Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) by Ben T — 19 Nov 2017

Transformers: The Last Knight is a terrible blockbuster that fails to entertain or excite but to be honest it's completely expected at this point. This is the fifth movie in this franchise, where the quality ranges from bad to terrible.

This film didn't anger me as I had absolutely no expectation going in but I still think this is an awful feature. You can really just copy and paste all the complaints from the previous movies to this one.

It's obnoxiously long, unfunny, full of boring and incoherent action, terrible acting and still crammed full of dreadful racist and sexist 'humour'. The previous movies had at least some good cinematography but here it's just awful.

There's an over reliance on hand held camera work, meaning the action scenes are difficult to see and visually sickening. The film also has a constantly changing aspect ratio that is so jarring. It's not like in a Christopher Nolan film where the aspect ratio changes between the action sequences shot in IMAX and the conversation scenes shot on regular film.

Here the aspect ratio randomly changes between scenes and it's so distracting. This film is honestly so boring, it should be entertaining as it's full of lots of buzzard elements such as Stanley Tucci playing a drunk Merlin or an action scene taking place in World War 2.

The cast all look bored and give bad performances except for the saving grace of the film, Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins is an award winning actor and arguably one of the all time greats, here he gives an over the top and frankly embarrassing performance that is actually hilarious to watch.

He so clearly doesn't care it's funny and has the funniest scene in the movie where he tells a man to 'move his fat ass' off of a submarine. The film also admittedly has some good visuals but as far as positives that's really it.

This is an utterly awful film, it's badly made and incredibly formulaic and will only appeal to the most hardcore of fans. I also have to mention that I don't understand how Michael Bay doesn't get in more trouble for the racial stereotypes and objectification of women in these movies, it is honestly shocking and completely puts me off the guy and these movies.

The marketing for this movie that shows it off as a film where Optimus Prime is the villain is a blatant lie. Prime features in the film for maybe 10 minutes, has a short fight with Bumblebee that finishes with a moment almost as dumb as the Martha line from Batman v Superman.

This is a really just an awful movie and it is an absolute crime it made more money than a great blockbuster like War for the Planet of the Apes. I do not recommend this movie to anyone and I think this franchise needs to stop.

Truly awful in nearly all regards save for Hopkin's so bad it's good performance. D-.