In 'Rise of the Beasts,' the Autobots have been stranded on Earth for seven years and seven films. This one's a time-traveling movie, flashing back to 1994.
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You know what’s not bad? “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.” Dumber than a box of lugnuts, but superior to the Michael Bay-directed schlocktaculars that ran as long as 165 minutes. The new “Transformers” movie clocks in at 117 minutes, a lot of them pretty zippy. The year is 1994. Anthony Ramos of “In the Heights” portrays Noah Diaz, an Army vet and electronics expert whose little brother copes with sickle cell disease. Money’s tight. Their mother works hard to keep the family afloat. This time Noah’s the one who discovers: that car he just stole? It’s an Autobot, from the planet Cybertron, reporting to noble interstellar warrior Optimus Prime, who’s about to face Earth’s latest non-political calamity: the planet-sucking Unicron.
Alongside Ramos’ Noah, Dominique Fishback plays the other significant human character introduced here, an unappreciated but brilliant museum factotum Elena. She and Ramos mellow out the movie’s inevitable mechanical vibe; they’re good company. Elena’s discovery of the ancient, all-powerful “Transwarp Key”becomes the thing everyone’s chasing after, including giant and speedy mechanical spiders, aka Terrorcons, marshaled by the vicious Scourge .
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