Review of Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) by Roy%20 B — 25 Jul 2017

Ok first of all enough of this toy advert nonsense, I know it's the trendy "intelligent" thing to spout off but think about it, the film makes megabucks at the box office, do you seriously think they care about selling toys that much. Even if the original concept was thought up by a toy company it's still a fantastic idea which captured the imaginations of millions of children and it's complete snobbery to discount it on this basis, do you think Stan Lee did what he did for the good of the human race, no he did it to sell comics (and toys).

Out of the five films this was my favourite by far, loved the first one, thought the next three were ok but this one is truly amazing. I can appreciate there is a lot to take in and it's very fast paced but that only made me want to go and see it again to register everything. The special effects are mind blowing, the level of detail is truly incredible and the 3d is the best I've seen by miles. The acting is of a high standard, I particularly enjoyed the repartee between John Turturro and Anthony Hopkins and also Hopkins and Cogman (oh and people saying he was a C3po rip off are kind of ignoring the fact that it's alluded to in a tongue in cheek way and seriously if you think Star Wars was the first thing to feature a subservient human shaped robot then you need to educate yourselves). Granted there are some very cheesy lines and some pointless ones (at one point Lennox says "it's a huge alien ship" when we already know that and it's blatantly obvious, a shot of him and the sub crew looking aghast would have done) and I don't understand how Bumblebee gets to England with Cade but those are only very minor issues. There are some genuinely funny parts and some great rousing speeches by Optimus (yes he does say "I am Optimus Prime" a lot but he is Optimus Prime and anyone well versed in Transformers will know that that's what he generally does). It's not Magnolia or Lost In Translation (which to be honest I found ridiculously over rated but I guess were cool to say you liked) but it's not supposed to be, it's a film about giant alien robots fighting each other, I adore this film (surprisingly more than Star Wars and that runs through my dna).