Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) by Bugger217 — 14 Sep 2017

Transformers: The Last Knight is hilarious. Not because it's funny, but because it's ridiculous to the point of eliciting laughter. I was honestly shocked at just how stupid this film managed to be sometimes. After Age of Extinction, I thought there was no way these movies could possibly get worse. Unfortunately, I was wrong.

The same basic plot we've seen four times before makes a return, but this time, by hugely convoluted means, the film forgoes all logic and upends the franchise's continuity, clearly for the sole purpose of setting up future spinoffs. Sadly, the action isn't even good enough to make up for any of that.

This movie was also shot with like seven different cameras, so the aspect ratio is always shifting. It's incredibly annoying. All of the charm this concept once had is gone, and the only hope of getting any of it back is to completely reboot the series, or to prevent Michael Bay from having any creative input moving forward.