Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) by Jalumbi — 19 Jul 2017

The fifth film represents Transformers at its lowest. In this mess of a movie, none characterisation exists, and all characters attain a point where they anoy. The death of Anthony Hopkins actually releavs the spectator from a pain to watch.

Pity that an excellent veteran actor sells himself to **** Mark Wahlberg's performance is maybe his worst, as well as the rest of the actors. Now let's talk about the plot. There is none. It feels like a cheap reboot(although it costed 260 million dollars in its making) of the fourth last films, and feels even like a parody of those and Bay's filmography in general.

Your brain tries in vain to understand between hours of exposition and scathological humour that makes a cacophony of sounds, between bad jokes of strippers and sex. Although this is redeemed by the always beautiful score from Steve Jablonsky.

Dialogue feels forced, as well as the story, which doesn't flow at all. Optimus Prime, as well as the other transformers, are totally secondary and doesn't feel like characters, and scarcely appear. Their dialogue makes them look like idiot children, and the grandiloquent sentences of Optimus Prime are forced and clichéd.

There is a surprising little amount of action in this one, and when there is, it lasts little and is nauseating, except for some decent ones with Optimus Prime and an incredible one at the beginning. Transformers 5 is the worst in the series.

It gains points, though, for its feast-of-the-eye special effects, Cogman's character, which is maybe the best idea they had for the sake of this **** piece of **** and some of the mythology that takes place in the Middle Ages.