‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ (Film)

‘TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT’

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The Worst One of the ‘Transformers’ Film Series So Far

Timelord007:
Give the man a gold medal for enduring these awful ‘Transformers’ movies. Feel free use my Zero Room to recover, Tim.

Released in June 2017, ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’, the fifth and (hopefully) final film of the ‘Transformers’ film series directed by Michael Bay, was panned by critics and is regarded as being the worst-reviewed film of the series so far. It was also a box-office bomb at the time of its release. 😦

And it’s not hard to see why. After all I’ve seen with what was put into the first four ‘Transformers’ films directed by Michael Bay, ‘The Last Knight’ comes across as the laziest and most creatively uninspiring of the lot. It’s just as well I stopped seeing these Michael Bay-directed films at cinemas. 🙂

Like with ‘Age of Extinction’, I considered watching ‘The Last Knight’ at the cinema at the time of its release in June 2017. ‘Bradley’s Basement’ was in its second year by then. But since I missed out on seeing the fourth film at the cinema in 2014, I didn’t feel it worth my time checking out the fifth film.

The same can be said for the fifth ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ film, even though I’d seen the first four films of the series beforehand. But I knew what to expect when it came to ‘The Last Knight’. I expected it to be a repeat of what went on before in the previous films with a lack of Transformers development.

This was certainly the case when I checked out the film on DVD in 2022, but I wasn’t expecting it to be insultingly and creatively bad when it came to finally watching it for the first time. So much of this film boggles the mind in terms of why the creative choices were made for it to be shown at cinemas.

I don’t know what went on in Michael Bay’s mind when he directed this film, but there doesn’t seem to be the creative enthusiasm anymore. Even though I have issues with the first ‘Transformers’ film, at least some effort was made to make it a groundbreaking achievement in terms of its filmmaking.

Mind you, it doesn’t help when one of contributors to the film’s story happens to be Akiva Goldsman, who also contributed to ‘Batman Forever’, ‘Batman & Robin’ and ‘Star Trek: Picard’. Then again, there were three other writers involved in the film’s script, so he’s not entirely to blame here.

‘The Last Knight’ is arguably the ‘Transformers’ film I despise the most compared to the first four films. I hope to never check it out again. To understand why I feel this way, I hope to enlighten you on things that are considered as missed opportunities and things that are cringingly bad throughout.

The film begins in England – the Dark Ages – where King Arthur and his knights are fighting a losing battle against the Saxons. The wizard Merlin finds the Knights of Iacon, a group of Transformers that have been hiding on Earth, and they give him a staff before they help out to turn the tide of the battle.

And already I’ve lost faith in terms of the credibility of the ‘Transformers’ film series. Whilst acknowledging that the Transformers helping King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table could be a good idea, the absurdity of the Transformers’ presence in Dark Ages England is glaringly clear. 😐

For one thing, I’m getting tired of this idea that the Transformers were on Earth many years ago before the present day and have created our human history. It’d been done in ‘Revenge of the Fallen’, done in ‘Dark of the Moon’, and it’s been done in ‘Age of Extinction’ with uncreative variety.

I don’t want these films to start off with telling us that the Transformers were there before our current time and we didn’t know it. The idea itself is exploited to the nth degree when we get to the scenes featuring Sir Anthony Hopkins’ character and others, but we’ll get to them later in the review.

And yes, the film features some opening narration by Sir Anthony, who says ‘magic is real’ – contradicted shortly by Merlin who says he doesn’t have magic. You could be forgiven if you thought you were watching ‘The Grinch’ narrated by Sir Anthony instead. That’s a way better film than this. 🙂

And of course, we have the most notorious depiction of Merlin ever, played by Stanley Tucci, who is a drunkard. There’s even a shot of him drinking from a bottle for five full seconds. Why do I need to see that?!!! It doesn’t make Merlin the wise old wizard we know. It makes him more of an idiot here!!!

Incidentally, yes, Stanley Tucci is playing the wizard Merlin here. In the previous film, he played Joshua Joyce. Are Joyce and Merlin related to each other somehow? Nope!!! Does Merlin return to play a major part in the film? NOPE!!! He’s just there in the film’s opening and he doesn’t reappear. 😡

A bit of a wasted Stanley Tucci performance, don’t you think? Don’t get me wrong, Stanley Tucci’s performance in ‘Age of Extinction’ wasn’t great, but having him play both Merlin and Joshua Joyce in this film could have given it some credibility. Isn’t Stanley Tucci the new John Turturro of this series?

More about that later on. Anyway, the Knights of Iacon, who help to turn the tide of King Arthur’s battle, all transform into a three-headed dragon called Dragonstorm. I’m so surprised this wasn’t the Predacon Megatron from ‘Beast Wars’ who became a red fire-breathing Transmetal II dragon in this.

We then cut to the present day where the Transformers are still unwelcome among humanity. Once again, I really hate how these movies depict the humans as so unlikeable that they’re willing to distrust the Autobots as well as the Decepticons. Mind you, the Autobots aren’t good-natured here.

I’ve noticed how the Autobots have become pretty foul-mouthed in the ‘Transformers’ films directed by Michael Bay as they go on. I don’t recall them being like this in the 1980s cartoon series, as they were genuinely good-hearted and well-spoken. Why should they be very foul-mouthed here?

The Autobots are also pretty violent-hungry! Bumblebee seems willing to kill someone and Hound is looking forward to a good day’s killing. Even Optimus Prime, who returns to his home planet of Cybertron to meet up with Quintessa, is keen on killing her when he should be a peace-loving robot.

If the Autobots aren’t going to stand for goodness and peace like the 1980s cartoon show and other spin-off shows have depicted them over the years, why should I care about them in these movies? As far as I’m concerned, both Autobots and Decepticons can destroy each other to end their long war.

And if you think I’m being too harsh on that score, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the humans complained about the Autobots’ violent tendencies before they got shot by one of them in order to be silenced. It’d show how crazily psychotic the supposedly good Transformers are in this film. 😡

Oh incidentally, Cybertron is back in the film. Many have complained about the continuity of these ‘Transformers’ films, especially when Cybertron got destroyed at the end of ‘Dark of the Moon’. I can forgive this continuity error and speculate Cybertron fell into a time warp, a wormhole or something.

What I can’t forgive is how the film mucked up Megatron’s presence in the film. Yeah! Megatron is back! Wait, wasn’t he Galvatron in the previous movie? Surely it wouldn’t hurt for the film to explain how Galvatron reverted back into Megatron? Did Michael Bay forget the continuity of these movies?

Mind you, I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case considering how lazily-written and lazily-directed this film seems to be here. If only these films were more faithful to the original 1980s cartoon show, then I could give the ‘Transformers’ film series a fair chance in terms of its credibility.

By the way, there’s nothing wrong with your screen when you’re watching the film. The aspect ratio keeps changing. Apparently, Michael Bay filmed the entire movie on three different aspect ratios. And these rapidly change with no consistency to them. Why did Michael Bay make the film like that?

With ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’, I can put up with the inconsistency of the aspect ratio changing during the film’s climax, as the film itself is very good and has a good story to it. Here, with ‘The Last Knight’ being all over the place, it’s very hard not to notice the aspect ratio constantly changing here.

Anyway, let’s talk about the human characters for a bit. Mark Wahlberg returns to play Cade Yeager in the film. And I like him even less in this film compared to the previous film. Whilst Mark Wahlberg is a good actor, I find Cade’s character development throughout these movies very off-putting here.

In ‘The Last Knight’, Cade is meant to be protecting the Autobots that are being hunted down by the new international task force called the Transformers Reaction Force (TRF). Now ideally, I would like this stage of Cade’s character development if he was given heroic and kind-hearted traits as a human.

Instead, Cade is rather rude to people and comes across as an unlikeable jerk throughout. When he receives a talisman from a…’dying’ Autobot? (I don’t know and I don’t care anymore), it’s revealed he’s the titular ‘last knight’ of the film. Somehow unveiling that doesn’t make it that awe-inspiring. 😦

There’s not that much explored in terms of his relationship with his daughter Tessa, who only appears as a voice cameo by Nicola Peltz. You’d think the film series would continue to explore that angle in terms of Cade’s relationship with his daughter. Or maybe Nicola Peltz decided not to return.

Josh Duhamel also returns as William Lennox in the film. Where was he when we needed him in the fourth ‘Transformers’ movie?! Actually to be fair, Lennox is perhaps the only human character in these ‘Transformers’ films that I genuinely like, mainly because he’s openly defending the Autobots.

In some respects, I wish the ‘Transformers’ films were from Lennox’s point-of-view as opposed to Sam Witwicky’s and Cade Yeager’s. We still don’t know what the latest is on his wife and child from the first film. I presume he’s still married and has a daughter, since the sequels don’t mention them.

I like how Lennox is a reluctant member of the TRF and he still has faith in the Autobots, despite the humans wanting to get rid of them. I wonder if he was forced into active duty to get rid of the Autobots rather than willingly so. It’d be interesting to explore if the film was brave enough to do so.

Sir Anthony Hopkins stars as Sir Edmund Burton, the 12th Earl of Folgan, who is an astronomer and a historian that knows a lot about the history of the Transformers on Earth. And like everyone else, he ends up being an unlikeable jerk. How come there aren’t that many likeable people in these movies?

I don’t know if it’s me, but Anthony Hopkins seems to have a reputation of playing unlikeable characters of late. It’s in the ‘Thor’ films where Odin became an unlikeable jerk and it’s in ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’. Maybe I’m overthinking this, but there seems to be that trend here.

Sir Edmund also seems to get into the Prime Minister’s office in 10 Downing Street quite easily and even tells him to shut up a lot. I think the Prime Minister played by Mark Dexter is meant to be David Cameron here. I’m surprised Michael Bay didn’t hide him like he hid George W. Bush in the first film.

Michael Bay got it wrong with who the Prime Minister was in 2017 anyway, as it should Teresa May by this point. Then again, ‘The Last Knight’ could have been made when David Cameron was still the UK’s Prime Minister at the time, so judge it as you will. Is this an unfortunate continuity error or not?

I need to raise the issue of Anthony Hopkins’ character showing Cade Yeager and Viviane Wembly the history of the Transformers on Earth at his mansion. It turns out the Transformers have made more appearances on the planet Earth than we realised, including one of them killing Adolf Hitler. 😐

Their existence with mankind for centuries has been guarded by a secret society of historical figures called the Order of Witwiccans, which included Ludwig van Beethoven, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Elizabeth I, Steven Hawking, Abraham Lincoln, Sir Isaac Newton, etc.

Even Archibald Witwicky and Sam Witwicky were in that order, justifying the Shia LaBeouf cameo in the form of the eBay photograph from the first film in Burton’s mansion. This of course makes no freaking sense when you consider the chronology of these movies and what had been established. 😐

I mean, seriously! Every figure known in human history was a part of the Order of Witwiccans and they kept the Transformers a secret throughout human history…and no-one noticed! Come on! I think someone or some people might have let slip about the Transformers’ presence at some point!

This just reeks of very lazy writing and doesn’t need to be here. This is what I meant about the Transformers being on Earth long before the present day being exploited to the nth degree. Weren’t the Transformers on prehistoric Earth in ‘Revenge of the Fallen’ enough for us to contend with here?

Incidentally, something I forgot to mention in my review for the first film. There’s a moral message that Sam Witwicky said which has been in the Witwicky family for generations. That message of course is, “No sacrifice, no victory”. King Arthur gets to say that message of sorts in ‘The Last Knight’.

Hearing the “No sacrifice, no victory” message exploited in the fifth ‘Transformers’ film makes me feel empty when hearing it to compared to the first film. It worked fine in the first film because at least it was attempting to be a decent effort. Here, it just feels forced and doesn’t reflect everything else. 😦

I get what “No sacrifice, no victory” is trying to be about. It’s trying to match Peter Parker’s “With great power comes great responsibility” in ‘Spider-Man’. But hey, it worked well in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’, because it was a way better movie compared to what ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ is.

In fact, doesn’t ‘Transformers’ already have a moral message compared to Sam Witwicky’s? Optimus Prime said in the 1980s cartoon “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings”. Heck, he even said it in the first ‘Transformers’ movie. How come he doesn’t get to say that line very often in these movies?!

Laura Haddock stars as Viviane Wembly, a professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a polo player. And she looks quite a lot like Megan Fox. I know a lot of people have mentioned this, but she does look quite a lot like Megan Fox with the dark long hair, gorgeous physique and all.

I wonder if Michael Bay cast Laura Haddock to play Viviane because she looked like Megan Fox and he wanted a Megan Fox-like character in the film. Heck, this film would be more interesting if Mikaela was the Oxford University professor instead and she ended up as the descendant of Merlin.

Also, does Michael Bay have a thing for English actresses in his ‘Transformers’ films lately? I mean he’s cast English women like Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Sophia Myles as well as Laura Haddock. Does he think English actresses are friendlier compared to American actresses like Megan Fox here?

And yes! Viviane Wembly is revealed to be the descendant of Merlin and has control of the alien staff given to Merlin all those years ago. I don’t know if it’s me, but hearing that Viviane is the descendant of Merlin doesn’t sound particularly interesting, especially when she’s not really interesting.

Don’t get me wrong. Laura Haddock’s a fine actress, but there’s not much to say about Viviane except people taunt her that she hasn’t found a match yet – whether male or female. And I get she’s meant to be Cade Yeager’s love interest in the movie, but even that doesn’t seem to go anywhere. 😦

For one thing, Cade’s often rude to Viviane – telling her to ‘shut it’ at some points – and there’s little time for them to spend as a romantic couple with all the action scenes taking over. There’s a kiss between Viviane and Cade towards the end of the film, but I couldn’t feel the emotional connection.

Also, there’s this weird exchange between Sir Edmund, Cade and Viviane in the film.

Sir Edmund: No whoopee, Mr. Cade?

(surprised) “Wait, what?!”

Cade: It’s been a while.
Vivian: Well, how long’s a while, a week, a month, a year?

(astonished) WHY IS THIS IN THE MOVIE?! Why do I need to know how long it’s been since Cade had sex with someone?! You could’ve easily ended this exchange with this!

Dr. Abbott Well, we knew it must be difficult. My wife didn’t see how you could manage it at all, you know.

PLEASE, PLEASE, MOVIE!!! ACT LIKE THAT OUR TIME IS IMPORTANT WITH YOU!!! STOP GIVING US POINTLESS SCENES THAT HAVE NO RELEVANCE!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!! 😡

Anyway, the film also features Isabela Moner as Izabella, a street-wise tomboy who was orphaned by the Battle of Chicago from ‘Dark of the Moon’. Honestly, I felt Izabella was tagged on in the film, since she doesn’t really serve much to the plot and she only appears at the beginning and at the end.

She also has robot friends in Sqweeks and Canopy. Sqweeks could be this film series’ equivalent of WALL-E and Canopy ends up getting killed in the film, but I don’t know much about him to care. Izabella tries to make a new home with Cade and the Autobots, but he doesn’t openly welcome her.

There are also four ‘geeky’ young boys that Izabella meets when they come to see the remains of the Transformers from the Battle of Chicago from ‘Dark of the Moon’ as well as…is that stadium from ‘The Dark Knight Rises’? I don’t know who the four boys are in and don’t care about looking them up.

Moment of silence.

(sighs) Okay, if you insist, they’re Benjamin Flores Jr., Juliocesar Chavez, Samuel Parker and Daniel Iturriaga. But seriously, since they’re credited with no names and they don’t serve anything meaningful to the plot, apart from the Samuel Parker kid who flirts with Izabella, why should I care to talk about them?

There’s Jerrod Carmichael as Jimmy, a young man from South Dakota whom Cade hired through a want ad, and he could easily be considered the film’s black comic relief. And there’s Santiago Cabrera, who I’ve seen in ‘Star Trek: Picard’, as Santos, a ruthless commander of the TRF strike force.

The film also features the return of…ARGH!!!!….John Turturro as Agent Simmons! I thought we’d seen the last of him! Thankfully he doesn’t provide much to the film’s plot apart from a couple of phone exchanges with Sir Edmund, but you could have easily cut him out from the film in an instant!

Why did Michael Bay bring John Turturro back for this fifth film of the ‘Transformers’ film series when he didn’t appear in the fourth film? Like I said, isn’t Stanley Tucci the new John Turturro by this point? Why does Michael Bay think that people like Simmons? Maybe some do, but I’m not one of them!

There’s Glenn Morshower as General Morshower and Liam Garrigan as King Arthur. There’s Mitch Pileggi as a TRF group leader, Tony Hale as a JPL engineer and Gil Birmingham as Chief Sherman. And there’s Remi Adeleke as a TRF lieutenant and Stephen Hogan as Viviane’s father in flashback scenes.

Now I’ve talked about the humans, let’s talk about the Transformers. Once again, little character development can be found for these characters. Optimus Prime continues to be voiced by Peter Cullen. I wonder what Peter Cullen thought about the ‘Transformers’ films when taking part in them.

In the film, Optimus ends up becoming a bad guy, earning him the name of Nemesis Prime. But don’t worry! He doesn’t become a bad guy for long. In fact, he’s barely in the film despite being on the film’s posters. And he’s cured of his brainwashing once Bumblebee finds his voice and speaks to him.

No seriously! Bumblebee says “I would lay my life for you!” and Optimus is cured of the brainwashing put into him by Quintessa. Just like that! Did…did a brick fall on my head? Or did a tonne of bricks fall on my head? Because I’m sure as I’m watching these films, I’m getting stupider! 😦

Megatron, voiced by Frank Welker, returns and is unimpressive as ever. There’s also Quintessa, who is the Prime of Life, and voiced by Gemma Chan. May I point out that it was the Quintessons who created the Transformers on Cybertron. Quintessa was the name of the planet that they came from.

Bumblebee finds his voice in the film and he’s voiced by Erik Aadahl, not Mark Ryan as in the first film. But honestly, I don’t care about Bumblebee finding his voice, since there’s little character development for him in these movies. Oh and he was there when the Autobots fought against the Nazis.

Sir Edmund has a robot butler in the film named Cogman and he’s voiced by…Jim Carter? Who plays Carson in ‘Downton Abbey’? Huh! Wow! That’s a bit of a low even for Jim Carter. Don’t get me wrong, he voices Cogman fine, but I didn’t expect him to voice a character in a ‘Transformers’ film. 😐

Carson would greatly disapprove! I imagine Jim Carter declined to play Sir Edmund’s butler in the film, but agreed to voice him when it was decided to make Cogman a robot instead of a human. There’s no justification for that being true, but would you really be surprised if that were the case? 😐

Quite frankly, Cogman’s a bit of lunatic in this film. I mean, he serves Sir Edmund faithfully but he has moments of anger when he lashes out at Cade out of nowhere for no reason. He also doesn’t like Cade and Vivian being together, despite providing a romantic dinner for them aboard a submarine.

Cogman also plays organ music and sings opera when Sir Edmund shows Cade and Vivian around. Annoyingly so! I get Cogman’s organ music playing and opera singing is meant to be comedic, but it doesn’t come across that way. I found the old lady playing the organ in Wallace & Gromit‘s ‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ funnier.

There’s also the introduction of Hot Rod in the film. Now I know Hot Rod. He was in the 1986 ‘Transformers’ movie and he ended up becoming Rodimus Prime, the next Autobot leader after Optimus. Oh, so what’s he like in this film? Well, Hot Rod is voiced by Omar Sy, who’s a French actor.

Not that I have anything against Omar Sy being a French actor, but because of that, Hot Rod has to speak with a French accent too. And Hot Rod doesn’t even like his French accent. Um, well, why did you have the French accent to begin with? How is it that you robots know about the French accent?

Oh right, because you were with us throughout the centuries on Earth when we didn’t realise it. I almost forgot. How stupid am I?! Well, surely your accent can be changed from French to English or American if you wanted to? You’re supposed to be sophisticated robots from an alien planet after all! 😐

I mean, does it really take that long for Bumblebee’s voice box to be fixed or for Hot Rod’s accent to be changed when it’s stuck at French? Did any of the writers for the ‘Transformers’ film series think these things through? Did Michael Bay deliberately ask the writers to write in these inconsistencies?

♪ Dare to be stupid, dare to be stupid, What did I say?, Dare to be stupid, Tell me, what did I say?, Dare to be stupid. ♫

Yep, this is Rodimus Prime in the future, everyone! You know, I’m glad I missed out on this film when it was released at cinemas in 2017. At the time, I was watching Series 10 of ‘Doctor Who’ with Peter Capaldi. And I find the writing of that certain season way better than what ‘The Last Knight’ gives us!

Also upon reflection, I enjoyed going to conventions like ‘GEEKS Salisbury Comic Con’, ‘London Film & Comic Con’ and ‘York Unleashed’ at the time this film came out at cinemas. I know that doesn’t have to do with anything in this film, but I found those conventions way better and more enjoyable.

The film also features the return of Drift (voiced by Ken Watanabe), Hound (voiced by John Goodman) and Crosshairs (voiced by John DiMaggio). If you’ve forgotten about these Autobots characters from ‘Age of Extinction’, don’t worry about it. They’re easily forgettable in this movie too.

There are also Decepticon characters like Nitro Zeus (voiced by John DiMaggio), Mohawk (voiced by Reno Wilson), Berserker, Onslaught and Dreadbot. For some strange reason, they’re presented in a ‘Suicide Squad’-like parody and because I don’t know anything about them, why should I really care?

Sqweeks is voiced by Reno Wilson, but I don’t know who voices Canopy. Barricade also returns in the ‘Transformers’ film series, and is voiced by Jess Harnell. There’s also Wheelie, voiced by Tom Kenny. I thought we saw the last of him! He wasn’t in the fourth film! Shouldn’t it be Brains in this film?

Steve Buscemi also voices an Autobot character called Daytrader in the film, who is a scavenger. Honestly, the Transformers characters are getting uglier as the films go on. There’s Topspin, voiced by Steven Barr, and Mark Ryan voices a ‘WWII Tank’ Autobot and an elderly ‘Lieutenant’ Autobot. 😐

There are also the Knights of Iacon, a group of twelve Cybertronian Knights who protect the alien staff that they give to Merlin and they merge to form the three-headed Dragonstorm. They include Dragonicus, Stormreign, Steelbane and Skullitron. And I don’t know who’s who in that certain group.

The Dinobots are also back in this film, including Grimlock and Slug. Don’t know what became of the other Dinobots including Strafe and Scorn, but apparently there are mini-Dinobots in this film. They must have been reproduced asexually. I’m not sure know how that’s possible with these robots.

Is this film over yet?! (Pause) PLEASE?!!! (Pause; sobs away) PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, LET THIS BE OVER!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There’s a moment where Grimlock eats a car – Chief Sherman’s, I believe – and Cade gets him to stop eating it. (sighs) I mean, is this what Grimlock’s reduced to? Especially when having no voice in the live-action film series? How is it that Grimlock ended up becoming such a big bozo in these films?

Grimlock: ME GRIMLOCK NO BOZO! ME KING!

Not you, Grimlock! The other one!

There’s also a Transformers who turns into the submarine HMS Alliance, but I don’t care by this point. There’s Trench, an Autobot who resembles the Constructicon called Scrapper. And there’s the Infernocons who work for Quintessa. Optimus manages to kill them all with one swoop of his sword. Yay. 😦

And now we come to the most absurdist part of the movie! Are you ready?! Because this is a treat! For you see, Unicron in this movie! Remember, Unicron? He happens to be the planet-eating monster that was in the ‘Transformers’ 1986 film. An important character in the ‘Transformers’ lore!

And what’s he like this film? Well, Unicron is a giant planet-destroying Transformer. Okay, so far so good. And he’s actually the planet Earth where six of his mechanical horns are seen!

I repeat! Unicron…is the planet Earth! The planet Earth…happens to be…a giant planet-destroying monster!!!

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Tim inhales deeply to keep cool. He turns to look.

WilliamsFan92 and Timelord007 stare blankly at him.

Tim Bradley: There, you see? Our planet has been a planet-destroying monster this whole time. Wouldn’t you know it?

WilliamsFan92 and Timelord007 continue to stare blankly.

Tim Bradley: I know it doesn’t match to what was in the 1986 ‘Transformers’ film and it probably might be in a ‘Transformers’ spin-off like ‘Transformers: Prime’ where Earth might be Unicron, but this is an ingenious twist I didn’t see coming in the film! Not ever! NOT EVER!!!

WilliamsFan92 and Timelord007 continue to stare blankly.

Tim Bradley: And it’s also pathetic that we never see Unicron as Earth transform from a planet into a robot, but hey! UNICRON IS PLANET EARTH!!! Isn’t that amazing?!!!

WilliamsFan92 and Timelord007 continue to stare blankly.

Tim Bradley: ISN’T THAT AMAZING!!!!!! It all stands to reason!!!

WilliamsFan92 and Timelord007 continue to stare blankly.

Tim Bradley: ♪ Transformers! More than meets… ♫ ARGH, THIS MOVIE IS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With that, Tim runs out of the room, sobbing in despair as he goes.

WilliamsFan92: Wow! I didn’t even say anything! I’m just standing here.

Timelord007: I think this is where the movie broke him.

Eventually, Tim returns to the room.

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(calms down) So anyway,

I could talk about the action sequences featured at the end of this movie, but honestly I’ve given up caring about what they entail as they’re more or the less the same as in previous films. The changing aspect ratios in the film don’t help much, especially when you can’t make out most of the action. 😡

‘The Last Knight’ is shorter compared to ‘Age of Extinction’, but the climactic action scenes are still long and laborious to sit through. I often drifted from watching the film as the climactic battle went on, not caring about what happened to certain characters in the film. That isn’t what a film like this should do.

The film concludes with Quintessa, who survived the film and has taken on human form as Gemma Chan. She approaches a group of scientists who inspects one of Unicron’s horns and offers them a way to destroy him. All of this is setting up for a sixth ‘Transformers’ film…that probably won’t ever happen.

Depending on whether you have the film on DVD or Blu-ray, the DVD/Blu-ray special features are as follows. There’s ‘Merging Mythologies’, ‘Creating Destruction: Inside the Packard Plant’, ‘Climbing the Ranks’, ‘Uncovering the Junkyard’, ‘The Royal Treatment: Transformers in the UK’, ‘Motors and Magic’, ‘Alien Landscape: Cybertron’ and ‘One More Giant Effin’ Movie’.

I’ve said as much as I can about this movie and there’s probably more left to be talked about, but honestly I don’t have the time and I don’t think I have enough energy left to share how much of a mess ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ is. In a nutshell, I found this film pretty awful. No bones about it!

It’s amazing how low the ‘Transformers’ films by Michael Bay have gone about lately. What started with a decent film in the series has ended up being a collection of bloated films that has no understanding of what ‘Transformers’ is about in terms of what made the characters work so well. 😦

It’s a shame I have to share with you these feelings I have about the ‘Transformers’ live-action films. I really hoped they’d be good and they’d be faithful adaptations of the 1980s cartoon show. But judging how the films ended up, including ‘The Last Knight’, I can’t see the film series getting better.

I know it sounds like I’ll be contradicting myself sooner or later, but honestly, I can’t see the live-action ‘Transformers’ film series getting any better. Not ever! NOT EVER!!! I firmly believe that!

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With that, Tim gets up and walks away. He then stops. Then he turns around and returns.

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Although this next film is pretty good! 🙂

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ rating – 1/10

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