- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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3 out of 5
The third Hasbro toy-to-film franchise (after Transformers and GI Joe) doesn't mess with a winning format. This is Transformers at sea with rebellious no-hoper Taylor Kitsch turned into a naval hero who must fight off alien invaders - in this case snake-eyed cyborgs who pilot ocean-hopping spacecraft, armed with giant yo-yo weaponry. Once the soap opera settles down, director Peter Berg (Hancock) delivers grand-scale wanton destruction in an unrelenting special-effects extravaganza. This is dumb fun personified. Highlights include the title game replicated as a grid map based on tsunami warning buoy positions and war veterans wheeled into action to help bomb the aliens' transmitter. Nonsensical and patriotic to a ridiculous degree, it makes up rules as it goes along and when in doubt, defaults to disaster mode with CGI vistas nabbed from such blockbusters as Titanic, 2012 and Pearl Harbor. Despite her much touted appearance, singer Rihanna barely registers as a gung-ho gunner, but that's par for the course with this movie.
Plot Summary
A reckless slacker joins the Navy, hoping to win the respect of his girlfriend's father, a stern admiral. He and his shipmates are put to the ultimate test as part of a force of vessels that must battle an invading fleet of powerful alien spaceships. Sci-fi adventure, starring Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson and Alexander Skarsgard.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Lt Alex Hopper
- Taylor Kitsch
- Stone Hooper
- Alexander Skarsgård
- Adml Shane
- Liam Neeson
- Cora Raikes
- Rihanna
- Capt Yugi Nagata
- Tadanobu Asano
- Sam Shane
- Brooklyn Decker
- Jimmy "Ordy" Ord
- Jesse Plemons
- US Secretary of Defense
- Peter MacNicol
- Cal Zapata
- Hamish Linklater
- Walter "The Beast" Lynch
- John Tui
Crew
- Director
- Peter Berg
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