The good news is Michael Bay's success proves we're all visually sophisticated. But we're also visually illiterate.
Transformers: Age of Extinction, Michael Bay's latest vertiginous slow-mo cacophony, has reached a new critical nadir even for the franchise. With a mere 17% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it's by all accounts even more incomprehensible, inexhaustible yet completely exhausting than 2009's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a film which featured an Autobot urinating on John Turturro.