The context for “Age of Extinction” is that sometime soon, China will pass the United States to become the world’s largest movie market, making the pursuit of the Chinese market a strategic imperative for the Hollywood majors. But my colleague Justin Chang has attempted to parse the politics of “Age of Extinction,” and observed that Bay’s films are hardly apolitical, even if his worldview seems about as sophisticated as a 30-second burger spot. The “Transformers” films may be seen by their studio and filmmakers as disposable, mere summer amusements. It’s just Chinese patriotism on the screen, not American.
“Transformers: Age of Extinction,” is a very patriotic film. My first reaction to “Age of Extinction” was that it was an astonishingly unpatriotic film. But behind the incoherence and the bombast, Bay once again is showing the way forward for the American film industry, and this time, the path he has revealed is a dark one, and not just from the point of view of film critics and cineastes.
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