As the release of Transformers: Age of Extinction is less than a week away, the early reviews are in and there is no unanimous verdict on Michael Bay's fourth in the franchise.

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The few reviews that are out kind of split down the middle, while some are pleased by Bay's technical masterpiece, others believe that it is just eyewash, and the real stuff that matters is really off the mark.

Variety actually suggested that the plot bore "resemblance" to X-Men: Days of Future Past:

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"The plot, as scripted by Ehren Kruger (who penned the last two "Transformers" movies) bears more than a passing resemblance to that of the recent "X-Men: Days of Future Past." Just as the X-Men are hunted by Sentinels engineered by a paranoid government using mutant DNA, so the Autobots, after siding with humans in an apocalyptic clash against the evil Decepticons, are being targeted for elimination by a second generation of human-designed Transformers."

The publication also believes that Bay works a dangerous combination of an "aggressive sensory assault" with the "breakneck editing of William Goldenberg," which doesn't do the movie any favors.

The Hollywood Reporter took the most dramatic swipe at the movie:

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This followed by the fatal blow, suggesting that this movie rings in the end of the Transformers franchise.

"Some viewers, though, will probably side with Attinger as they leave theaters after Transformers: Age of Extinction finallydraws to a close," the reviewer wrote.

But it's not all bad, Hitflix seemed to come out as a big supporter stating that this movie, which is in a sense a reboot for the franchise, has shifted gears in the right direction:

"Overall, I think this is a big step in the right direction. It's visually just as wild as the last few Bay films have been, with the director pushing ILM to their breaking point. It is amazing to me that Bay keeps finding a way to somehow make this these things even bigger than they already naturally are, but he is a man whose career can be seen as a series of escalating aesthetic decisions. He knows that these films exist largely to give fans a chance to watch giant robots beat holy hell out of each ether, and on that front, boy, does he deliver."

Transformers: Age of Extinction will hit theaters on June 27, 2014.

Watch a trailer for the film here:

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