It's a big, loud toy, this movie. Nothing special but not bad after all; maybe a bit too long, I mean two and a half hours! Sure, they needed to waste some time presenting us the new cast : Cade (Mark Wahlberg) and his seventeen years old daughter Tessa (Nicola Peltz), and also setting the new scene, where the good Autobots we knew are being hunted down by a secret section of the Cia; their leader Attinger (Kelsey Grammer) is working with a bunch of bounty hunters that I think come from the Autobot homeworld or something, and he wants to terminate all aliens on our world, to give the dead metal bodies to Joshua (Stanley Tucci), an inventor with a big company that uses it to create new robots that might one day take the place of soldiers at war. Only it turns out that to do so he used Megatron's head, and only thought of having control over them but he really never did.
Our friendly Autobots are hiding until Cade helps Optimus Prime: he did it for money but he still did it, so when Cade and his daughter were in life's danger Optimus saved them, of course, because he's like a paladin! From that moment on they are all fugitives. To get his life back, Cade decides to help them figure out what's going on. They end up fighting the bounty hunters and then all of Megatron/Galvatron's new bots. Joshua finally understands what he's done and that he never had control over it, so he switches to Cade's side, helping them.
Now, could we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that the blonde girl on the alien spaceship with strange things crawling at her legs does NOT scream like an idiot? Of course she loses of the gained points by running into her boyfriend (Jack Reynor) Shane's arms saying "you saved me, Shane, you saved me" and totally ignoring her father that was the one who had actually done the whole saving. Being honest, she gains back some points at the end when she comes back for her father, and then hugs him tight telling him he was always a hero. Good. You redeemed yourself!
At the beginning, I admit I had been scared they might kill my Optimus Prime, but after the first escape I was again confident he would make it to the end. Not only he makes it, but at the end he "convinces" some legendary old bots to join him in the fight as their leader: quite ancient, when they were created the creators chose a dinosaur's shape for them. Optimus rides a T-Rex-bot against Megatron's army. Way to go Optimus.
I absolutely loved Stanley Tucci, he's always great, especially when he's playing a farely decent guy: he was funny when he was fascinated by the chinese woman who was protecting it: when they meet again at the end (I was wondering where did she go) he says "did you miss me?" she says No and he gives her a look! Adorable.
Also his expression when the blonde woman tells him she's proud of him... the best things of the movie :-D
All of them together destroy all the evil bots and also the bad bounty hunter, but Megatron leaves promising to come back now that he's reborn. Optimus Prime leaves the Earth, probably to hide the dangerous seed, or maybe to find the creators and tell them their due... I'm not sure, maybe both.
Voice of Optimus was Peter Cullen; of Hound was John Goodman; of Drift was Ken Watanabe.
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