreign and domestic policy aside, for some of the first act, it really does appear that Transformers 4 is trying to make a point. The obvious parallels with post-9/11 U.S.
