Indyfreak's Movie Review of Transformers: The Last Knight

Rating of
2.5/4

Transformers: The Last Knight

Michael Bay at his most utterly bonkers.
Indyfreak - wrote on 01/04/18

The fifth Transformers movie no only just exists, it is perhaps the most insanely written and off the walls nonsensical installment yet in the franchise.
Unlike the other films, the movie doesn't waste much time on the uncomfortable sexual innuendo and fratboy humor. Instead on the absurd plot details that somehow by the power of cocaine fueled screenwriting had resulted in a Transformers story that includes King Arthur, Merlin, submarine battles, Star Wars styled dog fights, Cuban transformers, bimbo scientists, evil Optimus Prime, and that's only half the movie.
The action scenes and CGI are much improved from the last film which I felt was a significant downgrade in quality. The sheer scale of some moments are impressive even for a Michael Bay movie. And yes the movie is still 150 minutes long, it doesn't feel like 3 hours. Especially when the last one actually was 3 hours long.
The human characters are naturally sidelined for the CGI robots and mayhem but some excel at chewing the scenery. Anthony Hopkins comes close to stealing the movie as a foul mouthed mad scientist. Mark Wahlberg and Josh Duhamel provide the heroic leads while Laura Haddock is saddled with the role of aforementioned bimbo scientist, she seems fully aware how stupid the whole enterprise is and plays it well enough. Newcomer Isabela Moner is the new adolescent protagonist and is doing her absolute best with the thinly written part of "kickass child hero".
'TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT' is overlong and outrageously stupid but it's hard not to be entertained by it.

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