From Vox:
Transformers 4 is a masterclass in economics
āTransformers: Age of Extinction is the fourth Transformers movie made by Michael Bay, and itās inarguably one of the four best Transformers movies Michael Bay has ever made. Even so, a lot of ācriticsā seem to have misread the movie entirely. At the New York Times, A.O. Scott frets over the filmās ānarrative incoherence.ā At Salon, Andrew OāHehir says the movie leaves us āmeasurably stupider than we were before.ā
These reviews miss the point so badly that you wonder whether they werenāt written by Decepticons.
Transformers 4 is a master class in global economics. Over the course of 166 minutes?ā?long for a film, sure, but short for a graduate-level econ seminar?ā?Bay destroys economic shibboleths as if they were a major metropolitan area concealing the Autobots from Lockdown. His lessons are pitiless: inequality will keep rising, job security will keep falling, and American companies will contort themselves into all kinds of embarrassing positions to suck up to China.
And Michael Bay will keep making all of the money because he understands the changing economy much, much better than you do.ā