Mark Wahlberg is set to replace Shia LaBeouf in the upcoming mega-flick, Transformers 4: Age of Extinction.

The blockbuster actor will see if he can give the franchise a boost after Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen fell short of expectations with the critics, as it scored a measly 20% on the popular review site Rotten Tomatoes.

So what is he going to do for a Transformers franchise in need of a little help?

According to Wahlberg, his character (Cade Yeager) is going to add a human element between all of that robot action.

Wahlberg was quoted in a Dec. 23 interview saying, "It was a tighter script, and its own stand-alone thing. I think the emotional core of it, the human element, is going to be extremely powerful. It's an ordinary man trying to do extraordinary things to save his daughter and keep her alive-and this boyfriend he didn't know anything about. He'd had a child when he was in high school and his wife passed away, and the promise he'd made to her was that she wouldn't date any boys until she graduated and that she'd be at the graduation, because we weren't due to the pregnancy. So there's an anchor to it and a realness to it that I like a lot."

Can Wahlberg do for Transformers what Christian Bale did to the Batman franchise? Fans will have to find out for themselves, when it hits theaters on Jun. 27, 2014.

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