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Running time165 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$210 millionBox office$1.104 billionTransformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 American based on the toy line. It is the fourth installment of the and a sequel to 2011's, taking place five years after its events. Like its predecessors, it was directed by and written by, with and Bay as executive producers. It stars,. It does not feature the human cast from the previous three films, and instead introduces a new human cast and many new Transformers, including the Dinobots. Returning Transformers include Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Brains, and Megatron (now known as Galvatron). The film was released on June 27, 2014, in and.Transformers: Age of Extinction received negative reviews from critics but was a box office success, grossing over $1.104 billion worldwide, making it the, the second-highest-grossing film in the Transformers series, the 19th film to gross over $1 billion, and the.

It was the sole film to gross over $1 billion in 2014.A sequel, was released on June 21, 2017. This film's plot summary may be. Please by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ( March 2020) Sixty-five million years ago, an alien race known as the 'Creators' used devices called Seeds to cover Planet Earth with an alloy that will one day be dubbed 'Transformium'.

In the present day, Darcy Tyril excavates the Transformium for K.S.I. Industries, which uses it to build man-made Transformer drones.Five years after, humans have begun viewing Transformers as a threat, leading the U.S. Government to terminate all human-Autobot joint programs. Though the public believes the were granted sanctuary, they are being hunted by a rogue division called Cemetery Wind, led by opportunistic government official Harold Attinger, who believes all Transformers as a whole should be exterminated. They are aided by, a neutral Cybertronian working for the Creators, promising to give Attinger a Seed if his division manages to capture. Cemetery Wind locates Ratchet in and Lockdown kills him when he refuses to give up the whereabouts of Optimus Prime.Optimus, damaged in Mexico City and disguised as an old semi-truck, is discovered in an old theater by Cade Yeager, a financially struggling Texan inventor, who brings him back to his farm. While his teenage daughter Tessa and business partner Lucas Flannery encourage him to turn Optimus over to the authorities after realizing what he really is, Cade instead fixes Optimus, hoping to understand his technology and unexpectedly revives him.

Transformers: Age of Extinction is the fourth film in the live-action film series.It was released on June 27, 2014. Following the Battle of Chicago, humanity has come to fear both Autobots and Decepticons alike.With the aid of a Transformer mercenary named Lockdown, a CIA task-force operated by Harold Attinger begins hunting the remaining Transformers on Earth.

Hoping to collect a reward for turning Optimus in to the government, Lucas calls the authorities, which gets redirected to Cemetery Wind, who, led by Lockdown and Attinger's second-in-command James Savoy (who hates Transformers because he lost his sister in Chicago), attacks and destroys the farm, but Optimus and Tessa's boyfriend, Irish driver Shane Dyson, come to the family's aid. While escaping Cemetery Wind and Lockdown, Lucas is killed by one of Lockdown's grenades. Out in the desert, they seek refuge in an abandoned gas station. Later, Optimus scans a passing Phantom Custom truck to gain an alternate form with the original red and blue paint with flames (healing his injuries in the process) and summons the surviving Autobots –, who has assumed a new alternate form (a modified ), Hound, Drift, and – who have come to distrust humans due to Cemetery Wind constantly hunting them down.

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Using a CIA drone which he stole during the home invasion, Cade discovers K.S.I.' S involvement in the attacks on the Autobots. Optimus vows to personally kill Attinger for his actions against his brethren.Infiltrating K.S.I.' S headquarters in, Cade discovers the dead Autobots and Decepticons are being melted down to make the drones. Joshua Joyce, the ambitious company CEO, is in league with Attinger to revolutionize global defenses and improve human society using the Seed.

He has captured Brains and used him and data from 's head to create the drones and prototype Transformer soldiers and Stinger built from the Transformium harvested from Cemetery Wind's kills. Enraged after seeing their dead comrades being melted down for scrap, the Autobots storm the building, during which Bumblebee gains an upgraded form by scanning a passing 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Concept, where they rescue Brains and destroy the laboratory, but they leave after Joshua announces they are no longer needed. Attinger forces Joshua to deploy Galvatron and Stinger to attack the Autobots. During the battle, Galvatron's behavior becomes slightly erratic when it starts destroying vehicles, and when it fights Optimus it speaks to him. Lockdown then arrives and abducts Optimus while Galvatron and Stinger retreat; Tessa is inadvertently captured alongside Optimus in the midst of the chaos, leaving Cade and Shane devastated.While Lockdown's large prison spacecraft hovers over Chicago to hand over the Seed, Cade, Shane, and the Autobots use the opportunity to sneak onboard and rescue Optimus and Tessa, hijacking a smaller ship containing a group of ancient Autobot warriors known as the Dinobots, just before Lockdown leaves Earth. The Autobots reveal to Cade that 'Galvatron' is in fact Megatron, who gave K.S.I.

The data to build the Transformer drones so he could transfer his consciousness into the Galvatron drone, after they unknowingly revived him. What's more, Galvatron is plotting to use the Seed and the K.S.I.

Drones to conquer the world by detonating the Seed in, as K.S.I. Has brought it there to use in the remote Mongolian desert to create vast amounts of usable Transformium, and build an even larger army to conquer the Earth and spread across the galaxy. Cade informs Joshua about Megatron's presence in Galvatron, causing him to have a change of heart and agreeing to hand over the Seed with help from Darcy and his Chinese business associate Su Yueming. Meanwhile, Lockdown discovers Optimus' escape with the Dinobots, and returns to Earth to recapture them. Optimus decides after getting the Seed, the Autobots will no longer help the humans because of how they distrusted and killed their kind, and now revived Megatron, but Cade explains to Optimus why he shouldn't lose faith in them.

At the K.S.I. Facility, during a disagreement between Joshua and Attinger over the Seed, Galvatron reactivates himself and promptly takes control of the K.S.I. Drones, and a battle follows in Hong Kong's streets between Cade's group, the Autobots, Cemetery Wind, Galvatron, and his drones.

During the fight, Savoy is killed when Cade pushes him off a building. Taking a sword and shield from the ship's armory, Optimus frees the Dinobots and gains their allegiance by defeating their leader in a and they become essential to the Autobots' victory while Bumblebee kills Stinger.Lockdown returns to capture Optimus and the Dinobots, using a large in his ship that picks up and drops metal objects, causing destruction to the city. After disabling the magnet, Optimus fights Lockdown at an abandoned factory. In the ensuing duel, Optimus kills Attinger (who still angrily deems all Cybertronians as a threat) to save Cade, and avenging the deaths of his fellow Autobots, but he also lets his guard down, allowing Lockdown to pin Optimus down by impaling his chest with his own sword into a nearby stone wall.

Cade, Bumblebee, Tessa, and Shane fight Lockdown, with Cade ending up fighting him one-on-one while Tessa and Shane use a tow truck to free Optimus, who kills Lockdown by cutting him in half before using one of his grenades to finish off the remaining drones. Galvatron retreats, vowing to return.As Lockdown's ship leaves Earth, Optimus tells the Autobots to protect the Yeagers (with Joshua offering to help the Yeagers build a new home) and lets the Dinobots go, before flying away into space with the Seed to hide it away, sending a message to the Creators to leave Earth alone because he is coming for them.Cast. Filming Transformers: Age of Extinction; actresses Abigail Klein, Melanie Specht and Victoria Summer are walking in a corridor.Bay announced that filming had begun on May 28, 2013, in,., was used as a stand-in for while in, was re-dressed to portray a city in. The movie was the first feature film to be shot using smaller. It also was shot in various other formats, including IMAX cameras, digital stereo 3-D,. From May 28 to June 24, 2013, Michael Bay uploaded photographs of several cars featured in the film, all apparently Autobots, to social networks including and Flickr.

The film featured two unknown Autobots that transformed into a black and blue 2013 Grand Sport Vitesse (going by production name 'Drift'), and a green 2014 (going by production name 'Slingshot'). Also revealed was a truck from as Optimus Prime's new alternate mode. The Dinobots and were confirmed to appear. On October 29, Michael Bay's Official Twitter Account tweeted that principal photography of Transformers 4 had been completed in, and the cast and crew were heading to the Chinese mainland. (According to previous reports, they would be filming there for one week.) Additional filming in Detroit began in early 2014; a pair of steamships ( and ) which had once traveled between Detroit and 's amusement park were partially restored and used as props for the film. Incidents On October 17, 2013, while filming in Hong Kong, Bay was assaulted by two brothers surnamed Mak, who demanded a payment of HK$100,000 (US$12,900).

The elder brother also assaulted three police officers during the incident. Both brothers and a third man surnamed Chan were arrested on suspicion of assault, with the younger Mak also charged on suspicion of blackmail.

The Mak brothers pleaded guilty to both charges in February 2014 and were incarcerated, with the prosecutor noting that the case had attracted a great deal of media attention and affected Hong Kong's image. Post-production 's VFX supervisor Scott Farrar, who had also supervised the three prior films in the Transformers franchise, rendered the visual effects.

He said the film contains about ninety minutes of visual effects (out of the movie's 165-minute length). Farrer said it was the biggest project, using the largest crew, of his career, and noted that over five hundred crews had worked on it, using various facilities.The nine different formats used in the film included IMAX film, IMAX digital, single-frame anamorphic film, GoPros, crash cams, Red cameras on 3Ality stereo 3D gigs, and red cameras for 3D.

Main article:Steve Jablonsky composed the film's score, marking his sixth film collaboration with director Michael Bay, four of which are Transformers films. The film's score was praised by critics. The soundtrack album sold more than 15,000 units worldwide.

It is also the first Transformers film for which band did not contribute an original song, though their single ' is included in the video game soundtrack of the movie.worked on sound design for the film, having said that he was creating 'the craziest Skrillex sounds I could ever make' and mentioned working on sounds for the Dinobots.wrote a single specifically for the film itself, titled '. The track 'Leave Planet Earth Alone' samples the drum beat of Battle Cry so that the former serves as an intro to the latter as the credits start, though this version is only present in the film; Battle Cry isn't featured on the soundtrack album, and Leave Planet Earth Alone has a unique outro. No mashup version or otherwise is available for purchase. Imagine Dragons also worked with Steve Jablonsky and to contribute additional music to the film's score.On June 30, 2014, an was digitally released on, featuring four tracks as a teaser for the full official score, which features variations of the four themes.

On July 4, 2014, the was released digitally on iTunes containing the full score of the film. The soundtrack album was released on CD by record label La-La Land Records on October 7, 2014.On November 20, 2014, Steve Jablonsky released a statement via Facebook saying that the score would no longer be available on iTunes and other digital music stores after it had reached its limit of 15,000 units before re-use fees would have to be paid. Jablonsky personally expressed his own disappointment in the turn of events, hoping there would be a way to eventually re-release the score, along with the score to, which had also been removed from iTunes and other digital music stores several months prior when it too reached the 15,000 unit limit. Release The film had its in on June 19, with a live concert by Imagine Dragons. Marketing The first televised advertisement for Transformers: Age of Extinction aired during. In a poll by, the spot was determined to be the most anticipated film trailer to be shown, receiving 48% of the vote in the poll. The first official teaser trailer was released on March 4, 2014.

A viral marketing campaign was started for the film upon the teaser trailer's release. On March 30, 2014, a shortened version of the teaser trailer was aired during the season 4 finale of.

Another shortened version of the teaser trailer was aired during the.aired a commercial at the featuring vehicles with clips from the film, along with putting them on display.released an app on May 8 surrounding the film available for iOS and Android devices, allowing users to access exclusive material such as character biographies, images, and interviews with the stars, among other things. A clip featuring never-before-seen scenes from the film and an interview with Imagine Dragons aired during on May 12, 2014.and Hasbro teamed up to construct an official mobile video game for the film. The game was first announced on May 13, 2014, though, the title is still in active development. Also on this date, launched a marketing campaign to promote the film. This included a television commercial where a boy gives a wounded Optimus Prime an Oreo cookie to continue the fight. An exclusive theatrical trailer debuted on May 15 on Movie Trailers at 12:01 AM Pacific Standard Time. On May 21, 2014, two television spots appeared online, both containing new footage from the film.

The film's viral campaign updated on May 22, showcasing all-new posters and realistic news reports of the damage done to Chicago from the third film. Three more television spots, all sporting new footage, appeared online on May 30, 2014.Imagine Dragons's single for the film officially released online on June 2, 2014.Jack Reynor and Nicola Peltz made multiple appearances in the on June 8, 2014. During an appearance on, both Reynor and Peltz promised big things that would please fans. Kelsey Grammer made an appearance on on June 9, 2014. During his visit, the very first clip from the film debuted, showcasing Grammer's character and Wahlberg's in a heated argument. During the first commercial break for the show, a brand new television spot aired. On June 10, 2014, two television spots appeared online, both containing extensive new footage from the film.

At the on March 29, 2014, Mark Wahlberg, who stars in the film, hosted the event. There was also a transmission from Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime, and Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor assembled with Wahlberg to take out cannons that fired slime.Three more television spots appeared online on June 14, 2014, containing new footage of the Dinobots transforming and of Lockdown speaking. On June 17, a brand-new television spot aired on containing new footage.

Another television spot appeared online on June 18, sporting new footage as well. The film's unusual marketing strategy of letting people video the shooting of the film in select locations was the subject of film critic Kevin B. Lee's critical video essay Transformers: The Premake. Video games.

Main article:In summer 2014, and announced Angry Birds Transformers. The game has Transformers movie designs on two of the characters.Home media Transformers: Age of Extinction was released on, and formats on September 30, 2014, in North America. The film was also released on through and on September 16, 2014. A 4K Ultra-high-definition Blu-Ray release followed on December 5, 2017. Reception Box office Worldwide Transformers: Age of Extinction grossed $245.4 million in the United States and Canada and $858.6 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $1.104 billion, against a budget of $210 million.

It was the only film of 2014 to earn over $1 billion at the box office worldwide. Calculated the net profit of the film to be $250.2 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues for the film, making it the most profitable film of 2014. Worldwide, in its opening weekend, the film earned $302.1 million, which is the ever, the highest in 2014, and the second-largest for behind Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($382.4 million).

It was the, the, the second-highest-grossing film in the Transformers film series, and the 11th-highest-grossing film of Paramount (domestically). It is the second film in the Transformers installment to earn over $1 billion following Dark of the Moon and the 19th film overall. Despite being a box office hit, it was considered by several box office experts to have fallen well below expectations.North America Transformers: Age of Extinction is the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2014 in the U.S.

It was released on June 27, 2014 in across 4,233 theaters in North America. It earned $8.75 million from Thursday late-night run, which was the fifth-biggest of 2014. On Friday, the film grossed an additional $31.25 million bringing its total day gross to $41.6 million, including $10.7 million from IMAX 3D theatres. In its opening weekend, the film earned $100,038,390 setting an opening record of 2014 (overtaken by with $121.9 million), which is the fourth-highest opening for Paramount, and the fifth-highest for a film released in June.

The opening-weekend audience was evenly split among those under and over the age of 25 (with 58%), male (64%), and under 18 (27%). The film remained at the summit for two consecutive weekends before being overtaken by in its third weekend. It also crossed the $200 million mark in its third weekend, becoming the fifth film of 2014 to do so. The film closed down its theatrical run on October 9, 2014 and earned a total of $245,439,076, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2014 in the U.S. Outside North America Outside North America, it is the highest-grossing film of 2014, and the sixth-highest-grossing film. Transformers: Age of Extinction earned $202.1 million in its opening weekend from 37 countries in 10,152 screens, which is 35% bigger than Dark of the Moon and marking the biggest international opening of 2014 (breaking 's record set one month prior). It scored the biggest IMAX international opening weekend with $16.6 million from 266 theaters (overtaken by ).

The film topped the box office outside North America for four consecutive weekends despite coinciding with the before being overtaken by in its fifth weekend.International openings of over $5 million occurred in South Korea ($21.7 million), Brazil ($16.5 million), Germany ($11.2 million), Australia ($9.6 million), France ($8.8 million), Taiwan ($8.1 million), Malaysia ($6.7 million), Japan ($6.4 million), the Philippines ($5.7 million), India ($5.35 million), Hong Kong ($5.1 million), and Italy ($5 million). In Russia, the film opened to number one with $21.7 million from 1,100 screens, which is the second-largest in the territory for which 3D accounted for 80% of the total gross. IMAX comprised $2.6 million of the total gross from 34 IMAX screens. Its biggest opener outside the U.S.

Was in, where it scored one of the biggest non-North American openings of all time with $91.2 million from 4,400 screens, which was once the second-biggest opening of all time there. The film set an all-time IMAX opening record with $9.7 million. After five days of its release, Age of Extinction surpassed its North American run with $134.5 million. In China, the film earned an additional $50.9 million in its second weekend for a total of $212.8 million.

In only 10 days of its release, it became the with $222.74 million, thus overtaking 's previous record. Adding to the film's revenue and popularity were product placements of Chinese brands edited into the movie specifically for Chinese audiences.It became the, with $301–$320 million in revenue surpassing 2009's record set by Avatar ($204 million), until it was surpassed by in 2015 over $390 million. It is also the first movie in China to gross more than $300 million at the box office. A large part of the success in China has been attributed to the large fan base there and because of its —which ran during the 1980s and 1990—was one of the highest-quality TV programs at that time which resulted in many children getting attached to it. Transformers toy merchandising was one of the first successful cases by a foreign company in China at its time, its line of transforming robot toys was highly sought-after, especially by boys.At the end of its theatrical run outside North America, the film earned $858,600,000 which is 77.8% of its total gross. In total earnings, the highest revenue came from China ($301 million), Russia ($45.2 million), South Korea ($43.3 million), Germany ($38.2 million), Mexico ($33.5 million), and the UK ($33.1 million).

Authenticity over North American box office opening The $100 million opening announced for Transformers: Age of Extinction is disputed within the industry. According to —which has a direct line into the vast majority of theatres in the United States and Canada to track actual ticket sales—about 4,100 of the 4,233 theatres playing the film generated $95.9 million. The projected total from the Rentrak sales data would put the opening three-day weekend gross at around $97.5 million. For Transformers to have crossed the $100 million threshold, it would have needed to gross more than the nationwide average in the theatres not tracked by Rentrak. Some media outlets have elected to go with the Rentrak figure.

Critical response On, the film has an approval rating of 18% based on 206 reviews, with an average rating of 3.96/10. The site's critical consensus reads, 'With the fourth installment in Michael Bay's blockbuster Transformers franchise, nothing is in disguise: Fans of loud, effects-driven action will find satisfaction, and all others need not apply.' On, the film has a score of 32 out of 100 based on 38 critics, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews'.

Audiences polled by gave the film an average grade of 'A−' on an A+ to F scale.gave the film a 'D', saying that 'the longer the movie goes on, the less interesting it becomes; it just wears you down. As we were finally reaching the 165-minute mark, all that noise and fury was about as exciting as the special effects in an movie.' Peter Travers of gave the film zero out of four stars, calling it 'the worst and most worthless Transformers movie yet.'

Kyle Smith of the gave the film one-and-a-half out of four stars, commenting that 'This series was never good, but it was once fun, or at least flashy. Now that its gears have gone rusty, it's time for an -style rethink.' Scott of said in his review that 'The story is scaffolding for the action and like every other standing structure, it is wrecked in a thunderous shower of metal, glass, masonry, and earth.' Clarence Tsui of commented on his review that it 'barely skirts the idea that humankind and planet Earth are about to be totally annihilated. What is extinguished is the audience's consciousness after being bombarded for nearly three hours with overwrought emotions ('There's a missile in the living room!' Tessa hollers — twice), bad one-liners, and battles that rarely rise above the banal. A trio of editors make a technical marvel out of the fight scenes, but can do little to link the story's multiple threads into something coherent.'

Roth Cornet of gave the film a score of 6.3 out of 10, praising the 'slightly darker/surprising tone and Lockdown' and his ship while criticizing the 'logic/script issues and long running time.' Joe Neumaier of the gave the film 1 out of five stars, commenting that 'If the 'human scenes' all reek of adolescent dialogue and dopey masquerading as character development, it's a toss-up if that's better or worse than seeing clattering collections of junk.' Accolades. This article needs additional citations for. The $100 million opening for Transformers: Age of Extinction is disputed within the industry. According to —which has a direct line into the vast majority of theaters in the United States and Canada to track actual ticket sales—about 4,100 of the 4,233 theaters playing the film generated $95.9 million. The projected total from the Rentrak sales data would put the opening three-day weekend gross at around $97.5 million.

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• Locations
• Texas;
• Chicago, Illinois;
• Detroit, Michigan;
• Utah;
• Arizona;
• China;

• CAST

Bigger! Sillier! Explodier! Totally bypassing eleven, Michael Bay turns the volume straight up to twelve to kick of the post-LaBoeuf franchise.

Bay sets up multiple story threads around the globe, including a brief prologue, filmed by a second unit in Iceland, which sees dinosaurs exterminated by ancient Transformers.

In present day Texas, penurious (aren’t they always?) inventor Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) lives in a small farmhouse with buxom (aren’t they always?) daughter Tessa (Nicola Peltz), until their lives are changed when he comes across a decrepit old truck, which turns out to be – well, guess what?

The Yeagers’ farmhouse is 19818 Melber Lane, Manor on the eastern outskirts of Round Rock near Austin, Texas. You might remember Round Rock area as being the setting for much of Joel and Ethan Coen’s debut Blood Simple.

‘Remember Chicago’ reads the roadside billboard, referring to the cataclysmic battle of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, but the Windy City is nearer than you might think.

Although the little Texas town, where Cade and pal Lucas (TJ Miller) arrive to salvage whatever they can from the local theatre, is Main Street of Taylor, on Hwy 79 northeast east of Round Rock, you may well feel the old theatre looks extraordinarily grand for such a small town.

Well, it is. In reality it’s the largest theatre in Chicago. Built in 1925, but closed since the 1980s, the Uptown Theatre, 4814-4816 North Broadway Avenue, Uptown, Chicago, has previously featured (though usually only its interior) in Backdraft and Home Alone II: Lost In New York.

It’s from the theatre that Cade salvages the abandoned truck which turns out to be Optimus Prime. The Yeagers soon find themselves on the radar of Cemetery Wind, a special ops group of Hollywood’s perennial bad guys, the CIA. Under the control of fanatical Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer), the organisation has turned on its mechanical former allies, hunting both Autobots and Decepticons as outlaws.

The Cemetery Wind vehicles are seen barreling along San Antonio Street in Lockhart, about 50 miles south of Round Rock, but they nevertheless find their way to the Yeager farm.

The sudden appearance of Tessa’s cocky boyfriend, Shane (Jack Reynor), in his Rally Racer gets the Yeagers out of immediate danger.

The subsequent chase leads straight into Taylor via the Main Street Bridge, which crosses the rail lines south of town. This being a Michael Bay epic, cars are soon flying recklessly through the air.

Shane enters into the spirit, roaring through Lockhart and crashing his racer through a quiet bingo game being held in the old VFW Hall, 108 South Commerce Street (round the corner from San Antonio Street, where the specially ops team had just been seen).

The chase ends in that useful old standby, the abandoned factory, where Shane is able to demonstrate his rally-driving skills with a leap from the fifth floor to a remarkably convenient ramp. The location, which is also where Lucas gets gruesomely fried, is the old Packard Automotive Plant at Concord Avenue and East Grand Boulevard in northeast Detroit – which had already featured in Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.

Amid the mêlée, Cade has managed to get his hands on a mini-drone. From a desert hideout, he uses this in a valiant attempt to withdraw cash from an ATM at Hole ‘n the Rock, 11037 South Hwy 191, Moab, in Utah.

Yes, this is real – a 5,000 square foot home and trading post carved out of a huge rock in Utah’s Canyonlands Country.

Tipped off by this, the CIA raids the Hole, but Yeager and co are off to find the other Autobots, who are holed up in the incredibly photogenic Monument Valley, on the Arizona-Utah border, where their carefree frolics appear to be causing all sorts of irreparable ecological damage to the precious mesas and buttes.

Monument Valley, not a National Park as you might expect but a Tribal Park still belonging to the Navajo nation, is usually approached from Flagstaff, Arizona. Pay an entrance fee at the Visitor Center and follow the 17-mile dirt road lop drive. Some areas, such as Mystery Valley and Hunts Mesa, are accessible only by guided tour.

Back in the unfortunate city of Chicago, Joshua Joyce (Stanley Tucci) – techno-whizz head of KSI (Kinetic Solutions Incorporated) – demonstrates the amazing properties of the metal Transformium to buxom (aren’t they all?) archaeologist Darcy Tirrel (Sophia Myles).

Joyce’s impressive ‘KSI Tower’ is a conflation of two locations – both previously used in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.

The exterior is Chicago’s vast Near South Side convention facility, McCormick Place, 2301 South Lake Shore Drive, which previously served as the warehouse of Wayne Enterprises’ ‘Applied Science Division’ in the Batman epic.

Its lobby, however, is that of Trump Tower, 401 North Wabash Avenue which while still under construction, provided the setting for the climactic hand-to-hand face-off between Batman (Christian Bale) and the Joker (Heath Ledger) in The Dark Knight. The completed Tower went on to become the home of villainous Dylan Gould (Patrick Dempsey) in Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.

KSI is using the Transformium to produce a range of knock-off Autobots for military use, with their flagship product being Galvatron, intended to be a cut-price Optimus Prime but destined to end up closer to Megatron.

In their quest to discover ever more photogenic hideouts, the Yeagers and the Autobots too have reached Chicago, where they’ve installed themselves in the abandoned St Boniface Church, 1358 West Chestnut Street, at North Noble Street, overlooking Eckhart Park, northwest of the Loop. The future of the disused church is uncertain, though it’s most likely to be converted into family housing.

With Galvatron and Stinger (bootleg copies of Megatron and Bumblebee) activated, the natives collectively groan “Oh no, not again” as a huge alien craft appears hovering over the Chicago City Hall-County Building, Clark Street (remember it from the climax of The Blues Brothers?).

The craft is ingeniously reflected in the gleaming surface of Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate (affectionately dubbed The Bean), at AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park, alongside which Chief Attinger is on the phone, calmly reassuring the President’s aide (Thomas Lennon) that this is not an attack.

The 2006 sculpture, made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together without visible seams to provide a stunning Dali-esque photo-op, is also featured in Duncan Jones’s 2011 sci-fi Source Code.

By the way, if the ‘White House’ interior looks a little more extravagant than you expected, that’s because it’s the huge glass Tiffany dome of Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington Street. It’s lavish enough to have become the opera house for Brian de Palma’s 1987 epic The Untouchables.

The craft belongs to a giant bounty hunter called Lockdown, who’s captured Optimus Prime and intends to hand him over, along with a cyberforming Seed, to Cemetery Wind. It’s clear that OptiPri and Tessa need to be rescued before the Dark Matter drive can can power up and whisk them off to – wherever.

The vast craft is temporarily tethered to Chicago’s highest building, to the Willis Tower (better known by its former name, the Sears Tower). The Autobots – gaining access via a small breakaway craft at the West Roosevelt Road Bridge at Dearborn Park west of the Loop – contrive to anchor it securely to the nearby Franklin Center Building (previously the AT&T Center), 227 West Monroe Street at South Franklin Street, unfortunately alerting Lockdown in the process.

The smaller breakaway ship is chased along the Chicago River, to North Michigan Avenue, just missing the Wrigley Building, but making a mess of the Gothic embellishments of the poor Tribune Tower – which had been lucky enough to survive intact the mayhem of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.

There’s the inevitable breakneck chase along the canyon of South LaSalle Street toward the Board of Trade Building (see Dark Of The Moon or The Dark Knight), though with a brief detour to zoom through the lower level of East Lower Wacker Drive alongside the Chicago River east of the Michigan Avenue Bridge.

Suddenly, back on South LaSalle, they crash to earth in front of the landmark Rookery Building, 202 South LaSalle Street (famous as Elliot Ness’s HQ in The Untouchables and as the ‘New York’ toyshop in Home Alone II: Lost In New York).

Bumblebee whizzes them out of the city to another hiding place. Once again, they put visual appeal above common sense to hide among the rolling stock of America’s largest railway museum, the Illinois Railway Museum, 7000 Olson Road, in Union, about 55 miles northwest of Chicago.

The museum was clearly a big hit with the Transformers boys – star Mark Wahlberg made a donation of $40,000, while Michael Bay purchased a 1930s crane embossed with ‘Bay City’ to put in his backyard in Montana. You’ll need to be patient if you want to visit for yourself – the museum is closed until April 2015.

While lurking among the period trains, they learn that the mind of Megatron has been downloaded into Galvatron, who intends to detonate the Seed in a major city (which would be a bad thing).

With chaos unleashed in Chicago, Joyce announces that the company’s ‘product’ is being moved to the China facility.

The Transformers franchise has a huge following in the Far East, so with an eye on the lucrative Chinese market, it’s off to Beijing, establishing the scene with a view of the Bird’s Nest Stadium, built for the 2012 Olympics.

Yeager and crew in the alien craft also head east, naturally taking the scenic route over the Great Wall of China (you can see more of the famous landmark onscreen in the 2010 update of The Karate Kid).

The illuminated exterior of the KSI ‘Hong Kong’ facility, where Attinger greets Joyce, is that of the shiny new (2012) Tianjin Grand Theatre, Pingjiang Road, Hexi in Tianjin (tel: +86.22.8388.2000), a good half hour train ride north of Hong Kong.

Housing a 1,600 seat opera house and concert hall, the theatre is part of a larger 220-acre complex of museums, art galleries and shopping mall surrounding a man-made lake, graced by that essential cultural must-have, a musical fountain imported from Las Vegas. Tianjin itself is a historic port, and the largest coastal city in northern China.

At KSI, as Galvatron becomes operational and activates the other rogue Transformers, it’s time to evacuate. Pushing everyone into a car, the CEO of KSI China, Su Yueming (Li Bingbing), heads into Hong Kong proper, where she claims to be able to lose them in the city.

Yueming and Joyce follow the time-honoured tradition of offering cash to a nonplussed stranger for the use of his motorbike, only to be chased through the packed market streets around Ki Lung Street in the Sham Shui Po district of Kowloon.

Also heading to Hong Kong, Galvatron and the Decepticons speed along the Tsing Sha Highway, across the Stonecutters Bridge, which spans the Rambler Channel between Tsing Yi and Stonecutters Island, northwest of Hong Kong.

The Autobots have arrived among the hi-rises of Quarry Bay, on the northeast side of Hong Kong Island beneath Mount Parker. The courtyard in which they fight is behind the Fook Cheong Building on King's Road at Quarry Bay Street.

Before the Seed can be rescued, a blast sends the Autobots bouncing over the rooftops into lush countryside. Before you traipse off to explore the slopes of Mount Parker to find this spectacular landscape, remember – this is a movie.

In fact the green gorge, where OptiPri decides it’s time for reinforcements and starts up the legendary warriors – who become Dinobots – is the Natural Three Bridges, a spectacular geological wonder at Wulong Karst, nearly 700 miles, or two and a half hours by air, from Hong Kong.

A karst landscape is formed when acidic water erodes a bedrock such as limestone, opening up cracks and sinkholes to carve out elaborate formations.

Tianlong Bridge, Qinglong Bridge and Heilong Bridge, the three rock bridges at Wulong Karst, with an average height of over 656 feet, constitute the largest natural bridge cluster in Asia. Wulong is accessible by bus tour from Chongqing, which has an international airport.

The battle proper continues to rage in the centre of Hong Kong, with the city’s famous elevated railway snaking through… hang on – Hong Kong doesn’t have an elevated railway.

In fact, the spectacular scenes of destruction were not filmed in China at all, but on a gigantic set constructed on Washington Boulevard at Clifford Street, in the heart of downtown Detroit.

Around the currently vacant area, crossed by Detroit’s sinuous Jetsons-style rail system, you can glimpse such Motor City landmarks as the old United Artists Theater Building (displaying the huge Vogue billboard) on Bagley Avenue, and the David Whitney Building on Park Avenue.

To complicate matters, the modern green square with its row of towers through which the Dinobots rampage, is McCormick Place, back in Chicago.

In the real Hong Kong, Bumblebee and an aerial dinobot fly over, and crash into, the top of the Bank of China Tower, while the magnetic beam of Galvatron’s craft rips the roof off the AsiaWorld Expo Centre.

The beleaguered authorities of Hong Kong call for help from the central government, which gives the film an opportunity to showcase the extraordinary wibbly-wobbly tower of Beijing’s Pangu 7 Star Hotel, 27 Central North 4th Ring Road, Chaoyang District, where crowds are watching the breaking news on giant screens.

Back in Hong Kong, Optimus and the Tricerobot are magnetically levitated by Galvatron’s beam, saved only when they’re caught in the hollow square of the postmodern 2011 Central Government Complex overlooking Tamar Park, into which the ‘bots plummet as the ship finally explodes.

Determined to get the Seed out of the city, Optimus and Yeager race across Ting Kau Bridge, the 1998 cable-stayed bridge spanning the northwest of Tsing Yi Island and Tuen Mun Road.

They’re headed for a confrontation in – erm – Chicago. The silos at which scores are finally settled are the Damen Silos, just off the Sanitary and Ship Canal at 2900 South Damen Avenue. Sure enough, the silos are covered with Chinese characters, but someone forgot to remove Willis Tower from the skyline behind.