Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) by Mitch S — 07 Oct 2017

After trying to defend the franchise to others despite it's dwindling reviews with each subsequent release, I may need to cut my losses here. While it holds the same visual wonderment as the previous installments, the scripts and plot seem to get worse and worse each time.

With a 2.5 hour runtime, I don't think I should feel this lost. Characters seemed to disappear without a thought, many lines were so tacky they almost seemed like outtakes, and the constant bombardment of bigger and bigger explosions and machines finally reached its peak only to set up a 3-minute ending of plot holes and leave a slough of questions.

I'm still offering 2 stars of 5 simply because the visual aspect of the film and the scale of the destruction was on par. Despite that, this 150-minute look into Michael Bay's vault of recycled car commercials is not something I'm going to be pushing my friends or family to see.