Chappie (stylized as CHAPPiE) 2015 American science fiction film

Chappie (stylized as CHAPPiE) is a 2015 American science fiction filmdirected by South African Neill Blomkamp. The screenplay, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, is based on Blomkamp's 2004 short film Tetra Vaal.[5] The film stars Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Jose Pablo Cantillo,Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman, and Watkin Tudor Jones (Ninja) andYolandi Visser of the South African zef rap-rave group Die Antwoord. The film, set and shot in Johannesburg, is about an artificially intelligent law enforcement robot captured and taught by gangsters, who nickname it Chappie.

The film premiered in New York City on March 4, 2015, and was released in U.S. cinemas on March 6, 2015. The film grossed $102 million worldwide against a $49 million budget. At the review aggregators, Rotten Tomatoesrated it 31%, and Metacritic rated it 41/100.

In response to a record high crime rate in Johannesburg, the South African government purchases a squadron of state-of-the-art, armour-plated attack robots from weapons manufacturer Tetravaal, developed by Deon Wilson. A competing project is the remotely controlled MOOSE, developed by soldier-turned-engineer Vincent Moore. Deon is praised for Tetravaal's success but Vincent grows jealous when the police are unwilling to give his heavy weapons platform equal attention. At home, Deon creates a prototypeartificial intelligence that mimics a human mind to the point of feeling emotions and having opinions, but Tetravaal CEO Michelle Bradley refuses to let him test the A.I. on a police robot. Undeterred, Deon steals a recently damaged robot before it is destroyed and puts it in his van, along with the "guard key" needed to update the robot's software. On his way home, he is kidnapped by a group of gangsters, Ninja, Yolandi, and Amerika, who threaten to kill him unless he reprograms a police robot to fight for them. Deon installs the new software into the damaged robot, which responds with childlike terror upon powering up. Deon and Yolandi calm the robot, teaching it words and naming it "Chappie". Despite Deon wanting to stay with the robot, Ninja forces him out of their hideout.

Ninja's gang only has a few days to pay a debt of 20 million rand to Hippo, a powerful gangster. Yolandi sees Chappie as a child and wants to mother him, but Ninja grows impatient with his development due to both the impending deadline for the debt and Chappie's irreplaceable battery running out, giving him days to live. Ninja tries to train Chappie to be a gangster by leaving him to fend for himself in a dangerous neighborhood. After being wounded by thugs, he is followed by Vincent, who plans to deactivate all Tetravaal weapons except for MOOSE. Vincent successfully extracts the guard key for his own use, but the traumatised Chappie escapes and returns to the hideout. Yolandi scolds Ninja for this mistreatment, but he manages to earn Chappie's forgiveness by training him in martial arts and weapon handling. Ninja and Amerika trick Chappie into stealing cars for them, and lie about needing the money to replace his dying body.

At Tetravaal, Vincent uses the guard key to upload a virus shutting down all police robots including Chappie. Johannesburg's criminals immediately start rioting in the streets, and Deon brings Chappie to the Tetravaal factory to fix him. After being restarted, Chappie notices a helmet used to control MOOSE. At the hideout, he re-engineers it to allow him to transfer his consciousness into a computer, so he can change bodies when his current one dies. Ninja's gang uses Chappie to raid a police van and steal money, which is caught on the news prompting Tetravaal to pursue him. When Chappie learns that Ninja's plan to acquire the body was a lie, he prepares to kill Ninja for betrayal. However, Deon arrives to warn them that Michelle Bradley has ordered that Chappie be destroyed. At that moment, the MOOSE robot (controlled remotely by Vincent) is launched to assassinate Deon and Chappie at the hideout and Hippo also arrives to collect his debt. Amerika and Hippo are killed in the ensuing battle while Deon is mortally wounded. When Ninja is about to be killed, Yolandi sacrifices herself to save him and Chappie destroys MOOSE by detonating a bomb.

Enraged by Yolandi's death, Chappie drives Deon to the factory, storms into an office, and fiercely beats Vincent close to death. He then transfers the dying Deon's consciousness into a spare robot through the modified MOOSE helmet. As Chappie's battery dies, the now-robotic Deon wirelessly transfers Chappie's consciousness into a deactivated police robot nearby. Deon and Chappie go into hiding as the police discontinue their contract with Tetravaal. The grieving Ninja finds a flash drive marked "Mommy's Consciousness Test Backup", which contains a copy of Yolandi's consciousness that Chappie took while testing the device on her. Chappie hacks into Tetravaal's manufacturing facility, builds a robot resembling Yolandi, and uploads the drive's contents.

Cast
Sharlto Copley as CHAPPiE (voice and motion capture
Dev Patel as Deon Wilson
Ninja as Ninja
Yolandi Visser as Yolandi
Jose Pablo Cantillo as Amerika
Sigourney Weaveras Michelle Bradley
Hugh Jackman as Vincent Moore
Brandon Auret as Hippo
Anderson Cooper as himself

A Million Ways to Die in the West 2014 American western comedy film

A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 American western comedy filmdirected, produced by and starring Seth MacFarlane, who wrote the screenplay along with Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. The film features anensemble cast, including Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Neil Patrick Harris, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Silverman and Liam Neeson. It was produced by Media Rights Capital and distributed by Universal Pictures the film was released on may 30, 2014

 

In 1882, in the town of Old Stump, Arizona, a cowardly sheep farmer named Albert Stark (Seth MacFarlane) is dumped by his beloved girlfriend Louise (Amanda Seyfried) as a result of his withdrawal from a gunfight. He prepares to leave for San Francisco, believing that the frontier holds nothing for him. Meanwhile, infamous outlaw Clinch Leatherwood (Liam Neeson) robs and kills an old prospector (Matt Clark) for a gold nugget. He orders his right-hand man Lewis (Evan Jones) to escort his wife Anna (Charlize Theron) to Old Stump to lie low while he continues his banditry. Lewis and Anna arrive in Old Stump under the guise of two siblings intending to build a farm, but Lewis is arrested after shooting the Pastor's (John Aylward) son (Dylan Kenin) in asaloon. During the ensuing brawl, Albert saves Anna from being crushed by two of the brawlers, and the two become friends. They attend a County Fairwhere Louise's new boyfriend, the foppish Foy (Neil Patrick Harris), challenges Albert to a shooting contest. Albert is defeated, but Anna steps up and defeats Foy. Foy insults Albert, who angrily challenges Foy to a duel in a week's time.

Anna teaches Albert how to shoot. During a barn dance the night before the duel, Anna slips Foy a Mickey. After leaving the dance, Albert and Anna kiss before heading home. Upon breaking out of jail and murdering the sheriff, Lewis sees the kiss and reports it to Clinch. On the day of the duel, Foy arrives late and goes into convulsions from thelaxative he had unknowingly imbibed. Albert, who has decided that Louise is not worth the trouble, once again forfeits the duel. He retires to the saloon, but Clinch arrives and demands to know who kissed his wife. When no one comes forward, Clinch shoots a nearby cowboy (Ryan Reynolds). He reveals that Anna is his wife and threatens to continue killing unless his wife's lover duels him at noon the next day. Clinch later compels Anna to reveal Albert's name and then prepares to have sex with her, but she knocks him unconscious and escapes.

Anna returns to Albert's farm where he confronts her. Clinch pursues Anna to the farm; but Albert helps her escape, then escapes himself. While fleeing, he is captured by a tribe of Indians, who threaten to burn him alive. The Indians spare him when he reveals that he can speak their language. They give him a bowl of peyote, which sends him flashing back to his birth and through traumatic events of his childhood before making him realize that he loves Anna. Meanwhile, Clinch eventually recaptures Anna in town, in front of Edward's (Giovanni Ribisi) house. Albert returns to Old Stump and confronts Clinch. He wounds Clinch with a bullet poisoned with rattlesnake venom before his own gun is shot out of his hand, but he manages to stall until Clinch fatally succumbs to the poison. Louise attempts to win back Albert, but he rejects her and instead enters a relationship with Anna. Albert also receives a bounty for killing Clinch and uses the money to buy more sheep.

Later at the Fair, the proprietor of a racially charged shooting game "Runaway Slave" asks who would like to take a shot.Django (Jamie Foxx) steps up and shoots the man while commenting that "people die at the fair".

Cast
Seth MacFarlane as Albert Stark, a sheep farmer.
Mike Salazar as 6-year-old Albert
Charlize Theron as Anna Barnes-Leatherwood, Clinch Leatherwood's wife who befriends Albert.
Amanda Seyfried as Louise,Albert's ex-girlfriend.
Liam Neeson as Clinch Leatherwood,an infamous outlaw and Anna's husband.
Giovanni Ribisi as Edward, Albert's best friend and Ruth's boyfriend
Neil Patrick Harris as Foy, an Old Stump inhabitant and Louise's current boyfriend.
Sarah Silverman as Ruth, Edward's girlfriend and a prostitute.
Christopher Hagen as George Stark, Albert's cranky father.
Wes Studi as Cochise
Rex Linn as Sheriff/Narrator
Alex Borstein as Millie
Ralph Garman as Dan
John Aylward as Pastor Wilson
Amick Byram as Marcus Thornton
Evan Jones as Lewis, an outlaw and Clinch Leatherwood's right-hand man.
Dylan Kenin as Pastor's Son, the son of a pastor who is killed by Lewis in the bar.
Cameos
Tait Fletcher as Cowboy #1
Gilbert Gottfried as Abraham Lincoln,he was seen during Albert's drug trip.
Mike Henry as Smiling man in photograph
Dennis Haskins as Snake oil salesman
John Michael Higgins as Dandy #1
Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown
Bill Maher as Comic
Ewan McGregor as Cowboy at fair, a cowboy who laughed at Foy's joke.
Alec Sulkin as Guy at fair
Rupert Boneham as Guy in bar fight
Kaley Cuoco (uncredited, unrated version only ) as Woman in the Store, a girl that Albert tries to pick up in a store.
Jamie Foxx (uncredited) as Django Freeman, he appears where he shoots the owner of the "Runaway Slave" game. The scene featuring him was added after audiences in test screenings reacted poorly to the shooting gallery at the fair which features cartoon images of black slaves as targets.
Ryan Reynolds (uncredited) as Cowboy killed in bar
Patrick Stewart (uncredited voice) as Sheep, a sheep with long legs that was seen in Albert's drug trip.
Ralph Garman as Dan.

Doom 2005 science fiction action film

Doom is a 2005 science fiction action film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak.It is loosely based on the video game series of the same name created by id Software. The film follows a group of Marines in a Research Facility on Mars – initially arriving on a rescue and retrieval mission after communications ceased, the Marines soon battle genetically engineered monsters plaguing the facility.

After movie rights deals with Universal Pictures and Columbia Picturesexpired, id Software signed a deal with Warner Bros. with the stipulation that the movie would be greenlit within 12 months Warner Bros. lost the rights, which were subsequently given back to Universal Pictures who started production in 2004. The film was an international co-production of the United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, and Germany. In an interview with executive producer John Wells, he stated that a second film would be put into production if the first was a success at the box office. Ticket sales for the opening weekend totaled more than US$15.3 million, but dropped to $4.2 million in its second weekend.

 

In the year 2046, a research facility on Mars is suddenly attacked by an unknown assailant. Following a distress call sent by Dr. Todd Carmack, a group of marines, led by Asher "Sarge" Mahonin, is sent on a search-and-rescue mission. One of the Marines, John "Reaper" Grimm, accompanies his sister, Dr. Samantha Grimm, to one of the labs within the devastated sector to retrieve data; here he learns that the dig site where their parents were accidentally killed was re-opened and bones of an ancient group of genetically enhanced race were discovered.

While searching for survivors, the Marines come across one, Dr. Carmack, who is taken to a medical room for examination. The Marines then come across a creature that leads them down to the facility's sewer. One of the Marines, Eric "Goat" Fantom, is killed during their pursuit, along with the creature. Goat and the creature are taken to the medical room. One of the Marines, Gregory "Duke" Schofield stays behind with Sam and they are later attacked by Dr. Carmack, who transforms into a creature. After trapping him, Sam conducts an autopsy on the first creature that reveals its organs are human. Goat suddenly comes back to life. He knows he's turning into a creature and kills himself.

The Marines track another creature down into the dig site and it kills three Marines. Sam and Reaper try to convince Sarge that the creatures are humans, mutated by the addition of a Martian chromosome (called C24) found and synthesized from the bones discovered, and that not all those infected will transform. Regardless, Sarge orders the Marines to kill everything in the facility. Sarge kills the mutated Dr. Carmack and murders one of his Marines for defying his commands. Sam and the surviving Marines are then flanked by the infected. Only Sam and a wounded Reaper escape. To save Reaper, Sam injects him with the C24 serum, which enhances his abilities, and he is able to kill the mutated creatures and the infected. Reaper then battles an infected Sarge and kills him. Having survived, Sam and Reaper leave the facility.

Cast
Karl Urban as Staff Sergeant John "Reaper" Grimm
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Gunnery Sergeant Asher "Sarge" Mahonin
Rosamund Pike as Dr. Samantha Grimm
Razaaq Adoti as Sergeant Gregory "Duke" Schofield
Richard Brake as Corporal Dean Portman
Al Weaver as Private Mark "The Kid" Dantalian
DeObia Oparei as Sergeant Roark "Destroyer" Gannon
Ben Daniels as Corporal Eric "Goat" Fantom
Yao Chin as Private First Class Katsuhiko Kumanosuke "Mac" Takahashi
Dexter Fletcher as Marcus "Pinky" Pinzerowski
Robert Russell as Dr. Todd Carmack
Brian Steele as Hell Knight / Curtis Stahl
Doug Jones as Carmack Imp / Willits Imp

Broken City 2013 American crime thriller film

 

Broken City is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Allen Hughesand written by Brian Tucker. Mark Wahlberg stars as a police officer turned private investigator and Russell Crowe as the mayor of New York City who hires the private detective to investigate his wife.

This is Hughes' first solo feature film directing effort; in previous productions he collaborated with his twin brother Albert. In 2010 Hughes learned about Tucker's spec script, which had languished in development hell sinceMandate Pictures attempted to produce a film in 2008. Under a partnership between Emmett/Furla Films and Regency Enterprises, Hughes began production in 2011 in New York City and Louisiana. The film was released in theaters on January 18, 2013.

The film was a box office bomb, earning just over $34 million at the box office and failing to recoup its $35 million production budget.

NYPD detective Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) is arrested for the murder of Mikey Tavarez, who was believed to have raped and murdered sixteen-year-old Yesenia Barea but "walked" on a technicality. Chief Carl Fairbanks (Jeffrey Wright), goes to Mayor Nicholas Hostetler (Russell Crowe) with a witness and evidence. Hostetler buries the evidence, and a judge clears Taggart as having shot Tavarez in self-defense. The mayor calls Taggart to his office for a private meeting and calls him "a hero," but still forces him to leave the police.

Seven years later, Taggart is living with his girlfriend Natalie Barrow (Natalie Martinez), an aspiring actress. Taggart's private detective business is on the verge of bankruptcy when Mayor Hostetler hires him to investigate his wife, Cathleen Hostetler (Catherine Zeta-Jones), whom he thinks is having an affair. Helped by his assistant, Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal), Taggart learns that Cathleen is seeing Paul Andrews (Kyle Chandler), the campaign manager of Hostetler's rival in the upcoming elections, Jack Valliant (Barry Pepper).

At a fundraiser for Hostetler's campaign, Cathleen reveals to Taggart that she knows he has been following her, and advises him not to trust her husband. Taggart delivers to Mayor Hostetler photos taken of Cathleen meeting with Andrews.

At a film debut party, Barrow reveals that her real name is Natalia Barea, and that Yesenia was her sister. At the screening, Taggart is shocked at Natalie's sex scene, and strongly disapproves. He had thought it would express poetic love, but finds it akin to porn. Combined with guilt over working for Hostetler, Taggart descends into regular drinking bouts. He argues with Natalie over the scene and about the people she is seeing during her work. She breaks off the relationship.

Taggart gets drunk, brawling with strangers while walking the city streets. He receives a phone call from his assistant telling him Chief Fairbanks wants him at a murder scene. When he arrives, he learns that Andrews, Vaillant's campaign manager, has been found murdered.

Taggart tells Fairbanks that he was hired by Mayor Hostetler to investigate his wife. They learn that the candidate Valliant was in Andrews' apartment, and the two men were lovers. Valliant reveals that Andrews was scheduled to meet Todd Lancaster (James Ransone), son of Hostetler's wealthy benefactor, contractor Sam Lancaster (Griffin Dunne). A furious Cathleen tells Taggart that Andrews was a close friend of hers, not a lover, and that he had promised her information about Hostetler's plans for the Bolton Village Housing Project. The deal was expected to enrich both Sam Lancaster and the mayor. Hostetler wanted to find out Cathleen's source, so he manipulated Taggart into tracking her.

Taggart decides to investigate Mayor Hostetler for corruption. He goes to Lancaster's construction business, and finds workers destroying loads of documents. Stealing some of the documents, he discovers that Bolton Village has been sold in order to build high-rise office buildings, rather than a new housing development. Hundreds of impoverished people will be left homeless while Hostetler and Lancaster make a profit. After leaving Lancaster's, Taggart is pursued in a car chase by Hostetler's men, who run him off the road and take back the documents.

Taggart visits Sam's son Todd Lancaster, who says he had intended to give Andrews a copy of the demolition contract as evidence against Hostetler on the night Andrews was murdered. He gives it to Taggart instead. Taggart confronts Mayor Hostetler, who is unfazed because he has kept a video showing that Taggart murdered Tavarez in cold blood. Since there is no statute of limitations on murder, Taggart can still be prosecuted and face prison time. Taggart records their conversation, as the Mayor admits to his own corrupt dealings.

Willing to make the recording public, although he would endanger his freedom, Taggart turns the recording over to Commissioner Fairbanks. While Hostetler is at home celebrating a successful debate, Fairbanks arrives to arrest him. Fairbanks tells the mayor he was having an affair with Cathleen. In the film's final scene, Taggart meets Fairbanks at a bar and they toast Valliant, who has won the election. Taggart's assistant Katy comes in to say goodbye before the two men leave the bar.

Cast
Mark Wahlberg as Billy Taggart
Russell Crowe as Mayor Nicholas Hostetler
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Cathleen Hostetler
Jeffrey Wright as Carl Fairbanks
Barry Pepper as Jack Valliant
Alona Tal as Katy Bradshaw
Natalie Martinez as Natalie Barrow
Michael Beach as Tony Jansen
Kyle Chandler as Paul Andrews
James Ransone as Todd Lancaster
Griffin Dunne as Sam Lancaster
Justin Chambers as Ryan Blake
Alfred Backa as Adrian Blake

Transformers: Age of Extinction (or simply Transformers 4) 2014 3D science fiction action film

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Transformers: Age of Extinction (or simply Transformers 4) is a 2014 3D science fiction action film based on the Transformers franchise. It is the fourth installment of the live-action Transformers film series. It is a sequel to 2011'sDark of the Moon, taking place five years after the battle of Chicago. Like its predecessors, it was directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger, with Steven Spielberg and Bay as executive producers. It stars Mark Wahlberg in the lead role, with Peter Cullen reprising his role as the voice ofOptimus Prime. It is the first film in the series to not feature the original human characters from the first three films, but features a whole new cast of human characters and twenty-two new Transformers, including the Dinobotsfor the first time in the series. Returning Transformers includes Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Leadfoot, Brains, and Megatron (now known as Galvatron). The film was released on June 27, 2014, in IMAX and 3D.[7]

It received an average rating of 18% on Rotten Tomatoes. It also received seven nominations at the 35th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, with Bay and Kelsey Grammer winning the awards for Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actorrespectively.[8] However, many praised the visual effects, the action sequences, Steve Jablonsky's musical score, and the performances of Wahlberg, Grammer and Stanley Tucci. Despite the negative reviews, the film was a massive box office success, grossing over $1.104 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 2014, the second highest-grossing film in the Transformers series, the nineteenth film to gross over $1 billion, and the thirteenth highest-grossing film of all time.

A fifth installment, Transformers 5, is set to be released in 2017 with Wahlberg set to return.

 

Sixty-five million years ago, the alien race known as the "Creators" invade Earth, wiping out most of life on the planet including the dinosaurs with the "Seeds", and cyber-form thousands of planets, including Cybertron. In the present, Darcy Tirrel discovered frozen dinosaur corpses in the Arctic.

Five years after the Battle of Chicago, humanity has grown fearful of the Transformers, resulting in the termination of joint operations with the Autobots. Cemetery Wind, an elite CIA black ops unit formed by opportunistic, ruthless agent and paranoid government official Harold Attinger and team leader James Savoy, is tasked with hunting the remaining Decepticons. However, they have also been secretly hunting Autobots, believing all Transformers to be a threat, despite the Autobots officially being granted sanctuary by the government. With the help from the Cybertronian bounty hunterLockdown, they hunt down, ambush and kill most of the Autobots, including Ratchet and Leadfoot. Optimus Prime is the only Autobot to escape and go into hiding after an ambush in Mexico City, and the primary target whom Lockdown wants captured alive.

In rural Texas, Cade Yeager is an inventor struggling financially, with college funding for his daughter, Tessa, and the loss of his property looming. One day, he and his friend Lucas Flannery discover an old truck in an abandoned theater and they buy it to repair and sell. Cade discovers that the truck is an injured Optimus Prime and repairs him, bringing him back to life. Because Lucas notifies them, Cemetery Wind and Lockdown confront and threaten the Yeagers and Lucas before Optimus attacks and rescues them before Lockdown fires a barricade of missiles and destroys the Yeager's home. Cade, Tessa and Lucas escape with Tessa's secret boyfriend, Shane Dyson. Safety is found after a long chase, but Lucas is killed by one of Lockdown's grenades, while trying to escape. Tensions rise between Cade and the two lovers over their secret relationship while Optimus rallies remaining Autobots Bumblebee, Hound, Drift, and Crosshairs in the desert. Cade hacks into a spy drone he took from the Texas attack, learning of Kinetic Solutions Incorporated (KSI), a technology firm in league with Cemetery Wind, and they decide to infiltrate KSI HQ in Chicago.

Meanwhile, Joshua Joyce, the arrogant head of KSI, shows Darcy, Transformium, the scarce metal of which Transformers are made. He has imprisoned Brains to decode dead and fallen Transformers' minds like Megatron, Sentinel, Leadfoot and Ratchet for raw materials and utilize their data for human-created Transformers "upgrades". Joshua shows Darcy his prized creation Galvatron, created using data from Megatron's severed head. Despite designing Galvatron to look like Optimus Prime it instead resembles Megatron. The Autobots storm the facility, but Joshua stops them, proclaiming the Autobots are no longer needed now that they can create their own Transformers. Disillusioned, the Autobots decide to leave.

Forced by Attinger, Joshua launches Galvatron and Stinger (a man-made Transformer similar to Bumblebee) to pursue the Autobots. Optimus fights Galvatron before Lockdown wounds him, capturing him and Tessa on his ship while Galvatron and Stinger draw back. He explains that those who made the Transformers, the "Creators," want Optimus back. Before leaving, Lockdown gives Cemetery Wind a powerful relic called the Seed, which when detonated transforms living things into transformium and cyberforms wide areas of land, giving the Autobots time to board the ship. Cade and Shane save Tessa and escape with Bumblebee and Crosshairs while Hound and Drift escape with Optimus on a detachable part of Lockdown's ship. Optimus and Brains reveal that Galvatron is the reincarnated Megatron who has manipulated KSI to steal the Seed and rebuild the Decepticons. An enraged Joshua demands to know why he did not have any control over Galvatron, finally deciding to move to his factory in Guangzhou, China. Cade warns Joshua, who retreated to Beijing to use production facilities with Su Yueming, about Galvatron and Attinger. Joshua backs off his deal with Attinger while Galvatron activates himself and infects all the KSI prototypes. Joshua flees with the Seed to Hong Kong, with a betrayed Attinger and Galvatron chasing him.

When the Autobots try to retrieve the Seed at Hong Kong, their ship is shot down by the new Decepticons, leaving the Yeagers, Shane, Hound and Bumblebee to fight. Along the way, Cade kills Savoy in a fist fight in an apartment before Attinger contacts Lockdown for the Autobots' current location, where the Decepticons outnumber and outmatch the Autobots. Knowing this, Optimus releases and tames the legendary warriors known as the Dinobots, with Optimus ridingGrimlock. With their help, the Autobots defeat the Decepticons while Bumblebee manages to kill Stinger while riding Strafe. However, Lockdown, angry that Optimus hijacked part of his ship, returns with a magnetic weapon to reclaim Optimus and the Dinobots. After Optimus destroys the magnetic weapon, he fights Lockdown on an island off Hong Kong. Cade arrives during their fight and attempts to help Optimus, but is attacked and held at gunpoint by Attinger, who proudly justifies his actions before taking his anger out on Cade for siding with the Transformers over humanity (still considering them a threat). Witnessing this, Optimus saves Cade by shooting Attinger, killing him. However, the distraction allows Lockdown to overpower Optimus before impaling him with his sword to a wall. As Cade and Bumblebee fight Lockdown, Tessa and Shane use a tow truck to pull the sword out of Optimus, who surprises and kills Lockdown before he can finish off Cade, avenging the deaths of his fellow Autobots Ratchet, Leadfoot, Sideswipe, Dino, Topspin and Roadbuster.

They defeat the remaining Decepticons as Galvatron, after launching Lockdown's grenade and is the only surviving Decepticon, retreats to an unknown location with Lockdown's ship, vowing that he will return for he is reborn. The Dinobots are then set free and they depart to find their own path as Joyce plans to make amends with Cade by arranging for him and Tessa to gain a new house. Optimus then flies into space with the Seed, sending a message to the Creators that he is coming for them, before ordering the surviving Autobots to protect the Yeagers.

CastMain article: List of Transformers film series characters
HumansMark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager, a single father and struggling inventor.
Stanley Tucci as Joshua Joyce, the arrogant head of KSI who wants to build his own Transformers.[10][11]
Kelsey Grammer as Harold Attinger, a paranoid CIA agent who created the Cemetery Wind to eliminate all Transformers from Earth.
Sophia Myles as Darcy Tirrel, Joshua's geologist assistant.
Nicola Peltz as Tessa Yeager, Cade's daughter who is secretly dating Shane.
Jack Reynor as Shane Dyson, Tessa's boyfriend and an Irish rally car driver.

Titus Welliver as James Savoy, field leader of the Cemetery Wind working for Attinger.
Li Bingbing as Su Yueming (苏月明 Sū Yuèmíng), owner of the Chinese factory used by KSI to build their artificial Transformers.
T. J. Miller as Lucas Flannery, Cade's best friend and a mechanic.

Melanie Specht and Victoria Summer both played Joshua's executive assistants.Ray Lui played a motorcyclist in Hong Kong, while Michael Wong was cast as a Hong Kong police officer.[citation needed] Han Geng had a cameo, singing and playing the guitar in a parked car that is magnetized by Lockdown's ship.[23] General Motors Vice President of DesignEdward T. Welburn had a cameo appearance as a KSI executive. American Idol Season 5 top 12 finalist Kevin Covaismade a minor appearance as a driver.Australian fashion model Jessica Gomes had a brief cameo appearance.

Director Michael Bay also cameoed in the film as the driver of the truck that Optimus Prime and Bumblebee destroyed during their fight against Galvatron. Olympic Champion Zou Shiming briefly appeared as the man in an elevator in Hong Kong who helped Joshua and Yueming.

Transformers
AutobotsPeter Cullen voices Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots who transforms into a rusty Marmon 97 semi truck and later, a blue and red Western Star 4900 Phantom Custom semi-trailer truck.
Bumblebee, an Autobot scout who plays some voice clips and transforms into a modified 1967 Chevrolet Camaro and later, a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro concept.
John Goodman voices Hound, an Autobot commando who transforms into an Oshkosh Defense Medium Tactical Vehicle.
Ken Watanabe voices Drift, an Autobot tactician and a former Decepticon who transforms into a black and blue 2013Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse and a helicopter.
Robert Foxworth voices Ratchet, the Autobot medical officer who transforms into a white and green 2004 search and rescue Hummer H2 ambulance.
John DiMaggio voices Crosshairs, an Autobot paratrooper who transforms into a green 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Stingray.
Reno Wilson voices Brains, a former Decepticon drone turned Autobot who lost his leg.
Leadfoot, the leader of the Wreckers who is seen in a video footage.
Dinobots[edit]
Grimlock, the leader of the Dinobots who transforms into a mechanical horned fire breathing Tyrannosaurus.
Strafe, a Dinobot who specializes in assault infantry and transforms into a mechanical two-headed and two-tailedPteranodon.
Slug, the savage destroyer amongst the Dinobots who transforms into a mechanical spiked and bestialTriceratops.
Scorn, the Dinobots' demolition specialist who transforms into a mechanical three-sailed Spinosaurus.
Decepticons[edit]
Frank Welker voices Galvatron, a human-made Transformer rebuilt from Megatron's remains who becomes possessed by Megatron's mind, making him a new body for the Decepticon leader. He molecularly transforms into a black and grey 2014 Freightliner Argosy cab over trailer truck.
Stinger, a human-made Transformer inspired by Bumblebee who later becomes a Decepticon spy and sabotage specialist and molecularly transforms into a red and black 2013 Pagani Huayra.
Junkheap, a human-made Transformer who has a three-man splitting technique & later becomes a Decepticon under Galvatron's control and molecularly transforms into a Mack garbage truck of Waste Management, Inc.
Traxes, the mass-produced human-made Transformers inspired by Roadbuster who later become Decepticons under Galvatron's control and molecularly transform into red/blue/black/white Chevrolet Traxes.
OthersMark Ryan voices Lockdown, a Cybertronian bounty hunter who transforms into a grey 2013 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700–4 Coupe and works for the Creators to bring Optimus Prime to them.[28][30] He also has a group of Mercenaries and a pack of Steeljaws.

Reign of Fire 2002 post-apocalyptic action fantasy film

 

Reign of Fire is a 2002 post-apocalyptic action fantasy film directed by Rob Bowman and starring Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale. Set in 2020 England after the reawakening of dragons, the film grossed $82 million on a $60 million budget.

Shortly after the dawn of the new millennium, during construction on theLondon Underground, workers penetrate an underground cave. A hugedragon emerges from hibernation, incinerating the workers with its flaming breath. The only survivor is a boy, Quinn Abercromby (Ben Thornton), whose mother Karen (Alice Krige) is the construction crew chief; Karen is crushed to death while protecting Quinn as the dragon climbs to the surface. It flies out of the Underground and more dragons appear, multiplying rapidly. Shown in newspaper clippings and a voiceover, scientists discover that dragons are a lost species responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs by incinerating them and eating their ash, as well as ice ages. The dragons are speculated to hibernate after destroying most of the Earth's creatures until the planet repopulates. After the dragons' awakening humanity resists militarily, including a 2010 use of nuclear weapons; this, however, hastens the destruction and within a few years humans are nearly extinct.

In 2020, Quinn (Christian Bale) leads a community of survivors in aNorthumberland castle who are starving while their crops ripen. Although most trust him, some are restless and defiant. Eddie (David Kennedy) steals a truck to harvest tomatoes with his group, although picking them too soon will destroy next season's seeds. They are attacked by a dragon; one is killed, and the rest are surrounded by fire. Quinn, Creedy (Gerard Butler) and Jared (Scott Moutter) rescue them with old fire engines and firesuits. As they escape, the dragon kills Eddie's son. Quinn begins to lose faith in himself.

The Kentucky Irregulars, an American group led by Denton Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey), arrives with a Chieftain tankand an Agusta A109 helicopter piloted by Alex Jensen (Izabella Scorupco). Van Zan and his soldiers have a system to hunt dragons, they are able to snare dragons with nets, and he knows their weakness: poor vision before sunset. Initially distrustful, Quinn is surprised that dragons can be killed. Van Zan convinces him, and they kill the dragon who destroyed the crops.

The celebration is muted by Van Zan, who lost three men. He later tells Quinn that all the dragons they have found are female, with unfertilized eggs and a metabolism so high that they live only a few months. The Americans believe there is only one male; if they kill it, reproduction will cease. Although Quinn knows about the male dragon (who killed his mother), he refuses to help since the male has destroyed all pursuers.

Van Zan orders his soldiers to enlist the castle's best men. After losing a fight with him, Quinn says that if Van Zan's group finds the male it will kill them and find the castle. Ignoring him, Van Zan's group leaves for London. In the ruins of a town 66 miles (106 km) from the city, the dragon attacks, killing most of the soldiers before finding the castle and killing most of its residents. When Quinn tries to get the survivors to safety in a bunker, Creedy stops him and is killed when the dragon again attacks.

Van Zan and Jensen return to the castle and free those in the bunker. Quinn tells Van Zan he will help them hunt the male in London; its nest is near the construction site where his mother was killed. When they fly to London they find hundreds of dragons, the smaller ones cannibalized by the larger male. Van Zan, seeing Quinn flash back to his mother's death, tells him about his plan to shoot an explosive down the dragon's throat with a crossbow when it inhales. Van Zan fires, but the male destroys the arrow. In a last act of defiance, he jumps off the roof and attacks the dragon with a large axe, where he is eaten. Quinn and Alex lure the dragon to ground level and Quinn fires his explosive into the dragon's mouth, killing it.

While Quinn and Alex are later building a radio tower on a hill overlooking the North Sea, he says there have been no dragon sightings for over three months. Jared arrives, telling them they have contacted another group of survivors in France who want to speak to their leader. Quinn tells Jared he is now their leader, dedicating himself to rebuilding since he sees little chance that the dragons will return.

Cast
Christian Bale as Quinn Abercromby
Matthew McConaughey as Denton Van Zan
Izabella Scorupco as Alex Jensen
Gerard Butler as Creedy
Scott Moutter as Jared Wilke
David Kennedy as Eddie Stax
Alexander Siddig as Ajay
Ned Dennehy as Barlow
Rory Keenan as Devon
Terence Maynard as Gideon
Doug Cockle as Goosh
Randall Carlton as Burke
Chris Kelly as Mead
Ben Thornton as Young Quinn
Alice Krige as Karen Abercromby